Title:

Coping with Stress

Publish Date:

May 2011

ISBN:

978 1 86168 582 7

Covering Ages:

16 to 18 years

Issue Description

Modern living provides plenty of opportunities to become stressed: from caring for a family to taking exams, managing your finances to meeting deadlines in the workplace. Indeed, a recent survey estimated that during 2008 and 2009, over 400,000 people in Britain experienced work-related stress that was making them unwell. What are stress and anxiety, and how can we learn to deal with them? Are stress sufferers often stigmatised? And what is the law relating to stress? This book looks at the issues surrounding stress and anxiety.

The information comes from a wide range of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper articles, features, magazine articles and surveys, literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.

Price:

£7.95

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Key Facts

• If you experience stress over a long period, or you have severe stress, you may develop other conditions as a result. (page 4)
  
  
• Three out of four men in Britain say they would not go to the GP if they were under stress as they would be afraid that the GP would think that they are ‘unbalanced’ or ‘neurotic’. (page 6)
  
  
• About one in every ten people will have troublesome anxiety or a phobia at some point in their lives. However, most of us never ask for treatment. (page 10)
  
  
• It is estimated that about 13.4 million working days are lost each year through anxiety and stress-related conditions, and stress-related illness costs employers in Great Britain more than £3.7 billion a year. (page 17)
  
  
• Money worries are the main concern of stressed-out Britons, according to the results of a poll which reveals that as many as 40 million adults admit to suffering from some form of regular anxiety. (page 21)
  
  
• There is now convincing evidence that prolonged periods of stress, including work-related stress, have an adverse effect on physical and mental health and well-being. (page 24)
  
  
• Under-25s are the most stressed age group overall and the most stressed about unemployment. (page 35)
  
  
• A study has shown that people who were regularly active in their spare time had less likelihood of being depressed and anxious. (page 37)

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Stress and Anxiety

Stress, Facts about stress, The stigma of stress, Work-related stress – signs and symptoms, Anxiety, panic and phobias, Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), Panic attacks.

Chapter 2 Causes of Stress

What makes you stressed?, Money worries top Britons’ stress lists, Stress, guilt and exhaustion ‘toxic mix’ for middle-class parents, Workplace stress, Summary of the law on stress at work, Common causes of stress at work, Stressed out? It could be in your genes.

Chapter 3 Learning to Cope

What can you do about stress?, British approach to dealing with stress runs risk of serious mental health problems, Anxiety eased by exercise, How to cope with the stress of student life.

Key Facts

Glossary

Index

Acknowledgements

Assignments

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