Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📕 UNIT 1: Stress Management Advisor Introduction

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: What’s Your Goal?

Please Complete Your Personal Strategy Questionnaire

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module feedback

Module Quiz

0. Advisory Fundamentals

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How easy is it to spot stress in other people?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Stressed Do You Think You Are?

POLL: Is psychological stress always harmful?

📕 UNIT 2: What Does “Stress” Actually Mean?

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

Before you take your quiz

1. The Truth About Stress

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Reflect on your usual level of anxiety

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Anxious Are You?

📕 UNIT 2: Anxiety and Stress: Same or Different?

2. The Uncertainty of Anxiety

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: What Has Changed in Your Life Recently?

POLL: Are all life events stressful? 

📕 UNIT 2: Understanding The Changes in Life

📕 UNIT 3: When is a Stimulus Really a Stressor?

3. In The Face of Difficulty: Challenges vs Stressors

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How does the body decide something is a threat?

📕 UNIT 1: Understanding The Science Behind Stress

POLL: Is cortisol the whole stress story?

📕 UNIT 2: HPA, SAM, and the GBA: Our Friends or Enemies?

POLL: How we respond in times of stress is due to our:

📕 UNIT 3: Can We Blame Our Genes for Feeling Stressed?

4. S.O.S. = Science Of Stress

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What experiences are most often linked with PTSD?

📕 UNIT 1: Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

📕 UNIT 2: Linking PTSD with The Stress Response

POLL: Can supportive techniques help with PTSD symptoms?

5. Unlinking Fear From Trauma

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Is there only one right way to cope with stress?

📕 UNIT 1: How We View Stress: Does It Matter?

POLL: How well do you know your own stress patterns?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: How Do You Deal with Difficult Circumstances?

POLL: What counts as substance-based coping?

📕 UNIT 3: Coping Mechanisms for Tough Times

POLL: Reflect on whether your coping habits truly serve you

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: What Are You Avoiding?

POLL: How often do you distract yourself from stress?

📕 UNIT 5: Building Stress Resilience

6. Appraisal, Coping, and Resilience

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What is the overall tone of your thinking?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are You a Positive Thinker?

POLL: What is your experience with positive affirmations?

📕 UNIT 2: Can affirmations Reduce The ANTs in Your House?

POLL: Share which core values matter most to you

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Can You Replace The ANTs in Your House With PATs?

7. Are There ANTs in Your House?

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How much do you tend to dwell on difficult experiences?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is Overthinking Causing You Distress?

POLL: How often do your thoughts keep you awake at night?

📕 UNIT 2: What’s So Bad About Thinking?

POLL: Can rumination keep the stress response going?

📕 UNIT 3: The Consequences of Overthinking

POLL: What can clients realistically learn to change?

📕 UNIT 4: Is It Possible to Limit Rumination?

POLL: How open are you to finding growth in difficult experiences?

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: Monitoring Your Non-Productive Thinking

8. Reflection or Rumination?

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you see personality as fixed or changeable?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Do You Have a ‘Fixed’ or a ‘Growth’ Mindset?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Power of Believing That You Can Improve

POLL: Can our beliefs about stress make stress worse?

📕 UNIT 2: How Can a Mindset Impact Stress Levels?

LEARNING ACTIVITY: Stress Mindset Manipulation

Downloadable Client Material and Session Handout

9. Optimising a Mindset

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How tuned in are you to your emotions?

📕 UNIT 1: Emotions and Feelings: Burden, Blessing or Both?

POLL: How well can you read a client’s emotional cues?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: How Would You Rate Your Emotional Literacy?

POLL: Reflect on your comfort with naming your feelings

📕 UNIT 3: The Science of Emotional Regulation

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?

POLL: How would you rate your emotional intelligence?

📕 UNIT 5: Why Does Emotional Intelligence Matter?

📘 UNIT 6: Skills Lab™: How Can You Improve Your Emotional Intelligence?

10. Strengthening Emotional Regulation and Intelligence

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are your feelings usually more positive or negative?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is Your Positivity/Negativity Ratio Imbalanced?

POLL: Can we train attention toward the positive?

📕 UNIT 2: Creating a Bias Towards Positivity

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN:The New Era of Positive Psychology

11. What Good Are Positive Emotions?

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share how kind are you toward yourself

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Affectionate Are You Towards Yourself?

📕 UNIT 2: Is There a Scientific Side to Compassion?

POLL: Share how optimistic do you feel

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: How Optimistic Are You?

📕 UNIT 4: Optimism: Decreasing Anxiety or Increasing Irrationality?

POLL: Share how hopeful you feel

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™: Do You Hope for The Best?

📕 UNIT 6: Is It Possible to Wish Your Tension Away?

POLL: Share how present is gratitude in your daily life

📘 UNIT 7: Skills Lab™: How Thankful Are You?

📕 UNIT 8: The Power of Gratitude

12. The Power of 4

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How would you describe your relationship with your work?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are You Burning Out?

📕 UNIT 2: Who Is At Risk for Work Burnout?

POLL: Can you switch off from work after hours?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: How Attached Are You To Work?

📕 UNIT 4: Is Work Making You Ill?

POLL: What creates the most pressure for you at work?

