  Reaching Our Limit of Coping
'Daily events lead to fluctuating levels of stress for us all. Everyone has a 'threshold' for manageable stress and this may vary from day to day...'
This fast fact sheet provides both information about and a diagram of the stress threshold - how much we can handle and what we should do when we know we've reached that threshold.
This fact sheet is an ideal hand-out for patients, or tip-sheet for health care professionals during consultation with their patient.
Although intended for cancer patients, this fact sheet is equally relevant to other patients as well as health professionals more generally.
This fact sheet is sourced from Ausmed Publications' textbook: 'Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A health professional's guide to what to say and do', editors Dr Jemma Gilchrist & Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, (2008) chapter eight: 'Stress and Anxiety', by Dr Jemma Gilchrist.
Author: Dr Jemma Gilchrist
Dr Jemma Gilchrist is a senior clinical psychologist with clinical experience in psycho-oncology. Since 1999 she has worked in two separate tertiary oncology services providing psychosocial care to adults with a wide range of cancer diagnoses as well as their families and carers. Jemma has experience in educating other health professionals on the role of psychosocial support and interventions in the oncology setting. In addition she is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney and provides clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at master's level. She completed her doctorate in 1995 in the area of children's eyewitness memory, and has published in the areas of interviewing children about stressful events, the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and postnatal depression. She has longstanding interest in the impact and treatment of anxiety in the medically unwell.
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