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Coping with Life Stress: The Indian Experience
Author(s): Meena Hariharan (Author), Radhanath Rath (Author)
- Publisher: Sage India
- Publication Date: 16 January 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 292 pages
- ISBN-10: 0761936556
- ISBN-13: 9780761936558
Book Description
This volume provides useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping under varying internal and external conditions. Analysis of Indian cases with contrasts from western culture explains the role culture plays in the coping strategy.
The interactive exercises included could be used as tools for diagnosis along with practical suggestions for stress management and coping for the readers.
Editorial Reviews
Review
In this book, the authors have not only provided the theoretical underpinning of the phenomenon of stress and coping with it, but through their analysis of several case-reports drive home the fact that there cannot be any single unitary global explanation, as the perception of stress and modalities of coping with it vary across cultures and societies. Their insights into the Indian experience are valuable and highly rewarding.
— Current Science
The book provides several useful theoretical and practical inputs on effective coping under varying internal and external conditions. The Indian cases and their pedagogical analysis with contrasts drawn with the western culture describe the significance of the contribution of culture in coping strategy. The interactive exercises included could be used as diagnostic tools for the readers. The suggestions for stress management and coping are included to help the readers in effective coping.
— Times of India
This book provides a new perspective to the theories of stress and coping
— Deccan Herald
About the Author
Professor Hariharan has been working in the area of behavioural cardiology for more than a decade and resilience studies for more than three decades. Her work mainly concentrates on patients with hypertension and those who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Her research in the area includes various interventions and their impact on cardiac health, quality of doctor–patient communication and ICU trauma. She has designed intervention packages for CABG patients and standardized scales for psychosocial assessment of cardiac patients, measurement of quality of doctor–patient communication and adolescent well-being to mention a few. She along with her team evolved the synergy model of resilience, which took a holistic perspective of resilience and later developed the resilience test battery to measure resilience. Her innovations in research include using children as change agents in the management of adult hypertension.
Apart from behavioural cardiology, Professor Hariharan is sensitive to the changing sociocultural scenario in the country and its impact on family relationships. She has initiated a study on children’s understanding of parents on various dimensions. Her attempt is to reinvent the Indian family and cultural values, which have been the stronghold of Indian culture. As a part of this endeavour, she addresses parents, teachers and children on these issues.
Professor Hariharan has published nearly 100 research articles and 3 books. She has completed several projects funded by national and international agencies.
The Association of Health Psychologists was started with her initiative. She is the editor of the
Journal of Health Studies published by the association.She has three decades of teaching experience, has guided many PhDs and attended and organized a number of national and international seminars.
Radhanath Rath is the Founder Professor of Centre for Advanced Studies in Psychology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He has also been a National Fellow in Psychology and Social Sciences, 1981. He has taught in the capacity of a Visiting Professor at Concordia University, Canada; Birmingham University, UK, and Malmo University, Sweden. He has been the past-president of the Psychology Section of the Indian Science Congress, as also the chairperson of the International Cross-cultural Psychology Conference, 1981. A recipient of several national and international awards, he has several publications to his credit.
