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Online Course IconSW 310 Managing Stress: Principles and Techniques for
Coping, Prevention, and Wellness (3).

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Online course. Covers major stress-management techniques, helping others cope with stress, and promoting wellness. Concepts, theories and models of stress, psychological basis for stress, relationship between personality and stress, family and social stress, job stress, dissatisfaction, and burnout are discussed. Offered only through Continuing Education. Five written assignments; a stress-management project; final examination. View the SW 310 course preview. Instructor: Allan Press.

Tuition and Fees Undergraduate resident students pay: 919.50
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: 1,927.20
Graduate resident students pay: 1,065.30
Graduate nonresident students pay: 2,128.65

Textbooks (separate purchase):

  • Rice. Stress and Health, 3rd ed., Brooks/Cole, 1999.
  • Press and Osterkamp. Stress? Find Your Balance, 4th ed., Preventive Measures, 2006.
  • CD: Finding Your Balance: Deep-muscle Relaxation Exercise and Meditation Exercise, Preventive Measures, 2006.

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