Certified Stress Management Professional Diploma (Level 1)

Take the first steps to becoming a professional stress management consultant for individuals, groups and businesses.

What you'll learn

You will learn everything you need to know to begin your journey as a Certified Professional Stress Management Consultant.

You will be able to evaluate your own and other's stress levels and have an insight and understanding of what causes and contributes to stress.

You'll know what me mean when we're talking about strain versus stress.

You'll Understand the chemistry and phsyiology of stress and be able to the impact on life events.

Learn about organisational models, structures and types plus the main causes of stress in the workplace.

Know how to monitor stressand strain based on the response and significance of an event.

Requirements

An Internet connection and a computer, tablet or smart phone.

Description

In this professional certificated diploma course you will be guided through the best practices and required knowledge to be a  stress management consultant and to offer paid for services to clients, groups and within organisations.This is the first level of a three level diploma course. Each level will build on the previous one. Each level is individually certificated and the diploma is awarded on successful completion of all three levels.In this course you’ll learn to identify, quantify and evaluate and quantify stress in the individual and in the workplace.

  You will discover what stress is, how we respond, psychologically and physiologically and how that affects our behaviour. You'll learn how that affects our ability to adapt and assimilate new information. Find out how stress impacts us and how our personal defence mechanisms may not be working in our best interests when we’re under severe stress.

  This first level covers what stress is all about and the ramifications that it can have, not only for our long term for our health and wellbeing, but also the potential implications for organisations, and ultimately their bottom line. It will give you plenty of materials to understand, guide and help people who are suffering with stress related problems and provide the necessary foundations for what we will build on in the next levels.

 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome and thanks.

Lecture 2 Employers now have a responsibility for emplayee wellbeing in the workplace

Lecture 3 About your tutor

Lecture 4 A special request from your tutor

Section 2: Module 1 - What is stress; Our reactions; Appriasal and Strategies; Variables

Lecture 5 Introduction to module 1 - Stress Management - definitions and possibilities.

Lecture 6 What is stress? Three useful definitions of the nature of stress.

Lecture 7 The components of stress - Why we respond differently to stressful situations.

Lecture 8 Appraisal of stress - What is the process of reaction to stressful situations.

Lecture 9 The physiological, psychological & behavioural variables associated with stress.

Lecture 10 The four main types of stress: Acute, Episodic, Chronic and Eustress / Distress

Section 3: Module 2 - Physiological, chemical, behavioural stress. Adaptation & evaluation.

Lecture 11 Introduction to module 2 - What exactly is happening inside our bodies?

Lecture 12 The physiology of stress - Our chemical reactions to stressful situations.

Lecture 13 Assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium: Piaget's Theory of Adaptation.

Lecture 14 Life events and stress - Social Readjustment Rating Scale SRRS (Holmes and Rahe)

Lecture 15 Evaluating the impact of life events. Life is particularly stressful when it's -

Section 4: Our many personal defence mechanisms and evaluating/reducing stress.

Lecture 16 Introduction to module 3 - Many of our coping mechanisms can keep us stuck.

Lecture 17 Personal defence mechanisms - reverting to earlier and altered behaviour.

Lecture 18 Evaluating/reducing situational stress: The 20 questions you must address!

Lecture 19 Activity: Evaluating/Reducing Situational Stress

Section 5: We address lifestyle stressors and how they affect our everyday lives.

Lecture 20 Introduction to module 4 - Too much or too little can have detrimental effects.

Lecture 21 Life stress: Performance, threat, boredom, frustration, bereavement & physical.

Lecture 22 Stressors affecting our personal and working lives.

Lecture 23 Factors affecting strain levels - intensity, duration. Optimum stress/strain.

Lecture 24 The level of stress = event + response + significance. Preparation for activity.

Lecture 25 Activity: Level of stress = event + response + significance

Section 6: Organisations: Models, structures and types. Stress management in the workplace.

Lecture 26 Introduction to module 5 - Are you considering working in organisations?

Lecture 27 You need to be aware of and able to identify the type of organisation it is.

Lecture 28 The five parts of the organisation - beginning to evaluate the structure.

Lecture 29 The five types of organisation - beginning to evaluate.

Section 7: The many causes of stress within the work place.

Lecture 30 Introduction to module 6 - What causes stress at work?

Lecture 31 Stress in the workplace. Factors intrinsic to the job.

Lecture 32 Stress in the workplace. Role in the organisation.

Lecture 33 Job satisfaction. Lack of satisfaction in the workplace leads to stress.

Lecture 34 Work addiction - Types of workaholic.

Lecture 35 Work addiction - Characteristics of work addicts.

Section 8: Conclusion

Lecture 36 Closing words

Therapists, coaches, managers or anyone involved in or interested in helping people who are suffering from stress.