KAPLAN UNIVERSITY

HW410 Stress: Critical Issues in

Management and Prevention

Stress
Management and
Prevention
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Program Resource
Guide

KA P L A N U N I V E R S I T Y

Stress Management and Prevention

Program Resource Guide

By
Sasha Avila
Kaplan University
HW410: Stress: Critical Issues in Management and Prevention
10/28/2014

Table of Contents
UNIT

THE

NATU RE

OF

STRESS

Information to Remember: The Fight or Flight Response, Stress

Response & Wellness Paradigm.
Resources: Exercises: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing: Journal Writing
UNIT

THE

BO DY

Information

to

AS

BATTL EF IEL D

Remember:

Memory

decrease,

effects

of

multitasking, & Excess glucocorticoids.

Resources: Exercises: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing: Journal Writing
UNIT

F EAST

OR

FAM IN INE

Information to Remember: Anger and Fear responses, The five

building blocks of psychological stressors, & defense mechanisms.
Resources: Exercises: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing: Journal Writing
UNIT

ONE

PL ANET

UNDER

STRESS

Information to Remember: The four elements of self-esteem,

Human spirituality, stress prone personalities.
Resources: Exercises: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

UNDER

STRESS:

WHAT

NOW?

Information to Remember: Successful aging, Humor as a stress

reliever and right and left hemisphere of the brain.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

AGEL ESS

WISDOM

OF

M EDITATIO N

Information to Remember: Diaphragmatic breathing, mental

imagery & Exclusive meditation.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

SIGHT,

SOUN D,

AND

BO DY

WOR K

Information to Remember: Unhealthy eating habits, The four

dominoes, and caffeine and sugar effects.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

THE

WEL L NESS

M ANDAL A

Information to Remember: Flushing stress hormones, mind/body

connection and benefits of exercise.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

APPLYING

PREVEN TIO N

TO

STRESS:

YOUR

CRITICAL

PROF ESSI ONAL

M ANAGEM ENT

AND

L IF E

Information to Remember: Information seeking, forgiveness and

hobbies.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
UNIT

1 0

APPLYING

PREVEN TIO N

TO

STRESS:

YOUR

CRITICAL

PROF ESSI ONAL

M ANAGEM ENT

AND

L IF E

Information to Remember: PMR, Muscle contraction and Muscle

tension.
Resources: Exercises
Tools: Journal Writing
ADDITI ONAL

INF ORM ATIO N

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Unit

Unit 1: The Nature of Stress

Information to Remember:

Fight or Flight response is males why of responding to stress mostly; their

brain will tell them if they should feel threatened or not. Females on the other
hand have this same response but they also try to sit and figure things out and
talk when dealing with stress.

Stress is a sense of threat whether it is emotional, mental, spiritual or physical.

Your body releases epinephrine to get organs and tissues prepared for the
fight or flight response.

The balance of emotional, physical and spiritual well being is known as the
Wellness Paradigm. Being healthy in all these sections contributes to your
overall wellbeing.

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 2: The Body as Battlefield

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Unit

Information to Remember:

When certain stressors keep repeating our memory tends to start decreasing.
This is due to the weakening of the hippocampal brain cells.

Multitasking is a great skill to have in the professional world and even your
personal life but it does cause the loss of organizational skills. Because you are
doing so much at once it is lowing your ability to process effectively.

The damage caused from a high amount of stress and excess glucocorticoids
results in interruption of the primary functions of the hippocampus. This
causes neurological damage and can lead to death if the stress response keeps
the adrenal secretions of glucocorticoids coming.

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 3: Feast or Famine

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Unit

Information to Remember:

Anger and fear are in some ways the same but also differ. Anger makes your
skin appear red and increases blood flow while fear makes you look pale. They
can bring things upon like ulcers, headaches and hypertension.

The Building blocks of Psychological stressors are social support, control,

predictability, perception of things worsening and outlets for frustration.
Support systems help with dealing with stress while predictability does not
help because it does not take the negative impact away.

Defense mechanisms are used when someone is under stress. Examples of

defense mechanisms are regression, displacement, projection and humor
along with many others.

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 4: One Planet Under Stress

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Unit

Information to Remember:

The four elements of self-esteem should start when you are a child. They
include connectedness, uniqueness, power, and models. Models are a guiding
principle in life that share goals, ideals, values, and personal standards.

Human spirituality is based on the seasons of the world. For example winter is
emptying process, Spring is the grounding, Autumn is centering, and summer
is connecting. All are very important for human spiritually.

Stress prone personalities are Type A personality which feels everyone needs
them for help, needs to be in control and the head of order.

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 5: Under Stress: What Now?

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Unit

Information to Remember:

Successful aging is due to the amount of the hormone glucocorticoids in adults

in non stressful situations.

Humor is considered a defense mechanism which relieves stress in people.

Humor increases pleasure and decreases pain in humans.

The right side of the brain holds no concept of time like the left side does. Left
side of the brain is more imaginative and creative. Right side of the brain is
more logical than the left.

Resources: Exercises

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 6: Ageless Wisdom of

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Unit

Unit

Meditation
Information to Remember:

Diaphragmatic breathing

Mental Imagery

Exclusive meditation

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 7: Sight, Sound and Body Work

Information to Remember:

Unhealthy eating habits

The four dominoes

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Unit

Caffeine and sugar effects

Resources: Exercises:

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Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 8: The Wellness Mandala

Information to Remember:

Flushing stress hormones

Mind/body connection

Benefits of exercise.

Resources: Exercises:

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Unit

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Unit 9: Applying Stress: Critical

Management to your Professional
Life
Information to Remember:

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Professional Life <insert your text>

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Professional Life <insert your text>

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Professional Life <insert your text>

Resources: Exercises:

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Unit

Tools: Journal Writing:

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Unit 10: Applying Stress: Critical

Management to your Personal Life
Information to Remember:

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Personal Life <insert your text>

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Personal Life <insert your text>

Key learning point from the unit about Applying Stress: Critical Management
to Your Personal Life <insert your text>

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Resources: Exercises:

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Additional Information
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