Essay on Stress Management

Post traumatic stress disorder is one of the least researched psychiatric diseases(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). This mental health condition can be developed by anyone, have a severe impact on the brain, and has minimal treatment methods. PTSD is a disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event, and this can ruin their life forever. Even though the disease itself is not a killer, the effects it has on the body can be fatal. PTSD is caused by a…

Stress is around us every single day. We absorb it from others, generate it ourselves, and perpetuate this rather vicious cycle by subjecting others to our personal angst. The idea that we the average American citizen, living in a relatively "peaceful" environment are or should be free of it is laughable to me. Perhaps we aren 't experiencing the same level or degree/ quantity as a soldier on the front line fighting on foreign land, fair enough. Yet the physiological signs are undeniably present…

Report on Matthew J. Friedman’s Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Disorder Heather L. Rutherford Liberty University Matthew J. Friedman’s Posttraumatic and Acute Stress Disorder Chapter 1: Overview of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Chapter 3: Global Treatment Issues for PTSD Chapter 4: Psychological Treatments for PTSD Chapter 5: Pharmacological Treatments for PTSD Chapter 6: Strategies for Acute Stress Reactions and Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) Summary In chapter 1 the author (Friedman, 2015)…

titled “Work stress and job performance evaluation of BPO employees” have analyzed the stress factors in BPO sector. Data were collected through a questionnaire addressing on the issues, such as salary, Job task, work environment, colleagues, late night shift and workload. The findings revealed that a majority of 195 employees agreed that late night shift is the main source of their stress. It also identified that women get more stressed out than men. The study concluded that increased stress…

The topic of stress management is an important topic to discuss due to the demanding profession of social work. Social workers work with a variety of clients within various populations, therefore, they experience different feeling and emotions that can go along with assisting their clients. Wheeler & McClain (2015) explains how severe the trauma is that the client is experiencing can affect the social worker and they may experience secondary trauma stress (STS). The summary of this article is…

occupational stress such as Role overload, Role ambiguity, Role conflict, group pressures, low profitability, under participation, low status, responsibility for people, intrinsic impoverishment, strenuous work, poor peer relations and powerlessness. Non Work Stresses Besides the stressors prevailing in work setting, a number of non-work or off the job factors are the indirect sources of occupational stress. Models of work and non work stress (Bhagat et al. 1985) posed that "the total amount of…

current jobs due to burnout, which is caused by being overwhelmed and high interpersonal stress due to their work (Arnett, 2016). Another factor of work related stress includes dealing with unemployment after one involuntarily leaves their job and cannot manage to find another job (Arnett, 2016). Midlife adults tend to be unemployed longer than young adults (Arnett, 2016). Another threat to stress is financial stress, which is also unavoidable. No one enjoys dealing with their finances and…

Introduction Work-related stress is a universal problem of current life which has reached all over the world and encountered almost all vocations. It can have detrimental effects on many people’s lives, and there are distinct factors in modern society responsible for. Stress can lead to many consequences such as less self-confidence, worse performance, and even suicide. Being known as detrimental to people's health as well as affect them in many aspects of life, the work-related stress can be…

S Michie, (2012) Stress has been defined in different ways over the years. Originally, it was conceived of as pres- sure from the environment, then as strain within the person. The generally accepted definition today is one of interaction between the situation and the individual. It is the psychological and physical state that results when the resources of the individual are not sufficient to cope with the demands and pressures of the situation. Thus, stress is more likely in some…

Obenchain, J. (2014). Treatment of Vietnam War veterans with PTSD: A comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, biofeedback, and relaxation training. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 337-341. This article presents a study of Vietnam Soldiers receiving inpatient treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. The author points out the lack of EMDR, biofeedback, and relaxation training after criticism was elaborated on. The lack of literature known by government officials and…