Description: This volume is designed to expand and update the theoretician, clinician, and researcher on the latest information related to ... stressful life events and their impact on our lives. Theoretical formulations and hypotheses, issues. and implications related to the validity and reliability of life stress measurement and its applications to both medical and mental health related concerns are addressed here.... Special attention is given to the individuals and how that individual functions within various life settings. This book views the person as both the producer of stress and a reactor to stress, and attempts to identify a variety of sources of stressful life experiences from within and beyond the individual's life space. -- Matthew J. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.

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