Practical Stress Management

Catalog description

Emphasizes how stress affects human health and behavior. Stress can affect a person psychologically, emotionally, and physically. The course will examine how stress affects such diseases as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. Stress can also be related to environmental factors such as job and family life. Stephen Covey’s First Things First and The Four Quadrants of Time Management will be discussed as a possible means to help students alleviate stress. Type A and Type B personalities will be examined, and students will learn stress management techniques which will aid them in dealing with stress on a daily basis. MOD 2615 Critical Thinking for Managers (3 hours) This course helps students learn to think clearly, concisely, and analytically, through a familiarity with the Critical Literacy Theory. Students learn how to define terms, formulate arguments, and analyze statements critically and objectively. MOD 2620 Managing Stress (3 hours) This course provides an overview of the underlying causes of stress and how stress affects health. The course focuses upon stress reducing techniques such as time management, as described by Steven Covey.