strategy
Relieving stress in human beings
Synonyms:
Easing stress in human beingsAlleviating negative stress
Negating stress
Neutralizing stress
Context:
There is increasing concern that stress contributes to health problems, absences from work, and reduced motivation in a large variety of occupations.
Doctors say 43 percent of adults suffer some health problems from stress.
Implementation:
The UNHCR in 1992 identified a series of measures to enable people to cope with stress. They included: making positive statements to oneself; redefining a distressing task, usually be removing the emotional element; reducing the stress by narrowing the focus; rationalizing the event, or reactions to it; addressing stress symptoms; reframing the stress symptoms; talking oneself into a helpful response; recognizing alternative ways of coping with the stress; self-acceptance of outside pressures that may limit performance.
Claim:
Well-managed stress can be a good thing. It can motivate and excite us.
Narrower:
Controlling anxietyReducing work stressRelieving mental stressRelieving family stressManaging student stressRelieving marital stressRelieving juvenile stressRelieving traumatic stressRelieving musicians' stressRelieving perfection anxietyRelieving socioeconomic stressRelieving stress among childrenRelieving human distress arising from ecological stress Constrained by:
Extending working hours Facilitates:
Preventing suicidesOvercoming drug habit Facilitated by:
ForgivingRelieving strainConsuming alcoholPreventing fatigue Values:
StressRightsInhumanityNegativity Organizations:
International Labour Organization International Stress Management Association Natural Law Party References:
Bernard, Jessie: Social Problems at Midcentury: role, status and stress in a context of abundance Subjects:
Mankind → HumanPsychology → Stress
Type Classification:
B: Basic universal strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
