Cuyahoga Community College
ZPDI1085 - Stress Management: Wellness Strategies for Personal and Professional Self-Care
Course Description
Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. It’s the body’s natural reaction to sudden changes or challenges.
While our bodies are equipped to handle small doses of stress, we do not have the ability to schedule when these challenges arise. We can, however, work to prevent stress and manage how we handle the long-term stresses brought upon us to reduce the physical consequences that stress can have on our health.
This course is designed to help individuals and teams better understand, manage, and reduce stress in the workplace. Participants will learn how to monitor and measure stress levels and recognize common stress symptoms, enabling early identification of stress-related issues. The session will explore the seven key stress factors that impact productivity, providing insights into how each contributes to workplace tension.
Practical strategies will be introduced to help manage stress and prevent burnout, focusing on proactive and sustainable approaches. Finally, the course emphasizes long-term well-being by introducing the four key areas of resiliency, guiding participants in developing healthy, lasting habits to support personal and professional growth.
As part of this engagement, participants will complete a validated stress assessment. This assessment looks at seven stress factors that impact stress levels in the workplace and is used to evaluate individual and collective team stress. Individual data is not shared with anyone else in the group. For group engagements, we will cover the collective data which will show the results in aggregate, but not at the individual level.
Course Outline
- Part 1: Examine Factors Impacting Wellness
- Part 2: Understand the 7 Stress Factors
- Monitor and Measure Stress
- Evaluate Stress Symptoms
- Part 3: Create a Self-Care Action Plan
Learner Outcomes
- Action planning for accountability
- Resource options for long-term sustainability
- Overview of the stress assessment - The assessment can be taken before or after the session