Anxiety & Stress Handbook & Resource Guide
This new title is designed to bring together necessary and valuable information for anyone struggling with anxiety – one of the most common mental health illnesses in the United States -- including family and friends of individuals who are living with anxiety, stress, and related mental health issues. For those providing care and support to individuals with anxiety, this resource provides easy-to-understand and helpful information and connects readers to many sources of support. Anxiety & Stress Handbook & Resource Guide offers reports and statistics, as well as discussions about prevention, treatment, and outcomes. It includes details on the major types of anxiety, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more.
- Studies & Statistics About Anxiety and Stress: This four-color section is more than 300 pages and includes detailed reports, maps, graphs and tables from sources such as the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Coverage is current, comprehensive, and discusses the prevalence of anxiety, causes, treatments, and co-existing conditions.
- Anxiety & Mental Health Resources: This section includes several chapters, with resources on anxiety and stress specifically, and mental health generally. Each chapter begins with an informative description, and goes on to include a variety of resources for patients, their families and caregivers.
- Complications of Anxiety: This section details numerous health conditions that can occur as a result of untreated, serious anxiety and stress, including effects on the central nervous system, digestive system, and cardiovascular, and immune systems.
- Additional sections include Glossary, Entry Index, and Geographic Index.
The Anxiety & Stress Handbook & Resource Guide is a necessary reference for public and academic libraries, as well as health care collections, providing information crucial to those living with anxiety, their broader support network, case workers, social workers, and other health care providers.
