Managing Anxiety Training

Overview

With over 12.8 million working days lost each year in the UK due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety, employers should provide their staff with an understanding of how to identify and cope with anxiety to ensure the positive wellbeing of their staff.

For every £1 an organisation invests in the mental wellbeing of its employees, they can expect to see an average return of £4.20. This online training course helps the user to understand how to recognise and approach anxious thoughts.

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn:

What is meant by the term ‘Anxiety’, and how this mental condition can manifest for different people.
The details of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), including some simple techniques you can use yourself or pass on to others.
How to identify anxious thoughts and some techniques for dealing with them.

Course Contents

This course consists of two sections:

Section 1: introduction to anxiety

Anxiety can be defined as a feeling of fear and unease due to perceived danger, but when these feelings are misplaced or out of control can contribute to diagnosable Anxiety disorders that may include a range of other symptoms, and which often affect sufferers differently. This section introduces disordered Anxiety and the core concepts of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which is a common early treatment method.

Section 2: ideas and techniques

The second section of this course goes into more detail about techniques and treatments to alleviate symptoms of Anxiety, some of which are based in psychology, while others use mindfulness and meditation.

About the Course

The Managing Anxiety Training course is designed to raise awareness of how Anxiety disorders differ from feelings of anxiety about specific present dangers. It explains that, despite at least a quarter of the population suffering from some form of mood disorder, Anxiety disorders can manifest differently in different people, and therefore have very different symptoms.

The latter part of this course offers practical techniques for managing Anxiety symptoms and episodes. It introduces the practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which is a way of managing thoughts and feelings by changing routine behaviours, and techniques that can be used to reduce stress and Anxiety in the workplace.

Available in 31 languages, the course takes around 25 minutes to complete.