Course: Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Modern Workplace

In this video, you will hear from Joden from the Mental Health Foundation. He speaks to his own experience of juggling work, study and caring for a family member as …

In this step, we will take a closer look at managing stress through balancing stressors and stress relievers. Stressors are any experience which causes us to feel stress. Stress relievers …

Stress is only helpful and effective in the short term. When stress is excessive or we experience it for a prolonged amount of time, it can be incredibly damaging to …

Before reading on, watch the animation above. Why do we experience stress? Medical theory defines stress as our body’s response to a pressure or an external threat. The stress response …

Stress is a response that we as a species have evolved to enhance our performance, however stress can sometimes have the opposite effect. Too much stress can lead to distress, …

This course has been written in partnership by members of staff at the Mental Health Foundation and Mental Health at Work. The Mental Health Foundation is one of the UK’s …