Part I Stress Reactivity and Health
Chapter 1 Stress: Historical Approaches to Allostasis
Tori Humiston and Amy Hughes Lansing
Chapter 2 The Neurobiology of Stress
Olena Kleshchova and Mariann R. Weierich
Chapter 3 The Tend and Befriend Theory of Stress: Understanding the Biological, Evolutionary and Psychosocial Aspects of the Female Stress Response
Laura Cohen and Amy Hughes Lansing
Chapter 4 Psychoneuroimmunology: How Chronic Stress Makes Us Sick
Andrew W. Manigault and Peggy M. Zoccola
Chapter 5 The Roles of Appraisal and Perception in Stress Responses, and Leveraging Appraisals and Mindsets to Improve Stress Responses
Jeremy P. Jamieson and Emily J. Hangen
Part II Mindfulness, Stress Reduction, and Mechanisms of Change
Chapter 6 Historical Origins and Psychological Models of Mindfulness
Michael Gordon, Selma A. Quist-Møller, and Shauna Shapiro
Chapter 7 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Medical Conditions
Linda E. Carlson, Kirsti Toivonen, Michelle Flynn, Julie Deleemans, Katherine-Anne Piedalue, Utkarsh Subnis, Devesh Oberoi, Michaela Patton, Hassan Pirbhai, and Mohamad Baydoun
Chapter 8 Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Traumatic Stress
Daniel Szoke, Asha Putnam, and Holly Hazlett-Stevens
Chapter 9 Mindfulness-based Interventions for Clinical Anxiety and Depression Holly Hazlett-Stevens
Chapter 10 Neurobiology of Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Philip A. Desormeau and Norman A. S. Farb
About the Author: Holly Hazlett-Stevens received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1999. Under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas D. Borkovec, she studied the nature of anxiety and worry as well as cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. From 1999-2001, Dr. Hazlett-Stevens was a post-doctoral fellow at the Anxiety Disorders Research Center in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) under the mentorship of Dr. Michelle Craske. There she received training in cognitive behavioral treatment for panic disorder, coordinated panic disorder intervention research projects, and continued her own program of anxiety and worry research.
In 2002, Dr. Hazlett-Stevens joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She has published over 50 scholarly research articles and book chapters and authored two books, Women Who Worry Too Much and Psychological Approaches to Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She also co-authored New Directions in Progressive Relaxation Training with Douglas A. Bernstein and Thomas D. Borkovec, and the updated Progressive Relaxation Training: A Guide for Practitioners, Students, and Researchers with Douglas A. Bernstein.
Since 2010, Dr. Hazlett-Stevens attended a series of intensive professional training programs in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instruction from the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. She received over 260 hours of professional education in MBSR instruction and is a certified MBSR instructor. Dr. Hazlett-Stevens currently conducts research examining the effects of MBSR, the nature of mindfulness, and how mindfulness training reduces stress and anxiety while improving health and well-being.
