Managing Stress & Worry During the Pandemic - Streaming Video only *NO CE - 6 Hours

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Part 1

• Survival Behavior. Cognitive Appraisals. The Power of Core Beliefs.

• Understanding Emotions, Moods, and Affect: Do We Have a Cluster of Core Beliefs that Create a General Mood?

• The Stress Response: Sympathetic Vs. Parasympathetic. Type 1 Emotional Thinking vs. Type 2 Rational Thinking.

• Stress, Fear, and Anger. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Curse of Imaginary Stress about an Uncertain Future.

• The “Goldilocks” Effect and Hormesis. How to Focus on What You Can Control.

• Chronic Stress and Health: Chronic Illnesses, Mental Disorders, and Premature Death.

• How the Stress of Chronic Anger Destroys Health. The Upholsterer, Heart Disease, and “Type A” Personality.

• What Are People Stressed Out About? The 2019 and 2020 Stress in America Surveys.

• The Continuous Traumatic Stress of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Chronic Societal Disruption with Conflicting Core Beliefs, Multiple Stressors, and Historic (High) Levels of Stress and Unhappiness.

• Post Intensive Care Syndrome: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Problems in COVID-19 ICU Survivors and Their Families after Discharge. Ventilator Delirium.

• COVID-19 “Long Haulers.” Unpredictable Long-Term Symptoms in Some COVID-19 Survivors.

• Challenges of COVID-19: Physical, Mental, and Dental Disorders. Decision Fatigue in Patients and Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Providers

Part 2

• Anxiety Disorders: Stress Out of Control. Nine Major Anxiety Disorders.

• How Resilient Are We in Times of Stress? Adverse Child Experiences. The Kauai Longitudinal Study. Survivors of the Holocaust. Sully and the “Miracle on the Hudson.”

• Is Resilience Declining in Recent Years? The “Victimhood” Culture, Helicopter and Bulldozer Parenting, and Being the “Just Good Enough” Parent.

• The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Resilience. Are We More or Less Resilient Now?

• Prevention of Chronic Stress and Anxiety: Becoming a COVID-19 Pandemic Survivor by Building Resilience and Optimism.

• Evidence-Based Treatments for COVID-19 Stress and Anxiety: Tele-Therapy, Medications, Diet, Exercise, Playing Outside, and Integrative Approaches.

• COVID-19 and Delayed Dental Care: Consequences of Misguided Anxiety.

• Five-Minute COVID-19 Stress Resets: Mammalian “Cold Water” Diving Reflex, Paced Abdominal Breathing, and Music.

• Meditation, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and Relaxation Response. The 8-Week Course in MBSR. Cognitive Vs. Body Therapies for Stress. Military Mindfulness Training.

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies. Distorted Cognitive Appraisals and Cognitive Reappraisals. The Combined Approach of Stop, Breathe, Reflect, and Choose.

• Special Trauma Therapies. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Cognitive Processing Therapy. Prolonged and Narrative Exposure Therapies. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy.

Learning Objectives

1. describe how survival behavior is produced by the brain.
2. identify the characteristics of cognitive appraisals, core beliefs, emotions, and moods.
3. discuss the positive and negative effects and impacts of acute and chronic stress, and the major causes and pathways of the stress response.
4. describe the physical, mental, and emotional consequences of COVID-19 for patients, their families, and healthcare providers.
5. discuss methods of preventing chronic stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic by building resilience and optimism.
6. discuss effective stress management strategies, including mindfulness, relaxation body therapies, cognitive-behavioral therapy, medications, diet, and exercise.
7. describe how the information in this course can be utilized across the disciplines to improve patient care outcomes.