The Center for Development and Continuing Education at the University of Basra organized a lecture on the professional pressures of university teachers
The aim of the workshop, which is part of the Teaching Methods course, is to familiarize the beneficiaries with ways to manage psychological stress and train them as much as possible on some of them to benefit from them in their daily social and professional life.
The workshop, which was presented by Dr. Khawla Hassan Hammoud, included identifying psychological stress and its effects on physical and psychological health, forms of psychological stress, external and internal sources of stress and signs of poor stress management, physical and psychological symptoms that can be caused by psychological stress, the role of thinking in provoking psychological stress, presentation of thinking models. The nourisher for psychological stress, how to deal and methods of managing psychological stress, in addition to practical exercises carried out by the beneficiaries on the same subject
In the end, the recommendation was the need to pay attention to training people to manage psychological stress to control it and facilitate things in general to keep pace with the requirements of social and professional life