Comparing How To Deal With Stress By Stephen Palmer And Cary Cooper

How to Deal with Stress is a Self Help book by Stephen Palmer and Cary Cooper designed to offer tips, steps, and insight on practicing the moderation of “stress” in any ideal situation. The authors incorporate questionnaires to accompany the book’s reading which assess the reader’s abilities to cope in stressful scenarios and inquires about the biological process of the human body producing and reacting to stress. The book’s ability to provide knowledge and guidance to the reader is adequate in that it makes thinking thoroughly towards any stressful action or event efficient and substantial. The book is clear and concise with word choice, and ideas flow smoothly through each page. It promises rewards that are realistic, but precautionary, as it is not a guarantee the reader will find solutions after reading through the self-help book. The authors provide outside sources and personal experiences as examples when

Brief points are made on doing or consuming certain things that would prove advantageous or disadvantageous to stress management and personal health in general. Other than being a self-help book, it can also be seen as a book filled with life tips relative to physical and mental health and how to maintain the “good” in life. Another info-tip segment in the book includes: “Saturated Fats. A number of products contain sorts of saturated fat that can lead to heart disease, including cheese, milk, lard, hard margarine and butter. The fatty sections of pork, lamb and beef also contain high levels of saturated fats” (Palmer, 126). Again, information that is not necessarily “self-help” but rather a tip on eating right and runs off topic from “How to Deal With Stress.” If the book were to be rated, it deserves 3 out of 5 stars for being average and unnecessary as solutions and tips in the book can be searched online through