Managing Stress

The sessions in this programme have been designed to:

– Increase self-esteem, self-concept, cooperation and empathy

– Enable students to understand how a positive attitude towards change can minimise stress

– Understand the nature and causes of stress, and how stress is person-specific

– Enable students to recognise their own optimum stress levels

– Recognise reactions and behaviours which both reduce and increase stress

– Develop joint problem-solving skills within a supportive framework

– Understand the importance of emotional support in coping effectively with stress

– Understand how a healthy lifestyle can reduce stress

– Develop the ability to organise work and social agendas to reduce stress

– Understand the difference between aggression and assertion

– Develop and practise assertiveness skills, understanding how such skills can help manage stress

– Understand how stress can adversely affect muscles and breathing

– Increase students’ levels of confidence in social interactions and in their own ability to cope

– Develop skills of reflection

– Enable students to set realistic and considered personal goals.

Ages: 12-19