...Through all the assessments I’ve taken so far such as: What Is Your Jungian Typology? How Productive Are You? Locus of Control, I got results that didn’t surprise me because I figured that’s what I would’ve gotten. From the Are You Experiencing Burnout? Assessment I learned that I was quite stressed out. I feel like after living the same routine everyday it becomes a part of you. You get so used to it and that stress becomes a part of normal life. I work and go to school, which is hard alone, but adding other life circumstances that not everyone gets to deal with is extremely tough. From that assessment it made me realize that I need to relax, take care of my well-being, and try to eliminate whatever I can that might be adding on to my stress level which will be leading me to experience burnout. As for my stress level assessment, all the things that I clicked yes to are all part of life. Things that many or few experience. At a young age of losing my mother, I’ve become a person of handling circumstances that come my way better than most. I’ve been through and seen a lot that I’ve become a strong person. All these assessments made me realize that I need to slow down, and take a breather because I’m stressing more than I know. From this professional plan I plan to focus on both my personal and professional life. Some people separate their personal life from their work life, but I always seem to have trouble separating the two. If something is bothering me personally I...
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...of Stress in College Students Tracy Thomas Professor Evans ENG 115 March 20, 2014 "The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Survey estimates that mental disease, including stress-related disorders, will be the second leading cause of disabilities by the year 2020" (World Health Organization: 1990). In today's fast paced society it is common for people to experience stress in various aspects of their lives. Due to the ever evolving and increasing amounts of responsibilities the average college student has to manage on a daily basis, there is an urgent need for appropriate stress management skills in the following main causes of stress in a college student’s life: personal, academic, and financial. Let's further clarify these areas. Personal - balance of family and social life; academic - challenge of maintaining mandatory GPA; financial - stress of the cost of education and the need to garner and maintain gainful employment to cover these costs. Academic success is contingent upon the student's ability to properly manage these top causes of stress by implementing a regiment of academic time management, dietary and social health wellness routines, and by consistently harnessing available resource networks. Let’s consider how the effects of stress impact the economy. Although the term "stress" is used in a wide variety of contexts, it has consistently been proven that individuals with stress and...
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...During times of our lives we deal with stress. For instance, we stress about things from home, financial situations, and jobs as well. I took two self-assessments based on How vulnerable am I to stress and Stressful events in my life. Based off the two assessments, it showed how stressed I was and couldn’t handle it. I know in dealt with stress in the past and also dealing with it right now. I try to find many ways with coping with my stress by exercising or doing other things to reduce the excessive tension. The term stress is the response of individuals to stressors. Stressors are events that threaten individuals and tax their coping abilities. My coping abilities were threaten twice over a year ago. For Instance, I had major damages to my vehicle where I couldn’t drive for almost 2 months. I didn’t cope with it very well because the only thing was through my mind how I was going to get back and forth to work and school. On a daily, I started to concern myself more on how I was going to get the money to get the car fixed. By doing that made things worst. The second stressor was being unemployed for 6 months. At times I did well with it and other times I didn’t cope with it well. I wasn’t worried because I thought I could always go back to my previous job in 3 months and was fine financially. Then I found out we were moving once again and that to concern to me because my mom didn’t have enough to handle the moving by herself. I stressed because, I dislike seeing my mom struggle...
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...Stress at Work A report prepared for The Work Foundation’s Principal Partners Ricardo Blaug Amy Kenyon Rohit Lekhi Contents Executive Summary Introduction 1. What is stress? 1.1 Defining stress 1. Explaining stress 1.3 Stress and ill-health 2. An epidemic of stress? .1 The extent of stress . The costs of stress .3 The victims of stress .4 The causes of stress 3. Why now? 3.1 Stress, work and contemporary life 3. Stress and happiness 3.3 Stress and social status 4. The sceptics 4.1 Problems of method and measurement 4. Putting stress in perspective 4.3 Therapy culture? 5. Legal and policy contexts 5.1 Stress and the law 5. Stress and public policy 6. Interventions 6.1 What does the evidence say? 6. Focussing on prevention Conclusion Bibliography 4 12 14 14 17 19 25 5 6 8 31 35 35 38 43 47 47 5 58 62 6 68 71 71 79 88 89 Stress at Work List of Tables, Figures and Boxes Table 1: Effects of stress on bodily functions Figure 1: Model of work-related stress Figure : The impact of workplace demands on physiological and psychological performance Figure 3: How stressful is your work environment? Figure 4: Overwork concern in organisations Figure 5: Self-reported Illness accentuated by work Figure 6: Estimated days lost due to self-reported work-related injury or illness Figure 7: Work-related mental ill-health Figure 8: Percentage of organisations where workers identify stress to be the leading hazard of concern by sector Figure 9: Percentage reporting...
