School of Professional and Continuing Studies

ANXIETY AND STRESS MANAGEMENT - PRACTICE

CURRENT ADMISSION

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND AIMS

The course includes a presentation of some stress models and the influence of environmental factors, biological and genetic factors, as well as explanations of anxiety, types of anxiety disorders and techniques and methods for overcoming generalized anxiety and panic crises. The course reviews techniques for dealing with stress and anxiety, their effectiveness and expected results.

COURSE CONTENT:

1	Biological changes in the body as a result of stress - demonstration of the effects of stress
2	Anxiety disorders - symptoms, manifestations, cases
3	Techniques for overcoming situational anxiety - practice
4	Techniques for dealing with the symptoms of social phobia
5	Panic crises - methods to control anxiety
6	Techniques for dealing with chronic stress

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who complete this course:

1) will know:

Biological and psychological stress models and the reaction of the body as a result of stress

2) will be able to:

Participate in a team and work with people experiencing stress and anxiety as well as patients with anxiety disorders

Tutor: Assoc prof. Margarita Stankova, MD, PhD, Evgenia Daskalova

Prof. Margarita Stankova, MD, PhD, graduated from the Medical University, Sofia, specialty Psychiatry and a Master's program in "Communication Infringements" at the NBU and doctoral program "Language and Speech Pathology" at the NBU. She has successfully completed courses and trainings at NTNU, Trondheim, Iavante Foundation, Granada. Since 2013 he has been an Associate Professor of “Public Health” at NBU at the Department of “Health and Social Work”. Since 2014 she has been the director of the Center for Therapy for Communicational and Emotional Behavioural Disorders at NBU. Head of the Department of “Health and Social Work” from 2016
The scientific and practical interests of Assoc. prof. Margarita Stankova are in the field of psychopathology, developmental disorders, communicative disorders, autism spectrum disorders, integration of children with special educational needs, etiological mechanisms and the role of the environment for the occurrence of the violations, programs for therapy, evaluation of the effect of therapeutic interventions
prof. Margarita Stankova is the author of four monographs in the field of developmental disruptions and 62 publications in this field. She has edited seven editions on the topic, participated in 15 scientific and applied projects in the field of work with children with developmental disabilities.

New Bulgarian University

Department of Health Care and Social Work

Tel. 02/ 8110588

E-mai: mstankova@nbu.bg

The courses lasts 12 hours /online/

Tuition fee: 100 Euro.

The course will be held with a group of 7 people.

For more information:

School of Professional and Continuing Education

New Bulgarian University, Building II, Office 208

21 Montevideo, Blvd.

Sofia, 1618, Bulgaria

Tel.: +3592/ 8110 110 (option 6)

E-mail: uppo@nbu.bg

Web: https://cpo.nbu.bg/

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