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Joe: Stress Assessment and Management

Abstract

Stress can increase the risk of various diseases, exacerbate many medical disorders, and change healthy lifestyle behaviors. Therefore, effective management of stress is essential to decreasevulnerability to illnesses and to improve the quality of life. There is considerable evidence that mind-body interventions such as relaxation, meditation, imaginary technique, cognitive-behavior therapy, and biofeedback can be used as effective adjunctive therapy to conventional medical treatment for a number of medical disorders. The author will introduce the principles of stress management and briefly overview stress management methods and techniques.

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