A journey into the human mind.
Stress Management
Learn to be healthier by managing stress better. Understand how stress affects the body, mind, and emotions. Discover how to manage symptoms (anxiety, irritability, fatigue, poor concentration), tools to combat stress and improve wellbeing.
Course information
Discover strategies to manage stress and relax
Stress causes a range of symptoms like anxiety, fatigue, poor concentration, and irritability. There are many ways to overcome these things and prevent stress from impacting us negatively. Study this course to:
- Learn about causes of stress - physical changes that occur in the body as a result of stress, short term and long term problems, cumulative affect of stressors.
- Understand relaxation - fostering an easy-living attitude, putting stressors behind you, forgiving yourself.
- Discover the relationship between drugs and stress - short-term and long-term effects (alcohol, cigarettes, cough mixtures, decongestants, headache tablets, etc).
- Determine the role of self-esteem on stress e.g. how it's influenced by a person's upbringing, peer group pressure, current employment, physical appearance.
- Learn how our career and mindset impact stress.
- Develop problem-solving techniques, self-assurance and overcome insecurities.
- Improve diet and lifestyle to lower stress.
- Discover stress-reducing relaxation techniques.
- Understand what type of person you are and how your personality might influence stress.
This course prepares the graduate to manage their own stress, and support others to manage their stress.
Lesson Structure
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Body Changes
- Modern Day Stressors: Controls, Complexity, Competition, Computers, etc
- Symptoms and Affects of Stress
- The Muscle Response
- Gastrointestinal Responses
- Cardiovascular Responses
- Skin Responses
- The fight or flight response
- Stress Effect on Wellbeing
- Stress and the immune system
- Stress Management Response Program
- Easy Living
- Work Addiction
- Understanding Stress Symptoms (Confusion, Depression, Changes in sleeping, eating or sexual habits, Mood changes, drugs)
- Determining Cause of Stress
- Deciding How to Deal with Stress
- Terminology
- Self Image
- Tips for Relaxation (Massage, Aromatherapy, Relaxation, Hobbies, etc)
- Controlling Stress
- Too Little Stress
- Pills and Alcohol
- Understanding Alcohol
- What is Too Much Alcohol
- Over the Counter or Non Prescription Drugs
- Drugs Prescribed by a Doctor
- Illegal Drugs
- Seeking help
- Self Esteem
- What is Self esteem
- Realistic Expectations
- Altering Your Perception
- Social Support
- Building Self Esteem in Others
- Managing Your Own Career
- Work Satisfaction
- Managing a Career
- Reviewing Your Career
- Standing Out and Progressing
- Security and Decision Making
- Self assurance
- Developing Security and Self Assurance
- Analyzing Ourselves
- Decision making
- Strategy
- Problem solving
- Relaxation and Nutrition
- Relaxation
- Nutrition; we are what we eat
- Dietary Fibre, Vitamins and Minerals, and a Balanced Diet
- Problems of Nutrition and Diet
- Weight loss
- Tips for Healthy Eating
- Personality and Stress
- Relationship between Personality and Stress
- Personality Types -Type A and Type B personalities
- Introvert
- Extrovert
- Personal style inventory -How to Determine Personality Type
Aims
- Identify changes that occur to the body as stress develops.
- Identify the relationship between lifestyle and stress.
- Discuss the impact of legal drugs on the psychology of a person.
- Discuss the importance of self esteem in minimizing stress.
- Determine options for career management that will minimize potential for stress.
- Identify and address security issues that impact on stress levels.
- Identify aspects of relaxation and nutrition in a person’s life that may impact upon stress levels.
- Identify the relationship between stress and personality type.
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