[NIFL-AALPD:885] RE: reducing stress

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Hello Marsha, David, Eileen, Catherine, Janet, and all who replied off-list:

Thank you *so much* for all of these great resources!!  Wow, there is a wealth 
of information here that I really look forward to diving into.  Those of you 
who provided me phone numbers, I will reach out to these contacts either 
tomorrow or immediately after the holidays.

Thanks again for the heads up.

All my best,

Jackie Taylor
UT Center for Literacy Studies


>===== Original Message From nifl-aalpd@nifl.gov =====
>Hello.  I am responding to Eileen's message.  You are correct. There is a
>large body of research on work stress done by Dr. Robert Karasek and his
>colleagues showing that jobs with high pyschological demands and low control
>place workers at higher risk for heart disease. If you want a lay person's
>description of the research, contact Dr. Paul Landsbergis at the Dept. of
>Commuity Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1043, Room 110 D, New
>York, NY 10028. He is one of Karasek's  collaborators.
>
>Some very good background material and workshop activities on stress
>reduction was produced in the early '90s by Marcia Calicchia, at Cornell
>University, School of Industrial Labor Relations, in Albany, NY.   The
>material still holds up. Try her at Cornell Univ., NYSSILR, 90 State Street,
>Suite 600, Albany, NY  12207.



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