Stress Management - Basic Information About How To Manage Stress

Introduction

The aim of this web page is to provide staff, Managers and Supervisors with some basic stress management skills that will assist them address stress issues that they may encounter personally, in their colleagues or subordinate staff. 

After perusing this site the reader should have a clearer understanding of occupational stress, work and non-work causes, implications for the work environment, knowledge of a range of helping strategies and guidelines for the referral of complex situations to specialists.

The schematic diagram (above) contains a number of terms or concepts that may not be familiar. They are explained below: 

• Job stressors
• Non-work factors
• Buffers
• Acute reactions
• Organisational impact

Once you are familiar with the job stress model and its components you may wish to use the links below:

• Work v non-work stress
• Stress types
• University of Adelaide programs
• Management options