`The authors are highly experienced and clearly competent in this area of work, and convey an easy confidence in their methods. Pat Milner and Stephen Palmer′s book is a good buy… a valuable and carefully-crafted book, a wealth of ingenious stress-reduction strategies that made me feel better without having to see an actual therapist′ - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

This integrative problem-focused counsellor′s approach to dilemmas helps the client increase their ability to cope with, or develop ways of reducing, the demands of a situation.


This work looks at both management and occupational aspects of stress counselling, and also focuses on issues of research and evaluation. It includes coverage of the biological aspects of stress and rational emotive behaviour, as well as therapeutic approaches to stress counselling.