360° Stress Management and Career Adjustment

Background

Everyone experiences stress but at different levels. When severe, stress negatively affect the person’s ways of thinking, emotional reactions, behavior and performance, work-life balance, and overall health. Stress is a known trigger for many problems that includes chronic diseases, sleep disorders, anxiety-related disorders, PTSD symptoms, forms of depression, vulnerability to drug use (substance use disorder), violence, career difficulties, and at extreme level many cases of suicide and sudden death.

In workplaces, violent incidents are caused by those who are under severe and persistent stress and have lost the capacity to cope. Therefore, preventing and controlling stress help to reduce the manifestation of psychological disorders and incidences of irrational and maladaptive behaviors.

Participating in our 360° Stress management course will also benefit early career people who are often technically smart but experience career difficulties and burnout due to the mismatch between their technical competence and psychological skills. Many are unable to cope with human-factor issues at work. They get overwhelmed by expectations and the realities of coping with career and life demands.

Emerging trend indicates that formal education does not seem to sufficiently prepare people (young and old) to cope with life and career pressures. Hence, the 360° stress management course which offers a smart approach to intervention that starts and ends with the individual. It is available for those who seek new ways to manage stress and career difficulties.

After the course, participants would be able to:

• Analyse and identify their stressors.
• Understand the broad consequences of stress.
• Develop anger management and emotional intelligence skills.
• Develop smart psychosocial coping skills.
• Develop 360° action guide.
• Connect learning with their lived experience and be sufficiently skilled to deal with the issues that affect their adjustment, healthy work-life balance, relationships, and general wellbeing.

Course Contents

The broad areas to be covered in the course are:

• Psychosocial analysis and dynamics of stress.
• Developing smart psychosocial skills and career self-intervention techniques.
• Anger management.
• Application of Emotional Intelligence.
• The 360° coping strategies and action guide.

Course Delivery

Mode: The classes are Virtual/Online. Onsite delivery is available based on organizational request.

Facilitator(s): Psychologists with professional practice experience.

Registration: Participants are required to register early for the 3-day course.

Course fees: 745AED ($200).

Date: 3-5 April, 2025.