
Explore the stress phenomenon, its stages, and the biochemical and bio-psycho-social factors, and learn practical guidelines, methods, and techniques to manage work and life stress through stress management.
Gain a deeper understanding of stress and practical guidelines, and receive two certificates of completion—one from Udemy and one from us—plus downloadable materials for ongoing use.
Define stress as the universal body response to stressors, covering its physiological and biochemical aspects, distinguish stress from distress, and describe the two-way dynamic interaction between personality and environment.
Explain three stages of the stress response, detailing how the body activates stress, releases hormones, raises blood pressure and sugar, weakens immune function, and progresses to exhaustion as stress persists.
Identify psychosocial risk factors in the workplace, such as workload, control, support, and harassment. Learn to manage these demands and improve safety through clear communication and role clarity.
Explore bio-psycho-social stress changes and workplace signs, including emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions, sleep issues, irritability, and presenteeism, plus long-term health risks.
Learn to manage stress by addressing four levels through nutrition, activity, sleep, and lifestyle choices. Practice healthy eating, daily movement, seven to eight hours of sleep, and avoid nicotine.
Set time for social life with friends, and avoid work talk or emails. Propose to your boss a plan to improve time management, support, and meaningful tasks to reduce stress.
Hello and welcome to our stress management certification course. I am Gloria Dimitrova and I will be your lecturer in the upcoming training. The aim of the course is to gain a more in-depth understanding of the subject, to offer you practical guidelines, methods, and techniques to deal with stress. In the upcoming lectures, we will introduce you to stress phenomenon, Hans Selye's contributions to stress description and differentiation, his views on the stages of a person experiencing stress, the physiology of stress, changes in the biochemical level in the body, stress at work, its causes, as well as the risk factors that trigger and deepen the stressful experiences, the risk factors associated with stress outside the workplace, the bio-psycho-social stress changes and the four levels through which we can manage and influence the stress and the appropriate steps for that. Thank you for your attention and wish you pleasant and fruitful minutes with our training.
With this course you will receive:
10 downloadable materials which can be used for diagnostic purposes.
Certificate of completion from Udemy.
Certificate of completion about Stress Management.
The second certificate is granted by the psychologist of our team: Valentin Boyadzhiev - a trained nutritionist from 2011, graduated Master of Psychology in "Psychology and Psychopathology of Development" from 2016; acquired a Professional Qualification "Teacher of Psychology" in 2017; with a Postgraduate Professional Qualification "Psychological Counseling in Psychosomatic and Social Adaptation Disorders" from 2017. Since 2018 - a member of the Association "Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Space". Since 2019 - a member of "International Society of Applied Psychoanalysis" and „International Alliance of Holistic Therapists“. Since 2011 - a lecturer on issues related to nutrition, diet, supplementation, food and nutritional supplements, sports and more. Since 2016 - teacher of psychology, logic, ethics, law, and philosophy and a lecturer on psychology. From 2017 - a school psychologist of children and pupils from 5 to 18 years of age. Participated annually in scientific conferences on psychology, psychotherapy, dietetics, medicine, and others. Past through many other pieces of training and seminars. His main interest and practice is in the field of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology.