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Managing Your Mood/Managing Stress.

26 Jan 2009

Learn new skills, tools and techniques to manage moods and emotions.

Actively Managing Your Mood

An eight-week course for staff of The University of Manchester
Starting Monday 2 February 2009, 1-2pm
In the Well–Being Room, Dover Street Building, Dover Street

Research shows that people with active coping styles (those who can tackle problems in a positive and straightforward manner) have lower levels of psychological distress. In addition, learning effective coping strategies reduces distress in the short term and provides long term protection against developing symptoms of stress.

In view of the potential long term benefits of managing stress in an effective way, it is important for us to develop these skills. This course can help you examine possible strategies for learning about and managing stress and mood fluctuations.

What does the course involve?

  • The course will look at how worrying about failure, avoidance of criticism and judgement, the high expectation we have of ourselves etc can lead to habitual ways of thinking and behaving.
       
  • We will discover how changes in behaviour, feeling, and thinking can help us to relate to ourselves and others in ways that are more constructive and how this helps us to feel less anxious.
       
  • We will be focussing mainly on

    - Anxiety
    - Low mood
    - Feeling irritable and on edge
    - Feeling overwhelmed, pressurised
       
  • It is important to attend all eight sessions if possible. If through illness or other unavoidable cause you cannot attend a session, please let the Counselling Service know.

To register: