Stress Management Stress Inoculation Training

Learning Objectives  To outline and evaluate stress inoculation training as a method of stress management  To apply knowledge to create a therapy programme for a designed case study

Stress Management  You need to know… - One psychological therapy – stress inoculation - One biological therapy – use of drugs Be able to describe and evaluate both – could be a 12 mark question!!!

Stress “A mismatch between the perceived demands of a situation and your perceived ability to cope with it”  So a good stress management technique should be able to reduce the perceived demands of a situation and improve coping abilities

Stress Inoculation Training (SIT)  A form of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy  This means it focuses on thought and actions think more rationally - A stressed person often overestimates the demands put on themselves, so the therapy aims to make the client think more rationally improve coping strategies - Also aims to target behaviour – improve coping strategies through practise so they react to stress better

Three Phases  In your small groups/pairs you have been given information on one of the three phases  Make three key points on this phase and use an example to make it clear what happens in this stage

Conceptualisation

Skills Acquisition/Training

Real-life Application

Evaluation of Stress Inoculation Training  Distinguish between strengths and weaknesses and stick these into your booklets