Coping with Stress

Overview/Description
 "You don't get ulcers from what you eat, but from what's eating you," said Albert Cliffe. There's no way to avoid having stress in one's life, but there are techniques for combating it. Are you your own worst enemy when it comes to stress? This course, the fourth in the series "Achieving Balance in Your Professional and Personal Life," will help you discover ways to manage self-induced stress. Perhaps it's your work that makes you feel pressured. You'll explore ways to anticipate for stressful situations in order to reduce their disruptions on your life. Sometimes it's just our own negative thinking that creates anxiety in our lives. In this course, you'll employ time-tested methods of diffusing these negative thoughts. By the time you're finished integrating these lessons, you'll have the tools to keep stress in check.

Target Audience
 Anyone interested in improving the personal and professional development process.

Expected Duration
3 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Handling Self-induced Stress

  • recognize the importance of handling stress in a positive way.
  • identify good stress management techniques.
  • specify how stress works.
  • identify the manner in which Type A and Type B behavior types deal with stress.

    • Abating Chronic Work Stressors

  • recognize the importance of reducing chronic work stressors.
  • identify the manner in which stress operates at work.
  • choose characteristics of how stress from overwork operates.
  • identify the manner in which under-utilization operates.
  • identify the ways that stress is tied to lifestyle.

    • Managing Self-talk

  • recognize the benefits of overcoming negative thinking patterns.
  • specify the manner in which negative thinking works.
  • identify the ways that optimistic, positive thinking works.
  • choose characteristics of visualization and affirmation.

    • Increasing Stress Tolerance

  • recognize the value of techniques that improve coping with pressure.
  • identify the manner in which stress levels operate.
  • identify ways in which stress tolerance can be increased.
  • select various methods of tempering personal stress.

    • Course Number: PD0114