Stress is a major concern in medicine, and health promotion is its first line of defense. Facets of resiliency, salutogenesis, self-care, and other known—or assumed—stress management skills are now incorporated into health promotion, preventive medicine, and primary care. Research in this area is evolving and focuses on disease control and clinical outcomes, relapse prevention, stress-resilient or healthy life styles, and aspects of subjective or psychosocial well-being (i.e., quality of life).

We invite investigators to contribute original research or review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand the molecular, physiological, neurobiological, and, particularly, clinical factors that underlie stress and stress management programs or related mind-body interventions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Clinical investigation of cognitive behavioral, mindfulness-based, and mind-body medical interventions, incorporating CAM or self-care procedures to reduce stress or better deal with its effects and outcomes in primary care, including communal and occupational health
• Describing concepts of health promotion, resiliency, and salutogenesis and discussing their relevance for primary care
• Identifying further settings and areas where mind-body medical skills could be applied
• Discussing methodology and modern scientific means to measure stress, its modification, including life-style interventions, and an overall association with the field of general practice and primary care
• Discussing and reviewing the modern “burn-out” phenomenon and evaluating CAM and the mind-body interventions that pretend to ameliorate (or prevent) it
• Describing and examining practical means and technical aspects of “easy access” (i.e., low-threshold) stress management applications, e.g., in primary care
• Correlating aspects of stress and stress reduction (from a primary care perspective) to the overarching field of stress as a social and biological phenomenon, and its significance in modern societies and medicine, even including happiness and flourishing research

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