Dealing With Stress – Hardiness Training

  • Focusing – taught to identify signs and sources of stress
  • Reliving and reconstructing – relive stressful encounters and helped to analyse these situations enabling to gain an understanding of stressors and coping strategies
  • Self-improvement – allow them to move forward and develop a new technique, focus on seeing stressors as challenges to take control off.

evaluation

  • Taught to use coping methods for all stressors in their lives not just a particular set related to a particular problem.
  • More adaptable and effective compared to drugs
  • Skill acquisition leads to longer-term effectiveness