Stress and psychological resilience

Effect for participants:

• capable of identifying their personal stressors.
• capable of identifying their own stress symptoms.
• learn how to prevent burnout syndrome.
• learn the basic techniques for coping with job stress.
• gain the ability to increase their own psychological resilience.

Content frame:

Stress and load

•    What is stress and what is load
•    Stress as the cause and response
•    Distress and eustress
•    Role of stress in survival

Stressors 

•    Causes of stress
•    Stress factors
•    Life events as stressors
•    Intervention methods
•    What is stressing me out

Stress symptoms

•    General adaptation syndrome
•    Body’s response to stress
•    Symptom levels
•    Effects of stress over time

Job stressors

•    Stress impact levels
•    How to cope with stressors in the workplace
•    Stress-coping strategies – effective and ineffective
•    What I can and cannot influence

Burnout syndrome

•    Burnout syndrome and stress
•    Signs of burnout syndrome
•    Stages of burnout and how to fight it

Mental endurance

•    Pressures that people face
•    What is mental endurance
•    Common mistakes in mental endurance
•    How to use pressure to make you stronger
•    Dark side of pressure - stress

Stress management strategies 

•    Coping or stress management
•    Inappropriate approaches to stress management
•    Changing the burden of the individual
•    Plan to overcome stress 

 Relieving stress

•    Relaxation techniques
•    Mental hygiene
•    Positive thinking
•    Creating your own medicine against stress
•    Techniques for stress relief