Stress Advisers

A Stress Adviser is a person who has been trained by Stress Education Services to provide one-to-one advice for stressed individuals over anumber of sessions.

Stress Advice is quite distinct from counselling, and involves giving sound stress management advice to patients/clients in a one-to-one, supportive and enabling context.

The stress management advice used is based on cognitive behavioural techniques which have consistently been shown to be effective in dealing with stress. Since our Stress Adviser courses became fully available in 1999, hundreds of health and welfare staff throughout the UK have already successfully completed the course.

The Stress Adviser course is accredited by the Royal College of Nursing, and also accredited by the Glasgow Caledonian University.

Currently, trained Stress Advisers are working in schools, universities, industry, health centres, doctor's surgeries, major utilities, the armed forces, the police service, local councils, and hospitals.

Those passing the course can become members of the International Stress Management Asociation and can use MISMA or AISMA after their name , subject to application and references

The original research project which developed the concept of the Stress Adviser was conducted by the founders of Stress Education Services, Alice Muir and Ken Hambly, in conjunction with the Anxiety and Stress Research Centre at Stirling University, and funded by central government.

 So…….WHO COULD TRAIN TO BECOME A STRESS ADVISER?

• Stress Adviser Training can be undertaken by anyone with at least 6 months experience working with the public in a supportive context, though you may need to take one of our other courses first.
  
• For full details see our range of Courses in Stress Advice

THE RESEARCH which developed the Stress Adviser Concept

The main research study began in 1996 and treated 140 patients from four medical practices.

The results showed that specially trained nurses - Stress Advisers - had been effective in making statistically significant reductions in both their patients' symptoms of stress, and also, consultation rates with their GP.

The success of the research study created a demand for Stress Adviser Training for nurses and in 1998, Alice Muir and Ken Hambly set up a training partnership to deliver a 30-hour course, initially for British National Health nurses working in general medical practice, but now open to all health and welfare professionals.

Since then Stress Education Services has developed sophisticated distance learning courses in other areas of professional and personal development, including courses for the general public.

Home | About Us  | Courses  | Stress Advisers  | Consultation Skills  |

 Confidence Building  |  FAQs  | Contact Us

To Contact Us :

 Phone / Fax : 01563 558833

E-mail : stresscourses@lineone.net