📕 UNIT 5: Cultivating a Healthy, Productive Organisation

13. Consequences of Work Burnout

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Where does your anger usually come from?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Angry Are You?

POLL: How prepared are you to handle anger well?

📕 UNIT 2: Managing Anger Before It Becomes Toxic

POLL: How aware are people of their own anger?

📕 UNIT 3: Can Mental Anger Put Our Physical Health at Risk?

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: What Triggers Your Anger?

POLL: How do you view sarcasm in communication?

📕 UNIT 5: Turning Workplace Anger Into Performance

14. Managing Toxic Anger

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What role might stress play in conception?

📕 UNIT 1: Is it possible to be too tense to conceive?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: How Are You Handling Your Pregnancy?

📕 UNIT 3:  Anxiety During Pregnancy: Impact On The Child

POLL: Is parental stress simply part of the role?

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: Is Parenting Stressing You Out?

POLL: Can children absorb stress from their parents?

📕 UNIT 5: Children of Anxious Parents

15. Stress on Fertility and Parenting

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What kind of movement do you enjoy most?

📕 UNIT 1: Keeping Calm Through Movement

POLL: What effect does exercise usually have on your mind?

📕 UNIT 2: How Does The Body React to Being Active?

16. Buffering Stress With Fitness

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How would you describe your usual sleep quality?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Poorly Do You Sleep?

📕 UNIT 2: Breaking The Stress-Sleep Cycle

📕 UNIT 3: The Consequences of Going Against Your Circadian Rhythms

POLL: Share whether you are more of a lark, an owl, or somewhere in between

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What Is Your Perfect Sleep Environment?

17. Sleep Troubles

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How does stress tend to change the way you eat?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are You an Emotional Eater?

POLL: Which setting brings out your healthier eating habits?

📕 UNIT 2: The Psychology of Emotional Eating

POLL: Check in with your intake of staple foods

📕 UNIT 3: Making “Happy Molecules” Through Diet

18. Emotional Eating Science

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often does eating leave you with stomach discomfort?

📕 UNIT 1: Making Friends With Your Gut

POLL: What is your usual eating pace?

📕 UNIT 2: The Hunger-Stress-Gut Connection

19. Stressed Guts = Hungry Guts?

Module 20 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Is all fat unhealthy?

📕 UNIT 1: Blood Sugar Balance and Essential Fatty Acids

POLL: How much variety is there in your fruit and vegetable intake?

📕 UNIT 2: Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs for Stress Resilience

20. S.O.S Nutritional Toolbox

Module 21 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What kinds of situations tend to trigger stress for you?

📕 UNIT 1: What Are The Major Types of Stress?

📕 UNIT 2:  Are You Suffering From “Too Much To Do, Too Little Time”?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Traditional Marshmallow Experiment

POLL: Do you feel that when you are stressed, time seems to "change"?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: How Can You Make The Most of Your Time?

21. The Burden of Time

Module 22 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How present have you been over the last 24 hours?

📕 UNIT 1: Does Being Startled Make You Alert, or Put You on Edge?

POLL: Where does your mind go when you picture calm?

📕 UNIT 2: Do You Worry About The Future?

22. Alert to The Now…or Worrying About Tomorrow?

Module 23 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Take a guess at the prevalence of social anxiety

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Well Do You Cope in Social Settings?

📕 UNIT 2: What If Interacting With People Causes Stress?

📕 UNIT 3: Social Skills to Reduce Unease

23. Anxious about Interaction

<p>This 84-unit certification will help you to recognise the benefits of stress (eustress) compared to when it may lower productivity and cognitive functioning (distress). You’ll be getting an in-depth look at the physiological changes which occur within the body when we are feeling overwhelmed or anxious, and learn why it’s important to be able to recognise certain detrimental signs. Plus, we’ll be covering several ways to help a client when they feel they are lagging behind and unable to cope as well as methods to help build stress resilience. </p>

The science-based certification to building stress resilience in order to help a client during times of adversity or challenge

Advanced Stress Management Advisor™

Advanced Stress Management Advisor™

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Recognise the impact of internal triggers, thoughts and emotions, which can lead to feeling overwhelmed, anxious, fearful, worried, or angry elevating risk for stress.

Evaluate factors which may be increasing stress including family, work, relationships, trauma, rumination, negative thinking, and other lifestyle behaviours.

Perform health risk assessments to evaluate levels of perceived stress, anxiety levels, potential stressors, thought patterns, emotional regulation, work burnout, parental strain, and more.

Gain advanced knowledge on the link between stress and mood disorders, including social anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and toxic anger.

Learn how mindset can influence our interpretation of events, and how this changes our perceived level of stress or overwhelm.

Understand that our genetic make-up may play a role in our reaction to trying circumstances, but our environment and internal reactions have a larger influence.

Assess what current coping strategies your client uses to deal with stress; these may be positive such as exercise or negative such as overeating.

Build a personalised stress management program, considering an individual´s main external stress causes and internal triggers.

Help your client create a personalised go-to list of techniques to build their stress resilience based on nutrition, exercise, sleep, thought patterns, emotional intelligence, mindset, and so on.

Track your client´s stress progress over time, including levels of perceived stress, anxiety, growth mindset, positive affect, exercise, and sleep.

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