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...Samantha Parker October 9, 2014 Personality Type Traits of an ENFP The results of my personality type assessment were ENFP which means extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving. After doing some research I realized the characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses were a very accurate judgment of my personality. It’s interesting that when a few simple questions are answered the consummation can sum up an entire personality of an individual. Some of the characteristics of my personality type include impulsive, creative, impatient, enthusiastic, procrastination, and animated. Some good and some not so good but in all it describes me. My mother has told me my entire life that I’m animated. She used to tell me to try and talk with my hands behind my back as a joke and I would actually stutter and fumble my words. I find it impossible to speak without my body especially my hands. I’m very impulsive and this seems to go both ways with me. For instance I might wake up one day and decide that I want to go to the beach and invite my friends and have a random yet memorable outing. Unfortunately I forgot to check my bank account and get to the beach and realize I can’t buy anything. I seem to do a lot of things without thinking them all the way through. I also tend to get bored easy and what was once a project I committed myself to is now left unfinished and uninteresting. Impatience and procrastination are the two that seem to be a downfall for me. You would think an impatient...
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...Reducing Stress in Young Adults with Burn Injuries Student ID #: 1358437 University of Alberta Reducing Stress in Young Adults with Burn Injuries Burn injuries affecting young adults (20-39 years old) can negatively affect their physical, emotional and psychological health, specifically creating stress. To achieve optimal health and equilibrium in the body, the body utilizes different mechanisms to ensure that it compensates and restores its function (Day et al., 2010). However, external or internal factors caused by stress can affect this equilibrium. According to Day et al (2010., p. 94) stress is “a state produced by a change in the environment that is perceived as challenging, threatening or damaging to a person’s dynamic balance or equilibrium”. When the body responds to stress it is trying to protect itself and stress can even help young adults in being more productive, energetic and focused (Potter & Perry., 2010). However, if an individual is not able to cope with the stress then the changes in their state can physiologically, biologically and emotionally affect...
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...Running Head: Burnout 1. Burnout Kayla Casey BSHS: 462 Jamie Laurson Burnout 2. Burnout is an issue that a person sees in a stressful job such as a job in the human service fields. In this paper you will understand the factors of burnout as well as methods that can prevent burnout. Burnout can be physical, mental, or emotional problem that an employee can experience when under stress at their job (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2007). This does not just go for the employee but this can also been seen in the supervisors, managers, and owners. There are behavioral signs and symptoms of burnout. There are some physical signs that you can look for such as the person looking drained, fatigued, physical complaints, and frequent absences (Smith, Jaffe-Gill, Segal, & Segal, 2008). Some emotional signs that a person may notice are helplesness, decreased satisfications, feeling of failure, and detachment (Smith, Jaffe-Gill, Segal, & Segal, 2008). Behavioral signs that a person may notice are isolation, use of food and or drugs, procrastination, abusing alcohol to cope with work, and increased absences (Smith, Jaffe-Gill, Segal, & Segal, 2008). When one is showing signs of burnout out this may be because of lack of social support, cultural...
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...Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Services Tiffany Monroe BSHS/462- Effective Management of Human Service Organization May 20, 2013 Latera Davis Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Services The human service field faces a major issue of burnout among their employees. In this paper I will define burnout and describe some of the factors of burnout. I will examine my own personality and share my reactions and responses to personal and work related stress. I will also discuss my response to an employee burnout as a human service manager. Burnout According to Johnson and Stone (1987), burnout refers to a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion resulting from involvement with people in emotionally demanding situations (p. 67). There are three major factors of burnout: emotional exhaustion, feeling of low personal accomplishment with clients, and a sense of depersonalization or possessing an uncaring attitude towards clients. When an employee shows physical burnout signs, this includes the appearance of fatigue, frequent absentees from work, having physical complaints, and weight loss. Behavioral signs of burnout include isolation, withdrawal from work responsibilities, procrastination, the use of alcohol, drugs, over eating of food, frequent outbursts of anger toward other workers, and increase absentee from work. Emotional signs include feeling helpless, personal failure, detachment from work and others, decrease of satisfaction, and an increase...
