MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION - Health Promotion Agency

Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland
CATEGORY 1
Project name
Contact name
Address
Managing Pressure – Eliminating Stress
Sandra Gordon, Health Promotion Co-ordinator
Musgrave Park Hospital
Stockman’s Lane
Belfast
BT9 7JB
Telephone number 01232 669501 Ext 2712
Brief description of project
Objectives
This is a course designed by the Trust to help management and staff
improve their understanding of stress in the workplace. It suggests
ways of recognising when pressure is beginning to impact on work
performance and how to manage this.
The course objectives include:
• How to recognise stress in yourself and others.
• Assessing personal stressors.
• Developing coping strategies.
• Relaxation techniques.
Outcomes: Planned The course has benefited participants in identifying personal stressors
and stress-related behaviour in others. Exploring a variety of
relaxation techniques and alternative therapies have also been
identified as a positive result from the course.
Evaluation
Report available.
Project name
Contact name
Address
Managing a Healthy Lifestyle
Sandra Gordon, Health Promotion Co-ordinator
Musgrave Park Hospital
Stockman’s Lane
Belfast
BT9 7JB
Telephone number 01232 669501 ext 2712
Brief description of project
Objectives
This is a course designed for Healthcare and PAM (professions allied
to medicine) Assistants. A large section of the course looks at stress as
an individual issue but other related areas – smoking, alcohol
consumption and exercise/physical activity are also addressed.
For the issue of stress the course objectives include:
• Recognising how stress effects our body – long and short term.
• Recognising how work performance can be affected by stress.
• Identifying ways to reduce stress.
• Autogenic relaxation – participation in a relaxation technique.
Outcomes: Planned Participants have expressed increased knowledge and enjoyment of
relaxation session through end of course evaluation returns.
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