The Wellbeing Workout: How to Manage Stress and Develop Resilience

ISBN-13: 9783319925516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 367 str.

Rick Hughes; Andrew Kinder; Cary L. Cooper

Recenzje

"A very easy-to-read handbook that I think almost all people will find of interest. ... It is a really easy-to-read practical guide for individuals. I think everyone could take something from it and maybe improve their own personal situation. ... this is worth a read." (Nerys Williams, Occupational Medicine, Vol. 70 (2), March, 2020)
"The accessible style allows the reader to draw upon sensible coaching advice for whichever circumstances they may find themselves in, and the reader is empowered to take charge immediately. ... its appeal became clear - not only for clients, but also for practitioners in their own personal journey toward greater resilience and wellbeing." (Lindsay Crago, University & College Counselling, May, 2019)

Spis treści

Section A – Stress Management

                                         
1. Managing Workload Pressure

2. Choice and Control 

3. Task Prioritisation

4. Constructive Criticism and Managing Rejection

5. Maximising Personal Efficiency

6. Dealing with Difficult People

7. Managing conflict at home and work

8. Redundancy and retirement

9. Work satisfaction

10. Effective Delegation

11. To Know or Not to Know

12. How to Get on in Your Career

13. Confident Public Speaking

14. The Myths of Perfectionism

15. Managing Change in Organisations

16. Working with Global Uncertainty

17. Personal Stress Management Toolkit

18. Organisational savviness

19. Networking and Your Dream Team

20. Spotting signs of stress in others

Section B – Personal & Family Life Management
21. Relationship MOT

22. When Relationships End

23. Anxiety Management

24. Living with Depression

25. Changing negative thinking patterns

26. Supporting Elderly Dependents

27. Bereavement and loss

28. Stages in life

29. Help: Asking for It and Finding It

30. Being Childless or Child-Free

31. Pregnancy and birth

32. Parenting Pre-teens

33. Parenting Teenagers

34. When Children Leave Home

35. Embracing a Mid-life Crisis.

36. Addictions

37. Being single

38. Personal Wellness Toolkit

39. Pain Management

40. Coping with illness
 
Section C - Personal Resilience
41. Personal fulfilment, satisfaction and purpose

42. Work-life balance

43. Personal and professional  development

44. Acceptance strategies

45. Emotional Intelligence

46. Assertiveness

47. Constructive Anger

48. Developing self-confidence

49. Setting Meaningful Goals

50. Mindfulness

51. Life Cycle Events: Losses and Gains

52. Rest and Relaxation

53. Looking After Yourself and Self-Care

54. Problem-Focused Resilience

55. Solution-focused Resilience

56. Change-focused Resilience

57. Managing a Crisis

58. Avoiding Burnout

59. How to Tolerate Ambiguity

60. Procrastination.

O autorze

Rick Hughes is Head of Service at the University of Aberdeen's Counselling Service.

Andrew Kinder is Professional Head of Mental Health Services at Optima Health.

Sir Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at the ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is President of the CIPD, President of RELATE and President of the British Academy of Management.

Blurb

If you want to get physically fit you start working out. But if you want results, you can’t just do just any workout – you need one tailored to your own body’s needs and personal situation. It’s the same with wellbeing.

What constitutes ‘stress’ to one person may be motivating, inspiring and focusing for another. Our capacity for resilience varies depending on individual circumstances and from situation to situation. What is consistent and universal is that we all struggle with stress and resilience, and we all need to be open to figuring out how best to effectively manage stress to create greater personal resilience that will itself help us to cope better.

This book offers you an encyclopaedia of self-help options for you to adapt according to how you tick and to the circumstances you find yourself in at any given moment.

It addresses 60 different issues, and for each one provides a short ‘Spotlight’ to understand the issue, ‘Top Tips’ for dealing with it, and an ‘Action Plan’ to put those tips into practice.

Wellbeing is about managing the ebbs and flows of what life throws at us. It’s a mindset, a personal commitment and an ongoing endeavour. But if we adopt a focused and sustained engagement with this journey, then we’ll learn to embrace and reap the benefits of ‘being well’.