Despite both the recent flourishing of the health psychology field and the long history of stress research, there have been relatively few attempts to examine the stress phenomenon within a broader framework. This is what Dean Bartlett's accessible and authoritative book aims to achieve. He offers a comprehensive overview of the stress phenomenon from a biopsychosocial perspective and it will be invaluable to students of health psychology and also to professionals including those in the fields of medicine, occupational psychology and the health professions.