Annotated Bibliography Adrian DeValdivielso

Anisman, Hymie. Stress and Your Health: from Vulnerability to Resilience. Hoboken, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2015.

This book deals with where stress can come from and way on how it can be dealt with to
minimize the impact on ones health, as well as describe any possible health effects of the
stress. Stress and Your Health: from Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-
based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress
and stress-related illnesses. This book seems reliable, since the author has several
published books on psychological illnesses and mental health, generally stemming from
stress. The research is more than likely objective as it is given in a third-person
perspective. The author, Hymie Anisman, has a doctorate and researches behavioural
neuroscience at the Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada, qualifying him in this subject
as a reliable source and making this a scholarly source. This source will help support the
affirmation on certain effects of stress on ones health. Due to its relevance to the
research topic, this source is helpful, and isnt too scholarly for me to understand. This
source is slightly too general in the sense that it covers a wider base of information than
needed (i.e. many different stress sources), but is still specific enough to be useful.

Caplan, Gerald. Loss, Stress, and Mental Health. Community Mental Health Journal, vol. 26,
no. 1, 1990, pp. 2748.

The article Loss, Stress, and Mental Health explores how attachment leads to distress
when coupled with loss, and how those feelings of distress lead to loss of problem
solving abilities and cognitive skills. This is a process which is described by Caplan in
three steps. First, the severance of the relationships causes pain. Second, the continued
absence of the relationship prolongs suffering. And lastly, the ways in which this extreme
destress and prolonged suffering lead to loss of mental capacity in the form of logic-
based skills. Many different mental ailments and disorders which are the consequences of
loss and stress are outlined as well as the recuperative efforts made by the individual to
heal their situation of prolonged depression due to loss. This source seems trustworthy
because the author is not only qualified to write on the subject, but devises a clever
pathway through which he theorizes the stages of loss and labels them in junction with
their consequences. The data is theoretical and conceptualized, which leaves room for
biases, but also holds integrity within its logic. The ailments caused by loss and stress are
indeed well documented and explained to their full extent as well as connected back to
stress and loss. Being very theoretical, the article fits in to the research, but in a minor
way. Though it will more than likely be a minor resource it may still prove to be very
helpful as it is specific on the aspect of the different possible remedies to cope with stress.
Couch, Kenneth A., Mary C. Daly, and Julie M Zissimopoulos. Lifecycle Events and Their
Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in Health. Stanford, CA,
Stanford Economics and Finance, 2013.

In Life Cycle Events and Their Consequences: Job Loss, Family Change, and Declines in
Health several scholarly experts convene to research the ways in which unforeseen life
events affect economic welfare. This edition explores the many facets in which job loss,
unexpected health change, and familial atmosphere modification can impact ones
wellbeing. These three specific examples are studied in junction not because of their
relativity, but due to the fact that often these three events occur all during the same time.
This book gives an overview of how these unfortunately simultaneously occurring
events affect life course. This source seems to be reliable because it contains the research
of several highly-qualified individuals. However, this data is mainly based upon the
occurrence of job loss, family change, and health declination being relative. The data
found may not be sound outside of those parameters. The facts and research done were
conclusive, and therefore not concrete. There is indeed room for biases within this book,
however I believe few if any are involved in the text. This source is scholarly and
trustworthy. This is a helpful source, as it deals with how losing a family member can
impact ones own health, tying back to my research question. The source is scholarly and
is as specific as possible while generalising the tragedy that is losing a family member.

MacDonald, Geoff, and Lauri A. Jensen-Campbell. Social Pain: Neuropsychological and Health
Implications of Loss and Exclusion. Washington, DC, American Psychological Associa-
tion, 2011.

Social pain is the experience of pain because of social rejection or loss, for example,
rejection from a social group, bullying, or the loss of a loved one. Now, research shows
that social pain results from the stimulation of certain factors in physical pain systems.
Although social, health, clinical, and developmental psychologists have each investigated
different aspects of social pain, recent studies provide a unifying framework for
integrative research. This volume offers the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary
exploration of social pain. The first part of the book scrutinises the subject from a
neuroscience perspective, outlining the evolutionary basis of social pain and tracing the
genetic, neurological, and physiological underpinnings of the phenomenon. The second
section explores the consequences of social pain for functioning in social relationships;
contributions examine the influence of painkillers on social emotions, the ability to relive
past social hurts, and the relation of social pain to experiences of intimacy. The last part
of the book assesses social pain from a biopsychosocial perspective in its consideration of
the health implications of social pain, outlining the role of stress in social pain and the
potential long-term health consequences of bullying. The book concludes with an
integrative review of these diverse perspectives. The source is reliable since the author
has a doctorate in the related field. This source is written in a scholarly manner and is
 objective, fitting perfectly into my research. It is a helpful source that specifies on the
effects of being secluded from society.
Montada, Leo, Sigrun-Heide Filipp, and Melvin J. Lerner. Life Crises and Experiences of Loss in
Adulthood. Hillsdale, L. Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

Designed to prevent developmental psychological myths pertaining to life crises, this

collection questions, on an empirical basis, the adequacy of several widespread
generalizations. At the same time its contributors attempt to draw paths to
conceptualizations and theories in general psychology and social psychology which
promise to be helpful in analysing and interpreting phenomena in the field of life crises.
Life Crises and Experiences of Loss in Adulthood sets forth a reformulated idea of social
support by presenting a model which references the major sectors of common social
relationships in correspondence to their potential impact on the stress and illness process.
This hypothesized perspective possibly explains the inconsistency of general research
which would aid in overcoming the failures within future investigations. In the beginning,
the horticulture of social relationships is summarized. Next, the concepts which pair
social relationships with the illness process are analysed. Finally, research is reported to
either prove or disprove the correlations between social factors and mental illness. This
source seems to be reliable because it utilizes facts and models which reference
trustworthy data. It is a scholarly work in which the author is seasoned and professional,
as well as avoids fallacies and assumptions. All theorized knowledge and hypotheses are
qualitative and logically concluded. It is not biased, but instead objective in its findings.
It is free of opinionated data and works solely on facts. Being fact-based, the source is
scholarly, and, also, is specific, fitting in to my research.

Steptoe, Andrew, and A. Appels. Stress, Personal Control and Health. Chichester, Wiley, 1989.

The aim of the present volume is to bring together contributors with different
perspectives on stress, personal control and health. This provides an opportunity for
assessing the similarities and differences in the way in which control is invoked in a
range of health-relevant issues. The current state of knowledge is summarized and
opportunities for new integrative developments in research are highlighted. The book has
been divided into three major sections, preceded by an introductory chapter and followed
by a postscript. These sections reflect three broad areas in which research on control has
been prominent. The first part is entitled 'Occupational aspects,' and emphases the role of
control in job settings, and its influence on health. The second segment, titled 'The
clinical perspective,' features the relationship of control with clinical problems such as
pain, emotional disorders, heart disease and coping with stressful medical procedures.
Finally, the third section, 'Mechanisms relating stress with control,' explains the pathways
through which control affects behaviour and psychobiological responses from an
experimental perspective. The source seems a bit dated, but is still relevant in terms of the
foundation of psychological information; its a helpful source. The book is written in a
scholarly/self-help manner and the author, Andrew Steptoe, is a professor of psychology
at the University of California at San Francisco. This source is helpful and is scholarly,
fitting into my research smoothly with its specificity on self-control of stress and
managing it.