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| Mind Body Seminar: October 1977 
STRESS MANAGEMENT
A Symposium
Sponsored by: The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge The University of California San Francisco
The International Institute of Stress, Montreal Everyone in the United States thinks they are under stress. Research on psychological and physiological aspects of stress abounds, yet the concept remains vague for many people. Physicians, psychologists, nurses, and other health professionals particularly must deal daily with the consequences of stress on their patients' conditions. They must evaluate what the patient defines as stressful and take measures to manage the patient's level of stress when necessary. Yet how does the health professional begin to understand what is stressful for the patient and evaluate therapies for stress management? This symposium presents some of the foremost clinical researchers working with stress today. They will describe the most recent techniques of stress management and lead workshops in their application, and discuss what underlies stress at psychological, interpersonal and physiological levels. This should enable clinicians to better understand and individualize management of stress-related disorders and the stress which accompanies all illness. FACULTY THOMAS BUDZYNSKI, Ph.D., B.S.E.E., is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Co-Director of the Biofeedback Laboratory at the University of Colorado Medical School at Denver. He is also Clinical Director of the Biofeedback Institute of Denver-a private clinic specialized in the use of biofeedback for stress-related disorders. His training is in Psychology and Electrical Engineering and his research with low-level surface EMG feedback techniques made electromyography practical for feedback. He is an associate editor of Biofeedback and Self-Regulation. MARDI J. HOROWITZ, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center at San Francisco, arid Director of the Psychotherapy Evaluation and Study Center at the Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. He practices psychiatry and his research involves the psychological responses to serious life events about which he has written a book, Stress-Response Syndromes. MYRA LEVINE, R.N., M.S.N., F.A.A.N., is Associate Professor of Nursing at Rush University, Chicago. She has studied and written extensively on the role and management of stress in nursing and related health-care professions. RAY H. ROSENMAN, M.D., is Associate Director of the Harold Brunn Institute Mt. Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, where he and his collaborators first described Type A behavior and its relation to coronary artery disease. He has published numerous research papers on this and is co-author of Type A Behavior and Your Heart. HANS SELYE, M.D., C.C., is Emeritus Professor of the University of Montreal, Faculty of Medicine and President of the International Institute of Stress, Montreal, Canada. He holds earned doctorates in medicine, philosophy, and science, numerous honorary degrees, and has been made a Companion of the Order of Canada, his country's highest honor. His major contribution is the description of the general adaptation or "stress" syndrome. The Stress Of Life, Stress Without Distress, and the recent The Stress of My Life are among the books and over 1,600 articles he has authored. CHARLES SWENCIONIS is Managing Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, a Research Associate at Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, and a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Stanford University. His research interests include cardiovascular self-control, effects of psychological exercises on physiology, and health psychology. CARL E. THORESEN, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and Psychology, Stanford University, where he is a member of the Boys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development at Stanford. He is also founder and Executive Director of Learning House in Palo Alto, a residential social learning treatment facility for disturbed children. Recent books include Counseling Methods, Behavioral Self-Control, Self-Control: Power to the Person, and How to Sleep Better. He is currently working on a large study applying behavioral techniques to coronary-prone behavior patterns. This course is co-chaired by Charles Swencionis, Hans Selye, and Lucy Ann Geiselman, Dean, University Extension, University of California San Francisco. THE PROGRAM Saturday Morning STRESS: An Introduction-
BEHAVIOR THERAPY IN STRESS MANAGEMENT-Carl Thoresen, Ph.D.
BIOFEEDBACK AND RELAXATION IN TREATMENT OF STRESS-RELATED DISORDERS-Thomas H. Budzynski, Ph.D., B.S.E.E.
Afternoon STRESS AND NURSING-
WORKSHOPS-Thoresen, Budzynski, Levine, Swencionis SUMMARY- Charles Swencionis
Sunday Morning INTRODUCTION-Charles Swencionis THE GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME-Hans Selye, M.D., C.C.
Afternoon PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO STRESS-Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D.
TYPE A BEHAVIOR AS A STRESS RESPONSE- Ray H. Rosenman, M.D.
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