MANAGING WORK

STRESS
LAB ASSIGNMENT 1

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Stress Management Techniques: Aims of stress management.
 Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at
controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose
of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning. In this context, the term
'stress' refers only to a stress with significant negative consequences, or distress in the
terminology advocated by Hans Selye, rather than what he calls eustress, a stress
whose consequences are helpful or otherwise
 Stress produces numerous physical and mental symptoms which vary according to
each individual's situational factors. These can include physical health decline as well
as depression. The process of stress management is named as one of the keys to a
happy and successful life in modern society. Although life provides numerous
demands that can prove difficult to handle, stress management provides a number of
ways to manage anxiety and maintain overall well-being.
 Despite stress often being thought of as a subjective experience, levels of stress are
readily measurable, using various physiological tests, similar to those used in
polygraphs.
 Many practical stress management techniques are available, some are used by health
professionals and others, for self-help, which may help an individual reduce their
levels of stress, provide positive feelings of control over one's life and promote general
well-being. Other stress reducing techniques involve adding a daily exercise routine,
spending quality time with family and pets, meditation, finding a hobby, writing your
thoughts, feelings, and moods down and also speaking with a trusted one about what
is bothering you. It is very important to keep in mind that not all techniques are going
to work the same for everyone, that is why trying different stress managing techniques
is crucial in order to find what techniques work best for you. An example of this would
be, two people on a roller coaster one can be screaming grabbing on to the bar while
the other could be laughing while their hands are up in the air (Nisson). This is a perfect
example of how stress effects everyone differently that is why they might need a
different treatment. These techniques do not require doctor's approval but seeing if a
doctors technique works better for you is also very important.
 Evaluating the effectiveness of various stress management techniques can be difficult,
as limited research currently exists. Consequently, the amount and quality of evidence
for the various techniques varies widely. Some are accepted as effective treatments
for use in psychotherapy, while others with less evidence favoring them are
considered alternative therapies. Many professional organizations exist to promote
and provide training in conventional or alternative therapies.
 There are several models of stress management, each with distinctive explanations of
mechanisms for controlling stress. Much more research is necessary to provide a
better understanding of which mechanisms actually operate and are effective in
practice.
STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES:
People can learn to manage stress and lead happier, healthier lives. Here are some tips to
help you keep stress at bay.
 Keep a positive attitude.
 Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
 Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of
becoming angry, defensive, or passive.
 Learn and practice relaxation techniques; try meditation, yoga, or tai-chi for stress
management.
 Exercise regularly. Your body can fight stress better when it is fit.
 Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
 Learn to manage your time more effectively.
 Set limits appropriately and learn to say no to requests that would create excessive
stress in your life.
 Make time for hobbies, interests, and relaxation.
 Get enough rest and sleep. Your body needs time to recover from stressful events.
 Don't rely on alcohol, drugs, or compulsive behaviours to reduce stress.
 Seek out social support. Spend enough time with those you enjoy.
 Seek treatment with a psychologist or other mental health professional trained in
stress management or biofeedback techniques to learn healthy ways of dealing with
the stress in your life.
Write down the Importance and application of Expressive therapies in coping with stress.
Importance of expressive therapy :.
 The capability of Expressive Therapy (ET) to give help and mending to youngsters with
an assortment of ailments, incorporating those with mental and conduct wellbeing
concerns, has wide-arriving at suggestions for social insurance suppliers.
 Just characterized, ET is encouraged restorative recuperating in which a protected
space permits relationship investigation through an assortment of inventive outlets.
Concentrated on measure, not item, ET empowers the advancement of individual
mindfulness along with a feeling of network. Despite the methodology utilized by the
specialist or picked by the member, ET is a ground-breaking recuperating instrument
for accomplishing restorative and clinical objectives. These incorporate facilitating
troubling indications (torment, queasiness and tension); persuading out concealed
sentiments and elements (outrage, pity and dissatisfaction); improving patient
decisions and control (particularly when their outer circumstances are out of their
control); encouraging development and life openings; empowering internal
concentration and unwinding; and sustaining powerless, depleted and upset
guardians. Other relatives, for example, kin who are regularly "overlooked" during a
youngster's clinical emergency, additionally advantage from ET, which is genuinely
family-focused in its methodology.
  ET is compelling for patients since it causes them increase numerous abilities and
enables them to concentrate on mending. Patients may have numerous expertise
levels, ages or encounters, and no related knowledge with expressions of the human
experience is required for cooperation. The design is to utilize the favoured
craftsmanship methodology to collaborate with patients and families who need a
greater number of alternatives or outlets than different treatments offer, for example,
talk treatment. For doctors, it very well may be useful to consider this methodology
as far as a youngster's perspective: Young kids don't yet comprehend or have the
words to communicate their feelings verbally. How, at that point, can talk treatment
be successful In the event that you are that equivalent youngster, for whom
inventiveness is a recognizable idea, what better approach to communicate your
feelings and torment than by utilizing those things you see, for example,
craftsmanship, music or move? We have discovered that for some patients, ET
encourages adapting to sentiments of dread, gloom, separation, withdrawal,
uneasiness and even physical agony, making physiologic advantages through
decreases in pressure and hurtful torment pathways. Further, we have seen that a
portion of these patients require less torment drug for their clinical treatment due to
the recuperating intensity of craftsmanship.
 Expressive treatments can be of key significance for the youngster getting care, yet in
addition for the relatives and guardians of the kid. Consolidating ET into treatment can
give a feeling of commonality in the patient's and family's clinic experience, allowing
families to be together away from the medical clinic room (in the event that they are
capable) and an opportunity to diminish sentiments of separation while expanding
correspondence.
 By and large, ET can support youngsters and families center around recuperating by
lessening the kid's view of agony and uneasiness, showing them unwinding and stress
the board abilities and in this manner offering help for them during troublesome
occasions.
Application of expressive treatment
In expressive treatment, patients will use a few of their faculties as they investigate their
internal and external world. Through the making of various works of art and the experience
that it includes, your adolescent's specialist can assist them with conveying their emotions
better. Further, the feeling of achievement accomplished through the formation of
craftsmanship can be spurring. Obviously, the innovative cycle will feature and investigate the
youngster's difficulties and issues too, and in light of the fact that the helpful work depends
on the imaginative cycle, not on the conclusive outcome, it isn't important to have a
foundation or preparing in human expressions to profit by expressive treatment.
Generally speaking advantages of expressive treatment include:
 Affirmation and acknowledgment of sentiments prowling inside
 Upgraded confidence
 Enthusiastic delivery
 Upgrade the capacity to adapt to pressure
  Construct strength and ways of dealing with stress to manage troublesome
circumstances
 Decrease manifestations and sentiments of sadness and tension
 Decrease different treatment needs, for example, hospitalization, recovery stays, and
so on.
 Increment in general full fillment with life.

Expressive therapies are: