Stress Detection, Prevention and Management

TEACHING UNIT 1. WHAT IS STRESS?

1. A universal problem;
2. A marvellous survival mechanism

TEACHING UNIT 2. STRESS TODAY

1. What causes stress?.
2. Stress: a subjective experience.
3. Stress and change.
4. The relief of stress.

TEACHING UNIT 3. WHERE STRESS AFFECTS THE BODY.

1. The three masterminds.
2. The effect on the brain.
3. The usual consequences.
4. Who suffers from stress?.

TEACHING UNIT 4. WHAT MEDICINE HAS TO SAY.

1. The first warning signs. Hans Selye.
2. Stress by frequency.
3. Holmes and Rosenman.
4. Friesman and Rosenman.
5. Stress indicators.

TEACHING UNIT 5. STRESS: IS IT ALWAYS HARMFUL?

1. Eutres and distres.
2. Lay by Jerkes-Dodson.
3. Symptoms of chronic distress.
4. Difficulty and ability.

TEACHING UNIT 6. WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.

1. Performance.
2. A day in the life of a manager or professional.
3. Your best tool.
4. Endorphins.
5. In search of happiness.

TEACHING UNIT 7. HOW DISTRESS AFFECTS US.

1. How distress affects the individual.
2. Individual differences.
3. Work-related burnout.
4. How distress affects the organisation.
5. The vicious circle.

TEACHING UNIT 8. HOW WE CREATE OUR OWN DISTRESS.

1. Competitiveness at all costs.
2. Work.
3. Job requirements?
4. The paradox of time.
5. Perfectionism.
6. What is urgent and what is important.
7. Crisis, "fires".
8. Putting off the important things until later.
9. Are you a workaholic?.
10. The email.
11. The "mobile".
12. The computer.
13. Technostress.
14. Working from home.
15. The activity/effort trap.
16. Multitasking.
17. Precarious contracts.
18. Sport.
19. Unemployment.
20. Other work-related stress factors.

TEACHING UNIT 9. THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF STRESS: BULLYING

1. What is workplace bullying?.
2. Common consequences.
3. Who are the bullies?.
4. What is the cause?.
5. How it appears.
6. Critical incident phase.
7. Harassment and stigmatisation.
8. Intervention by the hierarchy.
9. Request for specialist external support and incorrect diagnosis.
10. Withdrawal from the organisation.
11. Basic types of harassment.
12. The breeding ground.

TEACHING UNIT 10. WORK-RELATED STRESS.

1. Some facts about the workers.
2. The costs of work-related stress
3. The most common stressors.

TEACHING UNIT 11. HOW TO PREVENT STRESS.

1. Assess your stress levels.
2. Managing emotions.
3. On a personal level.
4. At an organisational level.

TEACHING UNIT 12. HOW TO COMBAT STRESS.

1. On a personal level.
2. At an organisational level.