Stress, Self-Care and Mindfulness
UndergraduateTAS-PSY2142023
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Explore current approaches to managing stress and enhancing wellbeing. You’ll investigate the impacts of lifestyle choices, mindfulness, and positive psychology. Touch on psychological theory. Foster healthy behaviours, thoughts, and actions.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Stress, Self-Care and Mindfulness
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain key concepts relating to stress and psychological well-being.
- Evaluate approaches to managing stress and enhancing well-being, referring to theory, evidence base and practice.
- Apply techniques to manage stress and enhance well-being in a self-care context, and critically reflect on your experience.
- Use a variety of media to communicate about self-care concepts that can be applied to manage stress and enhance wellbeing within a self-care context.
- Refer to Mylo for study topics
In this online subject you will learn about a range of contemporary approaches to managing stress and enhancing wellbeing which can be applied by individuals. As a foundation, you will learn about stress, coping, well-being and happiness, considering different models used in psychology to explain these concepts. Then you will explore the theory, evidence base, and practice of a range of approaches used to manage stress and enhance wellbeing within a self-care context. These approaches are grouped into three themes:
1. Lifestyle (healthy eating, physical activity, sleep, leisure and relaxation, social connections, nature, and digital health)
2. Mindfulness (everyday/informal mindfulness, formal mindfulness and meditation, compassion and self-compassion) and
3. Positive psychology (gratitude, acts of kindness, character strengths, meaning, flow and creativity).
Throughout the subject, there is a focus on learning to adopt healthy thoughts and behaviours as part of a self-care approach, and developing skills in applying the scientist-practitioner model to reflect on claims regarding approaches to managing stress and enhancing well-being. In each weekly online module, content is presented via text, mini-lectures, images, videos, and audio recordings, along with interactive online learning activities. Readings focus on research articles and reports which provide an evidence base for the approaches discussed in the subject. There are multiple opportunities to interact with your teacher and peers throughout the semester, in both synchronous and asynchronous modes. In practical activities and assessments, you will discuss, apply, and reflect on the techniques discussed in the unit content.
- Online Quizzes x 4 (20%)
- Workbook (40%)
- Pre-recorded Video Presentation (individual) (35%)
- Online learning engagement activities (5%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-CAH-DIP-2023 - Diploma of Creative Arts and Health
Elective
- TAS-CAH-CTF-2023 - Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health
Equivalent subjects
You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - 3 hour weekly Asynchronous online learning modules 1 hour weekly Asynchronous online Learning Activities 6hrs weekly Independent learning consisting of weekly readings, assignment preparation, revision
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Student feedback
6 student respondents between 21 Oct - 11 Nov 2024.
66%of students felt the study load was manageable
100%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Diploma of Creative Arts and Health
UndergraduateTAS-CAH-DIP
Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Arts and Health
UndergraduateTAS-CAH-CTF