Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Panic - A Five Areas Approach
Based on the highly successful Overcoming Anxiety, Overcoming Stress, Worry, Panic and Phobias presents a series of self-help workbooks for use in self-assessing and managing the symptoms of these conditions, with support from a health care professional. This book uses the clear, user-friendly format that is associated with the 'Overcoming...' series. The interactive questions and worksheets are a key feature of the series and they are plentiful and appropriate in this new title.
Most fears are learned. Some of these are useful, e.g., the fear of touching a hot saucepan. Other fears appear to not be useful; such fears are considered irrational. We know them as phobias. A phobia is an anxiety about a person, place or thing, which: - Is out of proportion to any actual danger - Can not be reasoned or explained away - Appears silly to the sufferer, but - Can not be voluntarily controlled, and - leads to avoidance of what is feared.
Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery - A Nursing Perspective
The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical patients and has been recognised as such for many decades. However, no formal nursing intervention currently exists to support patients during this acute phase.
This is the first large-scale investigation on how multilinguals feel about their languages and use them to communicate emotion. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, Jean-Marc Dewaele looks at the factors that affect multilinguals' self-perceived competence, attitudes, communicative anxiety, language choice and code-switching when expressing feelings, anger and when swearing. Nearly 1,600 multilinguals from all over the world participated in the research.
On Anxiety takes a fascinating, psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic stricken culture and into anxious minds, asking who and what is responsible. Putting anxiety on the couch, Renata Salecl asks some much-needed questions: Is anxiety about the absence of authority or too much of it? Do the media report anxiety or create it? Are drugs a cure for anxiety or its cause? Is anxiety about being yourself or someone else, and is anxiety really the ultimate obstacle to happiness?
