Less Stress, Better Health
Mental Health Essentials: Mood, Eating, Sleep, and Stress
Psychology of Disorders Related to Trauma, Anxiety, and Stress
PsycLearn Essentials
Student Success
January 2024
Stress can take a toll on us both mentally and physically. APA’s Less Stress, Better Health can help you understand what stress is, how it changes the way you think about yourself and your world, how it can impair your self-control and damage your relationships, and how it negatively impacts your cardiovascular and immune systems. More importantly, the course also provides you with science-backed techniques for coping with stress and building resilience. Stress is unavoidable, but this course can help you deal with it in effective, positive ways.
Learning objectives
- Define stress.
- Identify common causes of stress.
- Identify common symptoms of stress.
- Explain the psychological consequences of stress.
- Explain the social consequences of stress.
- Explain the physiological consequences of stress.
- Explain how to reduce the impact of stress on daily life.
This program does not offer CE credit.
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