Stress Management

Stress management offers a range of strategies to help you better deal with stress and difficulty (adversity) in your life. Managing stress can help you lead a more balanced, healthier life.

Stress is an automatic physical, mental and emotional response to a challenging event. It’s a normal part of everyone’s life. When used positively, stress can lead to growth, action and change. But negative, long-term stress can lessen your quality of life.

This course will teach you how to identify the causes of stress, the symptoms of stress, how to manage stressful situations, how to maximize positive stress, how to apply routines to your life and practice relaxation techniques when feeling stress and much more.

Learning Objectives

• Learn what lifestyle elements can be changed to reduce stress;
• Use routines to reduce stress;
• Learn environmental and physical relaxation techniques;
• Learn how to cope with major events;
• Learn how to use a stress log to identify stressors & create a plan to reduce or eliminate them;