Managing Stress

Learn about the different types of stress.  Understand how this can affect you, your mind and your body.  This short course includes lessons which look at stress, anger, depression and anxiety and ways to deal with these.  Stress is looked at in different environments; at home and at work and the course includes case studies to illustrate and explain different scenarios.

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
   • Introduction
   • What are negative emotions?
   • The need for control
   • Overview of negative emotions
   • Causes of negative emotions
   • Physiological arousal
   • The impact of negative emotions
   • Negative emotions and mental health disorders
2. STRESS CONTROL
   • Why do we need to control our stress?
   • Physiological response to stress
   • General adaptation syndrome
   • Responses to chronic stress
   • Long-term outcomes
   • Cognitive responses to stress
   • Defence mechanisms
   • The stress epidemic
   • Stress and war
   • Stress and disease
   • Stress and relationships
   • Stress and crime
   • Dealing with stress
   • Stress management techniques
   • Poor coping strategies
   • Useful coping strategies
   • Relaxation strategies
3. ANGER MANAGEMENT
   • The impact of anger
   • Anger as physiological arousal
   • Ways of conceptualising anger
   • Passive aggressive anger
   • Aggressive anger
   • Anger management
   • Ways to diffuse anger
   • Counselling strategies
4. DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
   • Depression
   • Depressive disorders
   • Symptoms of depression
   • Causes of depression
   • Other physical illnesses
   • Anxiety
   • Anxiety disorders
   • Symptoms of anxiety
   • Causes of anxiety
   • Combating anxiety and depression
5. DEALING WITH SHAME, GUILT AND SELF-DOUBT
   • Other common negative emotions
   • Shame
   • Guilt
   • Self-doubt and reduced self-esteem
   • Other negative emotions
6. COPING WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AT HOME
   • Overcoming negative thoughts
   • Helpful techniques for well-being
   • Things to avoid
   • Case studies
7. COPING WITH NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AT WORK
   • Work life
   • Causes of negative emotions at work
   • Anger
   • Stress
   • Fear
   • Disappointment
   • Dislike
   • Bringing negative emotions to work
   • Helpful techniques for wellbeing at work
   • Case studies
8. ACHIEVING BALANCE
   • Too much positivity
   • What is normal? What is healthy?
   • Some stress is fine
   • Dealing with conflict
   • Case studies
   • Hedonic and eudemonic approaches
   • Review what you have been learning
   • FINAL ASSESSMENT

HOW TO WORK THROUGH THIS COURSE

HOW THE COURSE WORKS

This is a self paced, 20 hour study program; with everything from your enrolment through to awarding of your certificate of completion, controlled by computer software developed by our programmers.

Utilizing cutting edge technology all the way; you can

1. Enrol, pay course fees into pay pal; your payment approval then triggers an email explaining how to proceed, and access to the course.
2. You are then given instructions (options to read or listen to an audio).
3. Next you proceed to work through lessons as fast or slow as you wish; undertaking automated self assessment tests at the end of each lesson, choosing practical/additional learning tasks to undertake as you go.
4. On concluding the final lesson; you undertake a major online exam; and on achieving a 60% pass rate, you are given a "Certificate of Completion" carrying your name and date, to download as a pdf, to save or print as you wish

NOTE:

Unlike our other 100 hour courses, there is no additional exam fee charged for the exam in this or any of the 20 hour short courses.