Preventive Stress Management in Organizations

Quick (organizational behavior, U. of Texas at Arlington) et al. offer psychologists who work with leaders and organizations, as well as organizational members, a framework called preventive stress management, which is rooted in public health, draws on positive psychology and strengths-based interventions, incorporates the concept of eustress, or good stress, and focuses on the way an individual's assumption of personal responsibility interacts with groups and organizations in the process of adapting to stress and stressful events. They detail the stress process, its organizational causes and origins, specific vulnerability and strength factors that can protect an individual, positive and negative individual and organizational consequences, measurement and assessment, the theory of preventive stress management, and types of interventions, including new ones such as an organizational health center. This edition updates material with current research, science, and theory; emphasizes the positive side of the stress message; and moves some elements, such as the index of assessment instruments and resources, to a website. It adds information on the tend-and-befriend response of women, bullying and incivility, and positive psychology, positive organizational behavior, and positive organizational scholarship. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)