Dealing With Stress

A guide to keeping pressures within manageable limits and avoiding harmful stress

What you'll learn
This course will help you to understand the important difference between pressure and stress
It will also help you appreciate the crucial role of support and recognize that we all need support at times
By the end of the course you will have a fuller understanding of stress and the harm it can do
You will also be aware of a range of strategies you can use to manage pressures and prevent harmful stress
Requirements
There are no specific requirements for this course.
Description
    Welcome to this e-learning course on Dealing with Stress. Written and presented by Neil Thompson, this course offers a sound understanding of the problems associated with stress. Equivalent to a full day’s continuous professional development, the course provides helpful strategies for preventing pressure from overspilling into stress and responding positively to situations where stress has become an issue. It is an ideal grounding for staff and managers alike across a wide spectrum of organisations and settings. It is built around two video presentations made by Dr Thompson, one on understanding stress and the other on meeting the stress challenge.    It has been designed to offer a solid foundation of learning about stress for all employees. There is a companion course entitled Managing Stress which is specifically geared towards helping managers understand their managerial responsibilities in relation to stress. It is strongly recommended that, if you are a manager, you complete this course first before undertaking the Managing Stress one.    If you are not a manager, then this course should provide you with the understanding you need to make sense of stress and rise to the challenges involved by keeping your pressures within manageable limits.    Many courses and books on stress offer a simplistic and potentially dangerous approach to stress, but here Dr Thompson shows the complexities involved and gives you the insights you need to deal with them confidently and constructively. 

Overview

Section 1: My First Section

Lecture 1 Why Dealing with Stress?

Lecture 2 Welcome and Introduction

Lecture 3 Introductory video

Lecture 4 Module Companion E-book

Section 2: Lesson One: Understanding Stress 1

Lecture 5 Lesson 1.1: Making sense of stress

Lecture 6 Lesson 1.2: Pressure and stress 1

Lecture 7 Lesson 1.3: Pressure and stress 2

Section 3: Lesson Two: Understanding Stress 2

Lecture 8 Lesson 2.1: The three dimensions of stress

Lecture 9 Lesson 2.2: Coping

Lecture 10 Lesson 2.3: Support

Section 4: Lesson Three: Understanding Stress 3

Lecture 11 Lesson 3.1: The costs of stress

Lecture 12 Lesson 3.2: The individual, the team and the organisation

Lecture 13 Lesson 3.3: Understanding stress: review

Section 5: Lesson Four: Meeting the Stress Challenge 1

Lecture 14 Lesson 4.1: Managing pressure, preventing stress

Lecture 15 Lesson 4.2: The causes of stress: pressure revisited

Lecture 16 Lesson 4.3: Expectations and control

Section 6: Lesson Five: Meeting the Stress Challenge 2

Lecture 17 Lesson 5.1: Keeping pressures manageable

Lecture 18 Lesson 5.2: Useful strategies

Lecture 19 Lesson 5.3: Self-care

Section 7: Lesson Six: Meeting the Stress Challenge 3

Lecture 20 Lesson 6.1: Avoiding the stress cycle

Lecture 21 Lesson 6.2: Self-awareness

Lecture 22 Lesson 6.3: Organisational awareness

Section 8: Conclusion

Lecture 23 Concluding video

Lecture 24 Thank you message from Neil

Anyone involved in the world of work who wants to keep their pressures manageable and prevent stress and help their colleagues to do the same