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  • Level 5
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $890 NZ Domestic
    $3,670 NZ International
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This course is a first-year introductory course for people interested in a career within the health or social services industries as a primary care worker. It introduces learners to stress: its relationship to health and illness, and how it can be managed.

Topics covered include

  • the concept of stress and its relationship to health and disease
  • the biological, psychosocial and environmental elicitors of the stress response
  • adaptive and maladaptive coping responses; and
  • appropriate stress management and coping strategies.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.

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