BOOK REVIEW

COPING WITH STRESS AT WORK

BY
JACQUELINE M ATKINSON
REVIEWED BY
AZEEM ANWAR KHAN LUGHMANI
140TH MMC 2
 PRESENTATION CONTENT
• ABOUT THE BOOK

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• OBJECTIVES

• CONTENTS OF BOOK

• COMMENTS

• CONCLUSION
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 ABOUT THE BOOK
Publisher:
THORSONS  The Country of origin is UK
PUBLISHING  Published in 1988
GROUP  Number of pages: 140
Northampton  Number of Sections: 03
shire,
 Number of Chapters: 13
England
 Language: English

HarperCollins  Published in 2006

Publishers  ISBN-10 : 0722530951
 ISBN-13 : 978-0722530955

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 ABOUT AUTHOR

Name: Jacqueline M Atkinson

Qualification:
PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hull
Present Status:
Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
Area of Contribution:
Mental health & Mental health law.
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 PUBLICATIONS

OTHER BOOKS
• Schizophrenia at Home: a guide to helping the
family

• Better Time Management

• The author has an index of 16, co-authored 58

publication(s) receiving 1634 citation(s).

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 OBJECTIVE

The objectives of coping with stress at work are

 To define stress and how it affects the life

 How to manage stress

 To discuss letting it go or to overcome the stress

 To show ways to handle the stress with different

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techniques.
 CONTENTS OF BOOK
Section I: Is Stress a Problem
1. Are you Stressed
2. Stress and Health

Section II: What causes stress?

3. Stress and life style
4. Stress and Personality
5. Stress at work
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 CONTENTS OF BOOK
Section III: Coping with Stress, Strategies and skills
6. Ineffective ways of coping
7. Staying Healthy
8. General principles of Coping and Changing
9. Managing Time
10. Communication
11. Relationships at work
12. Person-Job Fit
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13. Preventing Stress at Work
 SECTION I
1. ARE YOU STRESSED?

• Different Situations and Strategies

• Styles of stress
 Hard driving style
 Anxiety
 Helpless and Hopeless
 Depression
 Burn-out 10

• Positive aspects of stress

 SECTION I

2. STRESS AND HEALTH

• GAS (General Adoption Syndrome) Model

 Alarm Reaction (Fight or Flight Response)
 Resistance
 Exhaustion

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 SECTION II

3. STRESS AND LIFE STYLE

• Life Events
• Daily Events
• Belief and Attitude
• Social Support
• Environmental Stressor 12
 SECTION II
4. STRESS AND PERSONALITY
• Two types of personalities
 Type A
 Type B

Personality Chart

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96 84 72 60 48 36 24 12 0
 SECTION II
5. STRESS AT WORK
Physical Environment Job Characteristics Social/Cultural
(e.g. noise, overcrowding) (targets, little control) Environment
(competition)

External Pressures

Internal Pressures
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Physical Behavioral Cognitive Emotional
(Health) (Incompetency) (standard too high) (Sensitive)
 SECTION III

6. INEFFECTIVE WAYS OF COPING STRESS

• Smoking
• Alcohol
• Diet and Eating
• Over work

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 SECTION III

7. STAYING HEALTHY
• Exercise
• Sleep
• Relaxing
• Play
• Massage and Yoga
• Spiritual Beliefs 16
 SECTION III

8. GENERAL PRINCIPAL OF COPING AND

CHANGING
• Change
• Consequences of Action
• Problem solving skills
• Identify solution and consider solution
• Rehearsal
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 SECTION III

9. MANAGING TIME
• Keep time diary
• Know job demands
• Priorities
• Planning
• Dealing with interruptions
• Learn to say “NO” 18
 SECTION III

10. COMMUNICATION
• Social Skills
• Person Perception
• Chain of Communication
• Discussing or Fighting

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 SECTION III

11. RELATIONSHIP AT WORK

• Change involves others
• Roles
• Being a Boss
• Being a Subordinate
• Being a team member

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 SECTION III

12. PERSON-JOB FIT

• Person-Job fit can be improved by
 Selection
 Training
 Work Load

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 SECTION III

13. PREVENTING STRESS AT WORK

• THE INDIVIDUAL
 Job-fit person or make necessary adjustment
 Good attitude towards performance and job
 Change of Behavior
 Good social support network
 Be physically healthy 22

 Learn to relax
 COMMENTS
• The book not only covers identification and
rectification of stress but it has a very thorough
discussion of ways to effectively overcoming the
stress.
• If you are stressed, whether at work, at home, or in
your social life, you might find this book helpful.

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 COMMENTS
• The author has included plenty of charts and check
lists, as simple as going through lists of events that
might have taken place with you and checking off
“yes” or “no” as to whether or not they apply to
you.

• Others exercises help you to evaluate the levels of

stress in your life, your style of stress
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management, or how well you cope the stress.

 COMMENTS
• In my opinion, this is a very worthwhile book
for anyone who come across any stress
situation in any aspect of his/her life as it will
show the path to overcome that situation.

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 CONCLUSION
This book has method and procedures to cop with
STRESS, in such a way;
• Identifying your personal strengths and
weaknesses.
• Making a commitment to change your life,
• Coping with everyday stress,
• Developing positive communication techniques,
• Creating a personal responsibility assessment for
your thoughts and actions. 26
THANKS
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