SM 610 Effective Stress Management

Course overview

This comprehensive CE course provides a very comprehensive overview of studies, research, and dynamics related to managing stress. Students study many facets of stress management, as well as major theories, process models, and other related content. Progression in the course then focuses on coping with twenty first century stress, including preventing burnout and creating a stress free life; healthy lifestyle; the trifecta of stress reduction and stress and your psychological health; and managing stressful conditions in your life (work-life balance). The nature of stress and stress management is presented to help you find information on the nature of stress, how you can identify it, what you can do to reduce most of it, manage the rest, and live a healthy, productive, stress-free life. Some stress comes from life circumstances and some from our own self creation. This course examines many different modalities and short interventions that consultants can easy apply in their practices.