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...Services Ashley James BSHS/462 January 28, 2013 Linda Latson Causes and Prevention of Burnout in Human Services Burnout is a serious problem that mostly occurs in high stress level jobs. Burnouts are very popular in the Human Services field since it contains a lot of high intensity jobs. The definition of burnout, what causes burnout, burnout prevention, personal reactions and responses to high-stress situations, and ways to reduce personal and work-related burnout will be discussed in this paper. Ideas of how to respond and react to employee burnout as a human services manager will follow. Burnout is the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. This includes physical, mental, or emotional, that an individual experiences when under extreme stress. Burnout can be split into three major features which include emotional exhaustion, feelings of decreased successful outcomes with clients, and increased feelings of being de-sensitized to the needs of clients (Lewis, Packard, & Lewis, 2007). How pressure is dealt with depends on how much stress an individual feels. It also depends on how close the individual is to burnout. An individual experience a little stress and may not be able to handle it well and experience burnout, a posed to another individual who may experience a lot of stress and may be able to deal with it and avoid burnout. Drained appearance and fatigue may be signs of Burnout has many causes which may be related to job structure, lifestyle...
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...1 AC 19‐3‐2012 Item No.4.17 University of Mumbai Revised Syllabus for the S.Y.B.A. Program: B.A. Course: Psychology Semester III & IV (As per Credit Based Semester and Grading System with effect from the academic year 2012–2013) 2 Programme – Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) Credit Based Semester and Grading System S.Y.B.A. Psychology Syllabi To be implemented from the Academic year 2012-2013 Semester III Course Course Code Title UAPSY301 Social Psychology: Part I UAPSY302 Developmental Psychology: Part I Units 1. The Field of Social Psychology 2. Social Cognition 3. Social Perception 4. Attitudes 1.Introduction - Beginnings 2.The Start of Life; Birth and the Newborn Infant 3.Physical Development in Infancy 4.Cognitive Development in Infancy Credits 3 Marks 100 ( 60 +40) 100 ( 60 +40) 3 Semester IV Course Course Code Title UAPSY401 Social Psychology Part II Units 1. Stereotyping, Prejudice and Discrimination 2. Social Influence 3. Aggression 4. Groups and Individuals 1. Physical, Social and Personality Development in the Preschool Years 2. Cognitive Development in Pre-school years 3. Physical, Social and Personality Development in Middle Childhood 4. Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood Credits 3 Marks 100 ( 60 +40) UAPSY402 Developmental Psychology: Part II 3 100 ( 60 +40) UAPSY 301 Semester III. Social Psychology: Part I (Credits = 3) 3 lectures per week; 45 lectures per Semester Objectives: 1. To impart knowledge of the basic concepts and...
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...This assignment is based upon stress, the bio-psychosocial approach on how stress can affect health, well-being and the maintenance of homeostasis. There are many definitions of stress but the majority of definitions put emphasis on the relationship between the individual and the environment. This is called the bio-psychosocial approach. When treating patients the Practitioner should take a more holistic approach when determining the type of treatment that is required, this would include taking into account the patients lifestyle, environment and social support. The World Health Organisation states that ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. (WHO 1948). Stress can be defined as any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain. However, there are many types of stress and not all types of stress are harmful or negative. One theory is that stress is the result of a persons appraisal process. The assessment of whether personal resources are sufficient to meet the demands of the environment. Stress has been identified as being the individuals ability to adapt to the environment (Lazarus and Folkman 1984; Lazarus and Launer 1978; Pervin 1989). There are two types of stress response which Lazarus (1966) made a distinction between, these are psychological and physiological stress. Lazarus stated that physiological stress is a response to a physical damage already incurred...
