Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifying Stress -- The Origin of "Stress" -- Understanding Stress: Characteristics and Caveats -- Stress Signals -- Different Kinds of Stress -- Health Risk Assessment -- Environmental Stress -- Family Stress -- Resilience in Children -- The Role of Stress in Alcohol Use, Alcoholism Treatment, and Relapse -- Does Cigarette Smoking Cause Stress? -- Drug Addiction and Stress -- Today's Workplace -- Stress at Work -- Workplace Stress and Women's Health -- Work Stress and Alcohol Use -- Evaluating Caregiver Stress -- Social Inequality Harms Health -- Mental and Emotional Effects of Stress -- Emotions and Disease -- Stress and Personality -- Stress Intensifies Depression -- The Invisible Disease -- Co-Occurrence of Depression with Medical, Psychiatric, and Substance Abuse Disorders -- Women Are at Greater Risk for Depression Than Men -- Suicide and Depression -- Dealing with the Depths of Depression -- Panic Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment -- Trauma--Extreme or Life-Threatening Events -- Traumatic Stress -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters -- Stress-Related Substance Abuse -- Physical Effects of Stress -- The Biology of Stress -- The Brain and Stress -- Stress and Heart Disease -- Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure and Stress Hormones All Day -- Stress Affects the Immune System -- The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Compassion and Anger -- Psychological Stress and Cancer -- Stress and Ulcers--Just a Myth? -- Stress Is a Factor in Women's Health -- Stress and Multiple Sclerosis -- Stress Affects Skin Conditions -- The Role of Acute and Chronic Stress in Asthma Attacks in Children -- Alcohol, Aging, and the Stress Response -- Stress Management -- Coping with Everyday Problems -- Physical Activity, Weight Control, and Nutrition -- Managing Your Stress with Arthritis or Related Diseases -- Does Drinking Reduce Stress? -- Coping with Grief -- Spirituality and Stress Reduction -- EEG Biofeedback Training -- Music's Effects and Enhancements of the Emotional State -- Massage Therapy: Key Questions and Answers.

Also deals with the issue: does stress cause disease.