Stress Management
Recommended Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required for this course.
Course Overview
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.
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
Course Outline
- Course Overview
- Defining Stress and How It Affects Us
- Where Are You Now?
- Defining and Identifying Stress
- Ways to Look at Your Stress
- What is Stress About?
- Building a Solid Foundation
- Taking Care of Your Body and Your Mind
- Case Study
- The “Less Stress” Lessons
- Mental Strategies
- Changing Ourselves
- The Triple A Approach
- Stress at Work
- The Stress Tax
- Stress Inventory
- Finding Some Solutions
- Stress Logging
- Time Management Tips
- Stress at Home
- Budgeting Basics
- The Everyday Stuff
- Organization Tips
- Drainers and Fillers
- Personal Action Plan
- Recommended Reading List
- Post-Course Assessment
This course has been recognized by the following professional bodies as a recognized continuous professional development activity for their members:
Australian Natural Therapy Association (ANTA)
Acupuncture and Complementary Medicine Association of Australasia (ACMAA)