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Key Takeaways

• CBT techniques: best for targeting a specific negative thought or belief that increases stress.
• CBT Five-Part Model: helps you map the stress cycle by linking physical sensations, behaviours, thoughts and context.
• Mindfulness: helps restore focus when stress disrupts concentration by bringing attention back to the present moment.
• Acceptance-Based Stress Management: suits situations that cannot be changed immediately and where resisting the stress adds strain.
• ACT: supports acting in line with your values despite difficult thoughts and feelings.
• Self-compassion: helps reduce self-criticism, shame or perfectionism that follow mistakes or awkward moments.
• Resilience training: builds recovery strategies, boundaries and perspective to manage accumulating pressure over time.
• Progressive relaxation: targets physical tension and habitual muscle bracing.
• Physical exercise: improves recovery, energy, sleep and reduces carry-over stress between shifts.
• Techniques can complement each other: many learners use a short in-the-moment method alongside a longer-term approach.

Choosing Your Next Full Course

• Choose CBT techniques if you want a structured method to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts.
• Choose the Five-Part Model if you want to map a repeating stress pattern across body, behaviour, thoughts and environment.
• Choose mindfulness if you need brief attention resets between tasks and patients.
• Choose ABS if you are often stressed by situations you cannot change quickly.
• Choose ACT if you want help taking valued actions when stress is present.
• Choose self-compassion if you tend to be hard on yourself after setbacks or awkward moments.
• Choose resilience training if you need practical strategies for recovery, setting boundaries and maintaining wellbeing.
• Choose progressive relaxation if your stress shows mainly as jaw, neck, shoulder or breathing tension.
• Choose physical exercise if you want to develop a habit that improves recovery, mood, sleep and energy.
• Choose more than one if your stress includes immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns that both need addressing.