Keep Stress at Bay

Name: Keep Stress at Bay
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Understanding the best techniques for protecting your body from daily stresses

Created byDr. J Psychology

Last updated 8/2022

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What you'll learn

Learn which psychological buffers and therapies will protect you from stress due to life events, personality problems, and social interactions.
Understand the most common stressors
Try techniques that can reduce your stress
Identify the health risks related to particular stressors

Course content

3 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 5m total length

Lecture 1: Introduction to Course6:36
Explore how psychological and social factors and stress influence common medical problems, from insomnia to heart disease, and learn coping techniques like relaxation, meditation, cognitive self-instruction, and support groups.
Hypnotherapy Demonstration10:01
A hypnotherapy demonstration for smoking cessation guides a client through focused breathing and visualization of a future free of nicotine.

Defining Physical Disorders Due to Psychological Issues8:16
Defines and explains the interaction between psychological factors (such as personality, biofeedback and stressful events) and common health and medical problems.
Lecture 2: The Immune System & Social Behavior4:11
Examines how white blood cells in the immune system are affected by stress.
Lecture 3: Treatment Buffers3:01
Relaxation methods as well as biofeedback techniques are described for treating specific medical problems.
Lecture 4: Buffers for Improving Health Problems4:59
Addresses the techniques of meditation, hypnosis, cognitive training and support groups in alleviating the symptoms of various medical problems.
Lecture 5: Combinations & Applications2:10
Apply what you've learned about using psychological methods on common medical problems with: an applied exercise, an events scale, a personality test, and a review of the key concepts in this lesson.
Explanations of Buffer Techniques10:16
Practice relaxation from head to toe for four to six weeks to elicit relaxation response, and pair it with meditation, hypnotherapy, and cognitive self-instruction to cope with pain and stress.

1 - Overview of the DSM-5-TR revisions2:13
PowerPoint Slides that describe the changes in DSM-5-TR in 2022
2 - New Disorder of Prolonged Grief & Unspecified Mood Issues3:25
Introduce the 2022 DSM-5 revisions, including prolonged grief disorder with 12 months of intrusive memories and impairment, and the unspecified mood disorder, with a preview of neurocognitive disorders.
3 - SIMND and Mild Mania Issues3:04
Explore the DSM-5 updates on stimulant-induced mild neurocognitive disorder (SIMND) and the spectrum of manic severity from mild to severe, with implications for diagnosis and functioning.
4 - Adjustment Disorder Additions and Delirium Clarifications4:00
Explore adjustment disorder revisions in dsm-5, distinguishing acute (less than six months) from persistent forms, and clarify delirium, including attention disturbance and reduced environmental awareness.
5 - Revisions to Linguistic Terms in the DSM3:30

Requirements

Anyone who is curious about the sorts of medical problems and psychotherapeutic techniques that buffer them from social and psychological stress.

Description

Common medical problems such as asthma (breathing problems), ulcers (holes in the lining of your stomach), insomnia (issues with lack of sleep), headaches (both migraine and muscle tension), hypertension (high blood pressure), cardiac blockage (heart trouble) and viruses (flu and colds) can and do interact with specific stressors in our lives. These stressors include: stressful situations (work) and events (public speaking), our unique personalities, everyday habits or behaviors and interactions with other people.

In this course, you will learn how to protect your body from damage due to stress. I will introduce you to several tried and true methods that can protect you from discomfort. You will learn much more about techniques such as: biofeedback, specific relaxation exercises, effective meditation tools, hypnosis, writing about your symptoms, cognitive training and ways that support groups (with other people who share similar problems) can bring lasting relief.

You will get an introduction and overview of the most successful methods for finding physical relief. Pick the treatments that you enjoy and will use most often. Practice the techniques that will give you the confidence that will take your coping skills to the next level. Free yourself from being a prisoner to chronic stress. Master your body and mind. Be the champion of your life.

Who this course is for:

Anyone with an interest in psychological topics and psychotherapy

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Course content

Introduction to Keeping Stress at Bay2 lectures • 17min

Common Problems6 lectures • 33min

Changes in the DSM-5-TR in 20225 lectures • 16min

Requirements

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