Managing stress /
"Managing Stress identifies the nature of stress for individuals, and what causes it in further and higher education. It helps staff in academic institutions to recognize the signs and symptoms of stress, and highlights the potential health problems if the stress is not managed. It provides its...
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| Language: | English |
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Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia :
Open University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Managing universities and colleges.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Setting the scene
- What is stress?
- Approaches to stress
- Good stress versus bad stress
- Stress, the individual and work
- 2. Manifestations of stress
- Stages of stress
- Signs of stress at work
- Personality types and stress
- 3. General sources of stress
- Sources of stress
- 4. Sources of stress in further and higher education
- Stress in higher education
- Stress in further education
- 5. Stress and health
- Physiological illnesses
- Psychological illnesses
- 6. Stress management
- Keeping a stress diary
- Becoming change-skilled
- Adopting a healthy lifestyle
- Adopting the right attitude
- Thought awareness
- Imagery (autogenic therapy)
- Learning to relax
- Correct breathing
- Value and goal planning
- Time management
- Some general advice
- The individual's ten commandments for effective stress management
- 7. Organizations and stress management
- Recognize the signs
- Approaches to the problem.
- The college's ten commandments for effective stress management.