Calm and Confident Under Stress: The Stress Competence Book: Recognize, Understand, Manage Stress

ISBN-13: 9783662644393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 212 str.

Gert Kaluza

Spis treści

Foreword.- I Recognize and understand stress: Stress - what is it actually? An introduction - Physical stress reactions and the consequences for health - What stresses us - Stressors in work and everyday life - Personal stress intensifiers - How we put ourselves under stress - II Overcoming stress: What can we do? - An overview of the three pillars of stress competence - Actively meeting requirements - Instrumental stress competence - Developing beneficial thoughts and attitudes - Mental stress competence - Creating balance - Regenerative stress competence - For acute cases: The 4-A strategy - Your own path - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Gert Kaluza is a psychological psychotherapist and works as a trainer, coach and author in the field of individual and company health promotion. After more than 20 years of work at various universities, he founded his own advanced education and training institute, the GKM Institute for Health Psychology, in 2002. Focus magazine recommended him back in 1994 as one of the best stress management trainers in Germany. In 1998 he received the 1st prize of the Continentale Förderpreis für Naturheilkunde.

Blurb

"Stressed!" - "No time!" - "I don't know where my head is!"

Stress is familiar to almost everyone, and many suffer the negative consequences of constant stress. So what to do? This book shows a variety of possible courses of action and encourages you to find your own way to a calm and healthy way of dealing with stress at work and in everyday life. It is written for people suffering from stress to help themselves and as a comprehensible companion reading for stress management courses or in the context of a consultation, for personnel managers and executives in business and administration, for consultants and therapists who support stressed clients, and for everyone who wants to develop their personal stress competence.

From the contents

Instrumental stress competence: making everyday life less stressful, actively meeting demands - Mental stress competence: developing beneficial attitudes and evaluations - Regenerative stress competence: creating balance, relaxing and recovering - With checklists, exercises and numerous tips.

The author

Prof. Dr. Gert Kaluza is a psychological psychotherapist and works as a trainer, coach and author in the field of individual and workplace health promotion. After working at various universities for over 20 years, he founded his own continuing education and training institute, the GKM Institute for Health Psychology, in 2002.

This book is a translation of the original German 7th edition “Gelassen und sicher im Stress” by Gert Kaluza, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.