Course Catalog • Social Welfare

Covers major stress-management techniques, helping others cope with stress, and promoting wellness. Concepts, theories and models of stress, psychological basis for stress, relationship between personality and stress, family and social stress, job stress, dissatisfaction, and burnout are discussed. Offered only through Continuing Education. Students must be admitted to the division or school of Social Welfare. Five written assignments; a stress-management project; final examination. Instructor: Allan Press.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Rice. Stress and Health, 3rd ed., Brooks/Cole, 1999.
• Press and Osterkamp. Stress? Find Your Balance, 4th ed., Preventive Measures, 2006.
• CD: Finding Your Balance: Deep-muscle Relaxation Exercise and Meditation Exercise, Preventive Measures, 2006.