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...essay will look at three different change management interventions, employee stress and wellness intervention, reward systems intervention and goal setting intervention, and will then assess the strengths and weaknesses of each intervention, taking into account which one will be the best option for addressing some of the problems identified. The goal setting intervention, as the chosen intervention, will then be analysed, addressing what resistance may be expected upon its implementation at Office Tigers, the best way to overcome this resistance, and how to know if it the intervention has been successfully institutionalized into the organisation and as a result, has improved its performance and effectiveness (Cummings & Worley, 2008, p. 161). Analysis of selected interventions Each of the interventions that will be critically analysed are human resources (HR) management interventions. A HR management intervention aims to solve the problems created by HR issues. These issues revolve around ‘attracting competent people to the organisation, setting goals for them, appraising and rewarding their performance, and ensuring that they develop their careers and manage stress’ (Cummings & Worley, 2008, p. 154 para. 6). Each of these interventions are appropriate and beneficial on an individual or group level. Employee Stress and Wellness (Human Resources Management Intervention) The amount of job stress an employee has, and the effect it has on their general...
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...Assessment Analysis Paper Gentina Thompson NUR440: Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population September 22, 2014 Assessment tools are a necessary part of everyday nursing care. They provide the nurse with measurable means of keeping inventory of a patient’s physical progression from shift to shift. Assessment tools like the Braden scale which assess the patient’s skin quality; along with the falls risk scale that assess how high the patient’s chances are for falling; are two common assessment tools used worldwide. Along with these physical assessment tools are an array of non-physical assessment tools used to evaluate anything from the patient’s coping skills to evaluating their stress level. Three popular ones are the daily hassle scale, Beck depression inventory, and the perceived stress scale. All three of these scales are imperative in finding out what kind of state the patient is in cognitively. Daily hassles are defined as “irritating, frustrating demands that occur during everyday interactions with the environment (Wright et al., 2010). Daily hassles are normally those daily interactions with family or friends that have regular occurrences; however are more difficult when trying to determine a beginning and an end. The Kanner Hassel scale is the most commonly used it generates eight scores on eight dimensions of time, pressure, work, financial responsibilities, health, neighborhood/environment, inner concerns, household responsibilities, and future security...
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...1. Discussion Stress can be define as physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension, and a situation, occurrence, or factor causing this. The word “stress” actually comes from a Latin word meaning, “distress.” Stress affects everybody in the society. Today, more people suffer from stress than ever before. The pace of life is stressful in itself. People expect to manage the major life changes and crises without the network of support that previous generations relied upon. For some, stress may not be related to specific events, but may have developed in early childhood as an anxiety response to difficult situations. This response may have been carried into adult life as the characteristic way of dealing with difficulties. One in every four people seeks treatment for stress at some time in their lives. While some workplace stress is normal, excessive stress can interfere with employees’ productivity and impact employees’ physical and emotional health. Signs of stress can be seen in people's behaviour, especially in changes in behaviour. Signs and symptoms of excessive job and workplace stress are feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed, loss of interest in work, problems sleeping, fatigue, trouble concentrating, muscle tension or headaches, stomach problems, and social withdrawal. Situations that are likely to cause stress are unpredictable or uncontrollable. Stress may be caused by time limited events, such as the pressures of examinations or work deadlines, or by ongoing...
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...Dictionary defines burnout as “Exhaustion of physical or emotional strengths or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration” (Merriam-Dictionary, 2011). Describe individual, cultural, organizational, supervisory, and social support factors that cause burnout Individual factors Burnout in an individual can happen at different times to different people. A few factors that can contribute to burnout are a person’s upbringing, expectations, or personalities. One of the worst insults to believe would be to think you are useless and lesser than others. An individual can put too much on him or herself by setting unrealistic career goals and without any sense of direction disturbed emotions evolve, and increased tendency to think negatively increase. As a result they start to become the person others want him or her to be. Cultural An example of cultural burnout could be moving into an unfamiliar culture. Different cultures might not understand the cultural differences of certain communities. Developing skills to adapt to someone else’s customs can be challenging and stressful. The perceptions of others play a vital role for many, especially when we experience a diminishing sense of community. Our goal to fit into a competitive environment can be frustrating, particularly if faced with one’s potential of work. Organizational Stress can influence many stages of daily life and is very dominant in the job force. Many factors can have emotional strain...
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