Resilience and Stress Management
Learning objectives
- Differentiate between healthy and unhealthy stress
- Recognize the physical, mental, and psychological effects of stress
- Identify stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Describe stress management techniques you can adopt or modify to help ensure that stress does not lead to health problems
- Recognize the relationship between resilience and stress management
Course overview
This lesson introduces you to the positive and negative aspects of stress, how stress can affect you, and ways to manage it while developing and strengthening your resilience.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 5 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- Tier: 2
- Course ID: 4579
English
Course Outline
- Resilience and Stress Management
Regulations
- “5 Things You Should Know About Stress.” (n.d.) National Institute of Mental Health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/stress/index.shtml
- “Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19.” April 16, 2020. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html
- Pappas, Stephanie. April 20, 2020. “Quickly Calming Distress and Improving Mental Health.” American Psychological Association. Retrieved from www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/distress-mental-health
- “Protect Your Brain from Stress.” August, 2016. Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School. Retrieved from www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/protect-your-brain-from-stress
- Rasmus Hougaard , Jacqueline Carter and Moses Mohan. March 19, 2020. “Building Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis.” Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2020/03/build-your-resiliency-in-the-face-of-a-crisis