syllabus for coping with stress
COPING WITH STRESS
Suzanne S. Murphy ABD
Contact n: 718-862—7863
E mail – Suzanne.murphy@manhattan.edu
COURSE GOALS
This course helps the student understand that health of mind and body is intertwined. The mind has an enormous impact on the body and its health and well being.We are always running, always stressed out. This course should help us to open our eyes to the fact that we need to open our eyes to how we can achieve real health, if we take some of the insights we will be reading and discussing to heart.
ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES
1. To understand the Physiology of stress and know that you can’t cure it, but have to learn to live with it.
2. Understand various coping mechanisms.
3. Identify emotions like anger and fear and how they affect us mind and body
4. 4. Who of us is stress prone and who is stress resistant
5. Steps to institute Journal Writing as a way to vent or let off steam
6. Creative Problem solving
7. A better understanding of nutrition and physical exercise as a mind and body destressor
REQUIRED TEXT
Managing Stress , Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being by Brian Luke Seaward 6th edition, ISBN 978-0-7637-5614-7
COURSE GRADE DETERMINATION Final course grade will be a total of the following:
Attendance and Participation in the course 50%
Oral Present6ation on the 7th week 25%
Written Essay 25%
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1
Students will read Part 1, chaps 1, 2, and 3
The course will be discussed.
The students will be assigned a paper due the last week of the course.
It will consist of an eight page in depth paper on a particular problem, one related to the stress you have observed in your work place, and how to manage it. You can choose the business as a whole or your department in particular and of course, the people who work there. You will describe the problem, give an example of why you see stress. Then, using
Suzanne S. Murphy ABD
Contact n: 718-862—7863
E mail – Suzanne.murphy@manhattan.edu
COURSE GOALS
This course helps the student understand that health of mind and body is intertwined. The mind has an enormous impact on the body and its health and well being.We are always running, always stressed out. This course should help us to open our eyes to the fact that we need to open our eyes to how we can achieve real health, if we take some of the insights we will be reading and discussing to heart.
ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES
1. To understand the Physiology of stress and know that you can’t cure it, but have to learn to live with it.
2. Understand various coping mechanisms.
3. Identify emotions like anger and fear and how they affect us mind and body
4. 4. Who of us is stress prone and who is stress resistant
5. Steps to institute Journal Writing as a way to vent or let off steam
6. Creative Problem solving
7. A better understanding of nutrition and physical exercise as a mind and body destressor
REQUIRED TEXT
Managing Stress , Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being by Brian Luke Seaward 6th edition, ISBN 978-0-7637-5614-7
COURSE GRADE DETERMINATION Final course grade will be a total of the following:
Attendance and Participation in the course 50%
Oral Present6ation on the 7th week 25%
Written Essay 25%
COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1
Students will read Part 1, chaps 1, 2, and 3
The course will be discussed.
The students will be assigned a paper due the last week of the course.
It will consist of an eight page in depth paper on a particular problem, one related to the stress you have observed in your work place, and how to manage it. You can choose the business as a whole or your department in particular and of course, the people who work there. You will describe the problem, give an example of why you see stress. Then, using