Southampton City
Managing Stress
A step 2 course using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques for stress reduction and management.
The five week course covers a range of topics to help you manage stress in everyday life, including:
Understanding stress
Introduction to stress and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
How to begin making changes
How stress affects our body/ physical symptoms
Focusing on how stress affects us physically, and the reasons behind this
The importance of diet
The benefits of physical activity
Visualisation exercise
The role of behaviours
To help understand how our behaviour can change when we feel stressed.
Rumination Tool
Problem Solving
Mindful Breathing
The role of thoughts in stress
Focusing on how unhelpful thoughts change when we feel stressed.
Thought Challenging
To understand worry and strategies to help manage it
Next Steps
Tips to improve sleep
Goal setting
Relapse Prevention
Available as a face-to-face course and as a webinar.