Topic: Stress and Health.
Thesis statement:
Stress can impact you in many ways, not just mentally but physically, and can have a significant negative effect on your body, mind, relationships, happiness, work, and your overall health and well-being. While a little bit of stress can be healthy, it can safely push you to put in more effort in both your personal and professional life, and likely won’t cause any severe problems, being stressed out all the time or feeling huge bouts of stress regularly, is detrimental to your health.
Search strategy and evaluation of resources:
My search starts looking at EBSCO eBook collection, Managing Stress: From Theory to Application, to have a concept of how to handle stress.
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The information on the
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The domains addressed within the text include sport psychology, clinical psychology, organizational psychology, developmental psychology, police psychology and health psychology.
Relevance & Accuracy:
Major life events are relatively infrequent in the life of any individual. Events such as losing things, traffic congestion, being late for appointments, etc. are relatively minor in severity but their number and frequency have the potential to affect health. Kanner et al. (1997).
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Relevance & Accuracy (cont...):
Research began to show how emotional support from health professionals could help alleviate the consequences for those whose social networks were ineffective (Auerbach and Kilmann, 1997).
Authority:
The responsible of this information is Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Currency:
This book was published in the eBook in 2011.
Purpose:
This book brings together related issues regarding the application of theory to practice into a single source.
Search strategy and evaluation of
Jones, F, Bright, J, Clow, A (2001). Stress: myth, theory and research. Essex: Pearson Education Limited. p. 12.
Specific Purpose Statement: The audience will learn what causes stress and how stress can affect their health, and how they can manage their everyday stress with different techniques.
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