Anxiety and Stress Psychology

Course details

This Anxiety and Stress Psychology program is designed to assist you in recognizing, comprehending, and enhancing psychological challenges such as stress, insomnia, worry, anxiety, and depression. Its purpose is to help you identify and comprehend stress and anxiety, providing techniques to manage them effectively before they become overwhelming.

The program offers a three-option approach for addressing stressful situations and equips you with a set of personal skills, including the utilization of routines, relaxation methods, and a stress log system. By participating in this course, you will enhance your foundational knowledge of mental health, learning practical tools to regulate and balance your emotions. It empowers you to navigate your mind, fostering a more positive perspective. Additionally, you will gain insights into lifestyle adjustments that can be made to diminish stress.

Anxiety and Stress Psychology Course Learning Outcomes:

• Define stress and identify its impact on mental well-being.
• Differentiate between 'good stress' and 'bad #39;
• Explore individual coping mechanisms for stress.
• Examine the relationship between stress and burnout.
• Understand the basics of anxiety and its distinctions from stress.
• Recognise common anxiety disorders and their characteristics.
• Evaluate psychotherapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders.
• Apply stress management techniques, including breathing exercises.
• Analyse the role of nutrition in stress management.
• Grasp the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety.
• Implement mindfulness and mindfulness-based therapy for anxiety reduction.

Anxiety and Stress Psychology Course Outline:

Psychology of Stress

• What Is Stress?
• How does ‘stress’ affect us?
• Why do we experience ‘stress’ differently?
• ‘Good stress’ (Eustress) Vs ‘Bad stress’ (Distress)
• ‘Stress’ and ‘Burnout’

Individual experience of stress

• Coping with stress as an individual
• Low ability (inability) to cope with stressors
• What do people use to cope with stress?
• ‘Addictions’ and Coping with ‘Stress’

Stress Management

• ‘Breathing’ in Stress Management
• Stress-Reducing Techniques
• Medication Treatments (Pharmacology) – Part 1
• Medication Treatments (Pharmacology) – Part 2
• Nutrition and ‘Stress’ – Part 1
• Nutrition and ‘Stress’ – Part 2

Psychology of ‘Anxiety’

• What do we call ‘anxiety’?
• What is the difference between ‘stress’ and ‘anxiety’?
• When does ‘anxiety’ become an ‘anxiety disorder’?

Anxiety Disorders

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
• Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
• Panic Disorder
• ‘Addictions’ and Anxiety Disorders

Coping with Anxiety

• Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety Disorders
• Mindfulness & Mindfulness Based Therapy (MBT)
• Medial Treatments (Pharmacology)
• Anxiety-Reducing Techniques

Final Words

• Goodbye and Thank You!

Updated on 07 December, 2023