SOCIAL SCIENCES

Manage Your Stress

Overcoming Stress in the Modern World
by Leigh Devine
Shrand, Joe & Leigh Devine. Manage Your Stress: Overcoming Stress in the Modern World. St. Martin's/Griffin. Jul. 2012. c.288p. bibliog. ISBN 9780312605797. pap. $14.99. SELF-HELP
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Shrand (psychiatry, Harvard Medical Sch.) and independent producer, director, and writer Devine aim to help readers understand stress and how to manage and relieve it to live healthier lives. They first illustrate the value of stress in terms of survival, then use case studies to illustrate how chronic stress can affect health in a multitude of ways. In the second half of the book, they enumerate how readers can build healthy responses to stress: by getting enough exercise and sleep, meditating, assessing friendships, and obtaining professional help.
VERDICT While this isn't new information, the authors present realistic remedies for combating the stress that arises from common, everyday experiences, making this book applicable to a wide audience.
Reviewed by Deborah Bigelow , May 15, 2012
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