Relevant lines of inquiry would include those necessary to provide an overview of the CFO's responsibilities and her impression of their operational importance to the company; those necessary to quantify the amount of external stress caused by the adoption and the substance abuse problems of her son; and those designed to identify the source of her egocentric sentiments (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2007) about how she regards his problems as something he is doing to her.

Suggestions to the CFO would include: (1) Maintaining an unrealistic perception about the specific role and operational importance of her responsibilities unnecessarily increases work-related stress above and beyond that which is unavoidably a function of her position and, therefore, accepting a more realistic view in that regard would eliminate work-related stress significantly; (2) Identifying the specific sources of non-work-related stresses often provides a means for addressing them individually to mitigate them as much as possible;...
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