COURSE STRUCTURE
There are eight lessons as follows:
- Body Changes
- Easy Living
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Self Esteem
- Managing Your Own Career
- Security and Decision Making
- Relaxation & Nutrition
- Personal Style Inventory
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Causes of stress, physical changes that occur in the body as a result of stress, short term and long term problems, the cumulative affect of stressors.
- Understanding relaxation, fostering an easy living attitude, putting stressors behind you -f orgiving yourself.
- Common drugs (Alcohol, cigarettes, cough mixtures, decongestants, headache tablets, etc) and their relationship with stress: short term and long term affects.
- “Self Esteem” (how we feel about ourselves) is influenced by many factors. A person’s upbringing, peer group pressure, current employment, physical appearance, and so on, all interact to help determine how we feel about ourselves. We consider the term career in its broadest context – it is what you do with most of your time: it does not need to necessarily be paid employment.
- Problem Solving techniques, Decision Making; Self Assurance and Insecurities
- How diet can affect physical and mental stress; identifying areas of tension and deciding on relaxation techniques that suit you.
- Understanding what type of person you are; and living with that knowledge.
- Undertake an inventory of your own personality, and gain insights into yourself.
