Stress Detection, Prevention, and Management

LEARNING UNIT 1. WHAT IS STRESS?

1. A universal problem;
2. A wonderful 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.

LEARNING UNIT 3. WHERE STRESS OCCURS.

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

TEACHING UNIT 4. WHAT MEDICINE SAYS.

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 of the Jerkes-Dodson.
3. Symptoms of chronic distress.
4. Difficulty and ability.

LEARNING UNIT 6. WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.

1. Performance.
2. A Day in the Life of an Executive 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 Organization.
5. The Diabolical Spiral.

TEACHING UNIT 8. HOW WE CREATE OUR OWN DISTRESS.

1. Uncompromising competitiveness.
2. The Work.
3. Job requirements?
4. The Paradox of Time.
5. Perfectionism.
6. What's Urgent and What's Important.
7. Crisis, «fires.».
8. Putting off the important things until later.
9. Are you a workaholic?.
10. The email.
11. The «cell phone.».
12. The computer.
13. Technostress.
14. Telework.
15. The Activity/Effort Trap.
16. Doing several things at once.
17. Precarious contracts.
18. Sports.
19. Unemployment.
20. Other work-related stressors.

TEACHING UNIT 9. THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF STRESS: WORKPLACE 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 stigmatization.
8. Intervention by the hierarchy.
9. Request for specialized outside assistance and incorrect diagnosis.
10. Withdrawal from the organization.
11. Basic Types of Harassment.
12. The breeding ground.

TEACHING UNIT 10. WORK-RELATED STRESS.

1. Some facts about workers.
2. The Costs of Workplace Stress
3. The most common stressors.

LESSON UNIT 11. HOW TO PREVENT STRESS.

1. Analyze your stress.
2. Managing Emotions.
3. On a personal level.
4. At the organizational level.

LESSON UNIT 12. HOW TO COMBAT STRESS.

1. On a personal level.
2. At the organizational level.