PSYC 113 - Stress Management for Life

3 Credits
This course explores various techniques used to manage stress and promote personal health throughout life. Students will develop career skills useful for assisting health care clients in reducing stress. Various techniques that can be used in life to promote a sense of inner control and balance will also be provided.

Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Explore the role of stress in the development or exacerbation of many diseases and states of psychological or behavioral dysfunction, and support these arguments with scientific evidence.
2. Compare the mechanisms by which specific stress management techniques improve physical and psychological functioning.
3. Evaluate the role of exercise and lifestyle alterations as means of reducing stress.
4. Create a personal plan for managing stress, following an appraisal of life patterns at school, in the workplace, in the family, and in society.
5. Critique themselves and their peers in the delivery of quality instruction of a variety of stress management techniques.