Stress Management. Secular, 38 pages

• It is recommended before teaching this course on Stress Management, to teach the two sessions on Attitude, Module 1, and the one session of Desire, Module 1.

• This curriculum is designed to help you better cope with the stress encountered.There are eight sessions, each with its own rationale and specific homework assignments.

• First session serves as a general introduction

• The next three sessions focus on basic skill building: increasing awareness and control of bodily reactions, physical stress responses, behavioral stress responses, and cognitive stress responses.

• The next two sessions show how to apply these skills to a variety of stress situations, both planning for predictable stressors and coping with unexpectyed stress emergencies.

• The final two sessions are devoted to incressing your stress resistance by developing strategies for obtaining needed rest and recuperation, and second, to protecting your investment by learning ways of making stress a lifelong habit.

• What is Stress?

• Who Experiences Stress?

• Personality Types

• External Stress TriggersInternal Stress Triggers

• What Happens During a Stress Episode?

• The Stressed-Prone Response to Stress

• How the Program is Structured

• Format of the Program

• The Importance of the HomeworkRationale for Managing BodilyTension

• Rationale for Managing Behavioral Tension

• Think Productively

• Steps Involved in Learning to Manage Self-Talk

• Rationale for Learning to Plan for Stress

• Rationale for Learning Emergency Braking Techniques

• Building Stress Resistance

• Steps Involved in Learning to Plan for Pleasure

• Rationale for Considering Stress Management for Lifelong Objective

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