SURVIVING JOB STRESS
By John B. Arden, Ph.D.
Career Press (2002)

Job stress has become a national obsession. Most of us think we have it, few know what to do about it. No wonder Newsweek, Time, and US News and World Reports have all run feature and cover stories on stress in the workplace. Every month or so the lead story on the evening news is about another worker who has "gone postal." Granted those are extreme cases, but 25% to 33% of workers report high job stress and, according to Information Week, job burnout is higher than ever been. Even if we’re not suffering ourselves, we all know people stressed out by their jobs, worn to a frazzle by too many faxes, e-mails, voice mails, pointless meetings and impossible work loads.

Many afflicted people turn to alcohol or drugs for "relief" from job stress, and most report from sleeplessness, tension, and preoccupation with work even when off duty. In recent years, mental health professionals are seeing increased numbers of patients suffering from job stress. Yet, most people will never seek professional treatment. Especially those who don’t—but even those who do—will find that SURVIVING JOB STRESS by Dr. John B. Arden offers invaluable help in recognizing, controlling, and living with job stress. Written in an easy-to-read style, this book offers practical and prescriptive advice. Each chapter includes vignettes of people with specific symptoms of job stress related to the chapter’s theme. Throughout, helpful charts and lists illustrate and sum up critical information on how to best adapt to job stress. Since job stress may intensify the progression of a disease and many medical conditions include symptoms that mimic stress, the book explores the interaction between job stress and diabetes, thyroid conditions, Meniere’s Disease, and other common medical problems.

Dr. Arden is the training director for psychology and social work for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Northern California, overseeing programs in 20 centers. He is chief psychologist at the Vallejo center, where he runs a program treating patients suffering from various types of job stress. In SURVIVING JOB STRESS he addresses all the major issues he has encountered in his program. Kaiser Permanente is the largest HMO in the U.S., operating in 11 states and the District of Columbia and serving almost 9,000.000 members. Each of its hundreds of medical centers has a health education department with a bookstore. The author is confident Kaiser Permanente will aggressively promote his book. Dr. Arden’s first book, Consciousness, Dreams, and Self (Psychosocial Press), was awarded the 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Award by Choice. His second book, Science, Theology, and Consciousness (Praeger), was nominated for the CTS award funded by the Templeton Foundation.

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