This is the first comprehensive Handbook to examine the various models of stress, coping, and health and their relevance to nursing and related health fields. No other volume provides a compendium of key issues in stress and coping for the nursing and allied health professions. Continuing on a text that has been highly-praised for its analysis and critique of existing models and its discussion of new research surrounding self-regulation and stress, this Second Edition continues to provide a critical analysis of the field while providing cutting-edge research. The authors assemble a team of expert practitioners and scholars in the field to present the broad range of issues that relate to stress and health such as response-oriented stress; stimulus-oriented stress; stress, coping, and health in children; family health; beliefs and cultural attitudes; and more.