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. This will help you know how to:

• 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 Content

Lessons

Module One: Getting Started

Module Two: Understanding Stress

Module Three: Creating a Stress-Reducing Lifestyle

Module Four: Altering the Situation

Module Five: Avoiding the Situation

Module Six: Accepting the Situation

Module Seven: Using Routines to Reduce Stress

Module Eight: Environmental Relaxation Techniques

Module Nine: Physical Relaxation Techniques

Module Ten: Coping with Major Events

Module Eleven: Our Challenge to You

Module Twelve: Wrapping Up