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Psychology Of Stress, Health And Well-Being
Prof. Dilwar Hussain · IIT Guwahati
About
In today’s world, mental distress and disorders are common and accounting for a significant burden of disability within nations. However, at the same time, there has been a growing interest in understanding and enhancing positive mental health and wellbeing particularly in the field of psychology. Overall, this course systematically addresses the issues of health, adjustment and well-being. It reviews the topics of stress and health while adding happiness and well-being theory and research to enrich our understanding of both negative and positive side of human behavior. Overall, this course will attempt to provide insights from the field of psychology to make your life more satisfying and meaningful.
Intended audience: UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering
Lectures
Week 1: The Nature and Biology of Stress
Week 2 : Stress, Trauma and Health
- Lec 4 : Stress, Health, and Non-infectious Diseases
- Lec 5 : Stress and Infectious Diseases
- Lec 6 : Stress and Psychological Disorders
Week 3: Positive Aspects of Stress and Trauma
- Lec 7 : Stress, Trauma and Posttraumatic growth 1
- Lec 8 : Stress, Trauma and Posttraumatic growth 2
- Lec 9 : Factors Influencing Stress Tolerance
Week 4: Coping processes and strategies 1
- Lec 10 : Coping Strategies: Definition and Types
- Lec 11 : Unconscious mind and defensive coping
- Lec 12 : Characteristics of constructive coping; Physical ways of coping
Week 5: Coping processes and strategies 2
- Lec 13 : Coping with relaxation exercises
- Lec 14 : Mental ways of coping
- Lec 15 : Coping with social support
- Lec 16 : Coping with meditation and mindfulness
Week 6: Beyond Stress and Recovery: Well-being and Happiness
Week 7: Psychology of happiness
- Lec 19 : What is happiness? What makes us happy?
- Lec 20 : Socio-demographic factors and happiness
- Lec 21 : Positive emotions
Week 8 : Can we become happier?
- Lec 22 : Genetic set point and hedonic adaptation
- Lec 23 : Sustainable happiness model
- Lec 24 : Sustainable happiness with intentional activities
Week 9: Happiness Activities 1
- Lec 25 : Cultivating happiness with gratitude
- Lec 26 : Cultivating happiness with acts of kindness
- Lec 27 : Social comparison and happiness
Week 10 : Happiness Activities 2
- Lec 28 : Cultivating happiness with signature strengths 1 (VIA character strengths)
- Lec 29 : Cultivating happiness with signature strengths 2 (Gallup's/Clifton strength finder)
- Lec 30 : Cultivating happiness with "Flow"
Week 11: Is happiness sufficient? The concept of eudaimonic well-being
- Lec 31 : Humanistic psychology and self-actualization
- Lec 32 : Self-determination, motivation, and well-being
Week 12: Meaning and purpose in life
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Dilwar Hussain
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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