Lecture notes
Stress management
- Module
- Health Psychology (NG6116)
- Institution
- The University Of Gloucestershire
3rd year lecture notes on stress management, 5 pages with diagrams
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Stress management: Ways to prevent and relive stressStress management interventions:
1. Reducing potential for stress
- Addressing causes, preventions
2. Ameliorating impact of stress
- Minimise severity & impact of stress
- Build resilience & coping
- Avoid ‘problematic stress’
- Proactive
3. Recovery from stress
- Recovering support for those impacted by stress, reactive
Reducing potential for stress
- Managing interpersonal problems
- Improving personal control
- Time management
- Exercising
- Situational level changes
Ameliorating impact of stress
- Psycho-education
- Relaxation
- Health promotion
- Developing adaptive coping responses
- Enhancing social support
- Resilience training
Recovery from stress
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Acceptance and commitment therapy
- Mindfulness based stress reduction
- Bio-feedback
- Emotional disclosure
- Alterative therapies (massae/acupuncture)
Example – CBT:
Develop understandin > Managing physical symptoms > Managing thoughts > Managing actions
Work stress
- Pervasive problem
- Direct negative effects on individual experiencing it
, - Direct negative effects on companies
- Indirect negative effects for companies
Examples:
- 44% of all work-related health +
- 54% of all working days lost due to ill health
- = due to stress, depression, anxiety
- 822,000 workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety (new/long
standing) in 2020/2021
- Cost of MH problems at work in UK = £34.9bn in 2018
Impact of work-related stress
AKA ‘job strains’
- Behavioural strains
o Employee actions
o E.g drinking alcohol, calling in sick when not ill
- Physical strains
o Physiological symptoms
o E.g headaches, ulcers
- Psychological strains
o Emotional reactions and attitudes
o E.g job dissatisfaction, anxiety, frustration
Work related stressors:
External environmental stressors
- Personal control
- Opportunity to use existing skills & develop new
skills
- Opportunities to pursue goals or meet demands
- Variety
- Clarity
- Opportunity for interpersonal contact
- Money
- Physical security
- Valued social position
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