Summary

Stress Management

Today’s workforce is experiencing job burnout and stress in epidemic proportions. Workers at all levels feel stressed out, insecure, and misunderstood. Many people feel the demands of the workplace, combined with the demands of home, have become too much to handle. This course explores the causes of such stress and suggests general and specific stress management strategies that people can use every day.

Completion of this course will earn 0.575 CEUs.

Introduction

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand that stress is an unavoidable part of everybody’s life
• Recognize the symptoms that tell you when you have chronic stress overload
• Change the situations and actions that can be changed
• Deal better with situations and actions that can’t be changed
• Create an action plan for work, home, and play to help reduce and manage stress

Outline

  • Course Overview

    • Pre-Assignment: Holmes-Rahe Stress Rating
  • Defining Stress and How It Affects Us

    • Where Are You Now?
    • Defining and Identifying Stress
    • Pre-Assignment
    • What Does It Mean?
    • Ways to Look at Your Stress
    • Understanding Stress
    • Coping Behaviors
    • Stress and Your Health
    • Causes of Stress
  • What is Stress About?

    • Stress Can Be About Changing Lifestyles
    • Stress Can Be About Power
    • Stress Can Be About Self-esteem
    • Stress Is About Change In Our Environment
    • Flexibility
    • Eustress
  • Building a Solid Foundation

    • Taking Care of Your Body and Your Mind
    • Making Connections
    • Case Study: Carrie's Day
    • Carrie's Day
    • Questions
    • The 'Less Stress' Lessons
  • Mental Strategies

    • Changing Ourselves
    • Personality
    • Nature of Organization
    • Quality of Support
    • The Triple A Approach
    • Alter
    • Avoid
    • Accept
  • Stress at Work

    • The Stress Tax
    • Symptoms of Stress Overload
    • Stress Inventory
    • Scoring
    • Finding Some Solutions
    • Stress Logging
    • Sample Log
    • Finding Solutions
  • Time Management Tips

    • Brainstorming Some Great Ideas
  • Stress at Home

    • Budgeting Basics
    • Finding Resources
    • The Everyday Stuff
    • Meal Planning
    • Organization Tips
  • Drainers and Fillers

    • Personal Drainers
    • Personal Fillers
  • A Personal Action Plan

    • Where I Want to Go
    • How I Will Get There

Course Schedule

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**Indicates a course that is only a half day.