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Unit number: STM
105
Unit title: Relaxation
and Stress Reduction
Credit value: 3 credits
Description: Many people enter counselling or therapy because they are stressed, and the helper needs to have a broad knowledge of stress and also of stress reduction techniques. Stress Management is practised by some people as a stand-alone form of professional helping, and is a useful set of skills to add to any counselling, helping or complementary therapy field. The set text for this unit provides an excellent introduction to what stress is and how to cope with it, plus instructions in many areas of stress reduction. The following categories of intervention are presented, each with clear how-to-do-it instructions:
Breathing exercises
Progressive relaxation
Meditation
Visualisation
Applied relaxation
Self-hypnosis
Autogenics
Brief combination techniques
Making relaxation tapes
Refuting irrational ideas
Thought stopping techniques
Worry control
Coping skills
Goal setting and time management
Assertiveness
Coping with job stress
Simple nutrition
Exercise
These techniques provide useful content for conducting classes and groups, using specific techniques in therapy sessions according to the client's needs, using some of these techniques as "icebreakers" to build rapport with the client, and using them as a complement to other therapies which you might be practising. Many of these techniques might be useful as "homework" assignments for clients, and the information about job stress and stress in general will help you work with the client to find out where their major causes of stress lie.
You will have the textbook as a handy reference book and you can refresh your knowledge of any of the skills whenever you need to. For this course, you do not need to master all of the techniques but you will be asked to study a selection of them.
Key textbook: Davis, Eshelman and McKay, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. Fifth edition, 2000. New Harbinger Publications Inc, 2000.
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