In a new workbook and self-help book, a psychiatrist tells how to be healthier by managing stress.

Paths to Health and Resilience, by Dr. Richard  H. Rahe, seeks to educate readers on how to increase their resilience in the face of illness.

With decades of experience as a psychiatrist working with returning prisoners of war and a former consultant to the United Nations regarding international war-crime victims, Rahe has dedicated his professional life to helping others cope with stress. Through his research and training, Rahe realized there was a direct correlation between the mind's stress level and the body's resilience to illness.

The book seeks to inform readers of five main forms of stress and five ways of coping. Through a series of exercises, readers calculate their degree of illness risk and resilience based on the main stress factors in their lives. According to Rahe, by identifying primary stress indicators and understanding how one responds to and copes with stress, one can learn the steps to take toward improved health and well-being.

Rahe aims for the book to increase readers' understanding of several potentially harmful dimensions of stress, as well as impart many tested strategies for coping with stress. Rahe believes that the balance between stress and coping in a person's life determines his risk of future illness.

Paths to Health and Resilience is available online at Amazon.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author
Dr. Richard H. Rahe received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine and spent 20 years in the Navy specializing in the psychological treatment of returned prisoners of war from Vietnam and Iran. After he retired from the Navy, Rahe spent time at the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Reno, where he refined his research on stress and coping. Most recently, Rahe joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, working with returning service men and women to help with their recoveries from combat stress.