If you’re feeling overwhelmed by stress, you’re not alone. Stress is a very common issue, often involving anxiety, depression, panic, sleep problems, low wellbeing, and low self-esteem. It’s a normal response to life’s pressures, and most of us will experience it at some point. Stress Control can help you fight back against stress, boost your wellbeing, and regain control of your life.
Please click here to see dates of upcoming online classes running in Ireland and to find out more about Stress Control please click here.
To find out how the class works, click here.
The course provided by the HSE and is free of charge. You do not need to register.
To successfully complete this class, watch each of the six sessions (each session will be available on YouTube for one week), read the booklets, and use the relaxation tracks (which can be found in the ‘Free Zone’ of this website). If you can, please read and start work on the four ‘Preparing for the course’ booklets before the first session. Click the orange button below to access the YouTube page, and remember to subscribe for session notifications.
If you would like to access more in-depth Stress Control materials, you can register for our Enhanced Zone.
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Dr Jim White
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Find out more about Jim
Jim is an internationally recognised expert in stress management. Aware that health-care organisations were seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of those suffering from stress and, therefore, unable to do any significant preventative or early intervention work, he devised Stress Control over thirty years ago as an attempt to improve outcomes for individuals while, at the same time, hugely improving efficiency by offering evidence-based help to many more people than individual approaches would allow.
At the time, this was a highly unusual approach. However following peer-reviewed research and evaluation showing how well this approach worked, the class has become widely available across the world.
Jim has presented at many national and international conferences and events and acted as a National Advisor to the Scottish Government. He is involved with the European Union on how to develop mental health services across Europe using interventions, including Stress Control, he has devised. Jim is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, the lead CBT organisation in the UK and Ireland and had been appointed a Chartered Scientist.
He has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written two influential books on stress management –StressPac, Harcourt Brace, 1997; Treating Anxiety and Stress, Wiley, 2000. He co-edited The Oxford Guide to Low-intensity CBT Interventions, Oxford University Press, 2010, contributing four chapters including one on Stress Control. He reviews books and research articles for a range of publishers and journals.
He worked for over thirty years as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the NHS and was the originator of the highly innovative and successful ‘Glasgow Steps’ approach to common mental health problems – an approach increasingly copied across the world.
Jim now trains organisations to run Stress Control classes and is currently developing new versions of the class, e.g. for schools, young people, Universities and prisons along with wellbeing versions for use by those involved in sport. He has helped partners in India, Silver Oak, to develop an online version of the class.
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