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Stress: Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Stress
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2029
- Editor: George Fink
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 8 1 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 8 1 2 - 8
The effect of stress on our emotional and physical health can be devastating. There have been significant advances in our understanding of the influence stress has on inflammation… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe effect of stress on our emotional and physical health can be devastating. There have been significant advances in our understanding of the influence stress has on inflammation in the human body and also our immunity to various afflictions. This intense public, research, and clinical interest in stress is reflected in our edited Handbook of Stress series, each volume addressing a specific area within the field of stress edited by experts in each subfield. Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Stress, Volume 8 in the series, covers the influence psychosocial and socioeconomic factors have on stress. Integrated closely with new behavioral findings and relevance to human conditions, the concepts and data in this volume offer readers cutting-edge information. This volume is of prime interest to neuroscientists, clinicians, researchers, academics, and students in Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience, Biomedicine, Immunology, Endocrinology, Psychology, Psychiatry and some aspects of the Social Sciences including stress and its management in the workplace from a preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic perspective.
- Chapters offer impressive scope addressing the effect of psychosocial and socioeconomic factors on stress
- Includes rich illustrations with explanatory figures and tables
- Features chapters on crisis interventions, economic factors, and animal models of stress
- Integrates behavioral findings and relevance to human conditions
- Includes boxed call out sections that serve to explain key concepts and methods
- Allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole ten volume Stress handbook series
Primary market/audience: Neuroscientists, neuroendocrinologists, neurologists, neuroimmunologists, and researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, and post-doctoral fellows in neuroscience, psychology and the biomedical sciences
Childhood StressChild Physical AbuseChronic Social Stress: GR Sensitivity in LeukocytesCommunity StudiesCrowding StressCrime VictimsCrisis InterventionCultural Factors in StressCultural TransitionChildren of DivorceDomestic ViolenceEconomic Factors and StressEducation Levels and StressEmployee Assistance and CounselingEffects on Environmental StressHealth and Socioeconomic StatusIncome Levels and StressIndigenous SocietiesJob InsecurityMarital ConflictMarital Status and Health ProblemsMinorities and StressNeighborhood Stress and HealthPsychosocial Factors and StressQuality of LifeRacial Harassment/DiscriminationSchool Violence and BullyingSchool Stress and School Refusal BehaviorSocial CapitalSocial Networks and Social IsolationSocial Status and StressAnimal Models of Social StressSocial SupportTransport Related StressUnemployment, Stress, and HealthWork-Family BalanceWorkplace Stress
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2029
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128228111
- eBook ISBN: 9780128228128
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George Fink
Dr. Fink is Honorary Professor in the University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Formerly, he was Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Before returning to Melbourne in 2003, Dr. Fink was University Lecturer in Human Anatomy and Fellow in Physiology and Medicine at Brasenose College and the University of Oxford and served for nearly 20 years as CEO and Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh. He gained distinction through his seminal research discoveries in neuroendocrinology and psychopharmacology published in over 360 scientific papers. Dr. Fink served as President of the European Neuroendocrine Association. His distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Biological Society, Fellow of the Physiological Society, and Honorary Member of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Fink was Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh, delivered the inaugural Geoffrey Harris Prize Lecture of the British Physiological Society, and the Wolfson Lecture. In 1979 he was awarded the Royal Society - Israel Academy Exchange Fellowship which enabled him to spend a research year at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. In 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. His membership of learned societies includes Emeritus member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Endocrine Society and the Genetics Society of America.
Dr. Fink has edited several scientific books with Elsevier, including Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2011), and most notably the 4-volume second edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2007) on which this new Handbook of Stress series is based. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Stress (2000) which was awarded the 2001 British Medical Association commendation for its contribution to Mental Health. The first volume of his Handbook of Stress series, entitled “Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior”, received the BMA High Commendation in the Health and Social Care category as one of the top titles in its discipline.
Affiliations and expertise
Professorial Research Fellow and Hon Professor, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia