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Stress Management
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:08.11.2021 16:03:20
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LUSDK_005 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; General Psychology | Target Audience: | Social Welfare and Social Work | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilze Dreifelde | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Welfare and Social Work | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anniņmuižas boulevard, socdk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061575 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide Master students with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge and competence in the scientific concept of stress, and to improve their understanding of and skills in stress management – management and prevention possibilities. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Stress – body adaptation syndrome. Pathogenesis of stress, mechanism for response formation. Post-traumatic stress. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Overview of the latest neuroscience studies on the psychophysiology of the brain in a stress situation. Watching the film “The Human Brain” and a seminar on its content. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Psychophysiology of emotions. Origin, functions, expression of emotions in the body and behaviour. Most characteristic examples. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Stress management and prevention. Overview of studies. Conservation of resources theory. Anxiety. Anxiety management. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Concept of burnout. Burnout management and prevention. Empathy fatigue. Self-help concept in social work. Supervision. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Basic skills of awareness practice in managing stress and burnout. Self-compassion. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Stress – body adaptation syndrome. Pathogenesis of stress, mechanism for response formation. Post-traumatic stress. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Overview of the latest neuroscience studies on the psychophysiology of the brain in a stress situation. Watching the film “The Human Brain” and a seminar on its content. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Psychophysiology of emotions. Origin, functions, expression of emotions in the body and behaviour. Most characteristic examples. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Stress management and prevention. Overview of studies. Conservation of resources theory. Anxiety. Anxiety management. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Concept of burnout. Burnout management and prevention. Empathy fatigue. Self-help concept in social work. Supervision. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Basic skills of awareness practice in managing stress and burnout. Self-compassion. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Active participation in classes and practical classes – 20%, independent literature analysis for innovative research material – 40%; study presentation – 20%; preparation of an essay – 20%. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Examination – a written analysis of one internationally cited study, publication on one of the topics learned during the study course and its presentation; test – essay “Self-management of stress and/or burnout”. Criteria for the study analysis work – topicality – 50%, clear presentation of the study design – 30%, originality of the conclusions section – 20%. Essay volume – not less than 3 pages. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Master students are able to name the basic principles and concepts/terminology of stress, understand and are able to explain the common and different features of the concept of “stress, anxiety, burnout, post-traumatic stress, fatigue”, stress management and prevention methods, understand the aspects of stress in social work and in the environment of helping professions. Understand the importance of supervision in stress management in social work. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Master students are able to choose and apply appropriate stress prevention and management techniques in social work. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Master students are able to recognise various manifestations and symptoms of stress in their physical and emotional health, as well as the effects of stress in their professional activity. Master students are competent to recognise the triggers of their personal stress and are able to implement stress self-management in a targeted way. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nefa, K. Līdzjūtība pret sevi. Avots, Rīga 2014. | ||||||||
| 2 | Payne, M. Modern Social Work Theory. 2014. | ||||||||
| 3 | Изард, К. Э. Психология эмоций. Питер. 2003. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Supervīzija sociālajā darbā. Supervizora rolasgrāmata. LU, 2007. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hobfoll, S. E. Conservation of resources: A new attempt at conceptualizing stress. American Psychologist, 44, 513-524. 1989. | ||||||||
| 3 | Figley, C. R. Compassion Fatigue. Routledge. 2015. | ||||||||
| 4 | Freudenberger, H. J. Staff bumout. Journal of Social Issues, 30, 159-164. 1974 | ||||||||
| 5 | Hawkins, P. Supervision in the helping Professions. An individual, group and organizational approach. Open University Press: Buckingham, Philadelphia. 2020. | ||||||||
| 6 | Ozoliņa, Nucho A., Vidnere, M. Stress: tā pārvarēšana un profilakse. Biznesa Partneri, 2004. | ||||||||
| 7 | Maslach, C. A multidimensional theory of burnout. In C. L. Cooper (Ed.), Theories of organizational stress (pp. 68-85). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2000. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_5myLhhzwE (The Human Brain) | ||||||||
| 2 | http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/articles/nicamb_mindfu… | ||||||||
