Teaching stress management

Teaching stress management techniques to a schizophrenic patient.

This paper describes a stress management training program used with a 26-year-old schizophrenic man attending an outpatient day care program. In a seven-session program the patient was taught to use various techniques in muscle relaxation and biofeedback to decrease anxiety and to cope with stress. The patient's improvement on 7 of the 20 items of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory demonstrated ...

The effects of teaching stress management skills on the quality of life in ICU nurses

Introduction: Job stress is one of the main factors in decreasing productivity in organizations and the leading cause of psychosomatic disorders in personnel. Since job stress of nurses working in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is considered as an important segment in health and medical systems, it significantly affects the quality of care and the nurse’s quality of life. To this end, the purpose ...

Teaching healthy anger management.

TOPIC Teaching anger management in the community. PURPOSE To describe anger management and offer guidelines for assessing potential participants and teaching healthy behaviors. SOURCES Drawing from the literature, more than 10 years of quantitative and qualitative studies by our research team, and 5 years of experience in conducting anger management groups, the author presents basic princip...

the effects of teaching stress management skills on the quality of life in icu nurses

introduction: job stress is one of the main factors in decreasing productivity in organizations and the leading cause of psychosomatic disorders in personnel. since job stress of nurses working in intensive care units (icus) is considered as an important segment in health and medical systems, it significantly affects the quality of care and the nurse’s quality of life. to this end, the purpose ...

Information Management: Concept, Teaching, Applications