Corporate Stress Solutions: Stress Navigator Workshop: The Research

The Stress Navigator Workshop is an interactive, scientifically developed expert system based on the Biobehavioral Model of Stress, which focuses on perception and behavior in solving life problems that lead to stress. The fact that the Workshop is based on a scientific model means that it can be, and has been, independently evaluated. That means you can trust your results.
The Biobehavioral Model of Stress consists of four phases or steps: awareness, preparation, action, and persistence.

1. Awareness The Personal Stress Navigator takes a comprehensive look at your pattern of life stress. It takes about 30-45 minutes to complete the various sections of the 264-item questionnaire. In the process, you’ll answer questions about your:
   • Susceptibility to Stress: Reflects how well you take care of yourself and what personal, financial, social and spiritual resources you have to draw upon for help in coping with stress.
   • Elements of Stress: A set of stress factors mathematically derived from your responses that cut across all areas of your life.
   • Sources of Stress: Identifies the situations that place demands and pressures on you.
   • Symptoms of Stress: Explains the ways stress affects your personal life.
2. Preparation Once you have completed the Personal Stress Navigator, you immediately receive your Interpretive Report generated by our expert system.
   
   The Report consists of several sections detailing the pattern of stress in your life, but it is much more than a highly articulated profile of the your stress difficulties. It also provides prescriptive information as to what you can do to reduce your susceptibility to stress, deal with your sources of stress more effectively, and reduce the discomfort and severity of your stress symptoms. The Interpretive Report places the full clinical experience of Drs. Miller and Smith in the hands of the individual. While everyone’s experience with stress is different, your results are based on years of scientific research and clinical experience. Responses from thousands of completed Stress Navigators and knowledge accumulated from over a half century of stress-related studies substantiate the accuracy of your Report.
   
   You can use this Interpretive Report on your own, or you can use it to intelligently partner with your health professionals, EAP counselor, work colleagues, or family and friends.
3. Action plan Just reading about your stress profile isn’t enough. What can you do about changing your stress pattern for the better?
   
   Based upon the Interpretive Report, the Stress Navigator Workshop leads you through the development of specific stress action plans that will reduce susceptibility to stress, reduce the demands and pressures creating the stress at their sources, and provide self-regulation tools for the reduction of physical and mental distress.
   
   Stress action plans are rooted in cognitive behavioral psychology, which focuses on elimination of maladaptive and inefficient behaviors.
   
   A good stress action plan will have the following characteristics.
   • It will make your life better.
   • It can be carried out in six to twelve weeks.
   • It has a specific outcome.
   • It can be stated in behavioral terms.
   • It’s leveraged so you get the most "bang for your buck."
4. Persistence To maintain your momentum and progress, your Report is filled with helpful examples and hot-linked to more than 150 tools and resources, including books and other web sites, that will be valuable as you encounter the inevitable obstacles that come with any attempt to change.
   
   In addition, we provide an appendix of information with tables that give you a snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and how to measure your progress. We show:
   • your sources of stress in order of magnitude
   • symptoms by degree of distress
   • summary scales reflecting the total for your stress susceptibilities, sources and symptoms
   • your stress rankings for the past six months
     total stress you anticipate during the next six months

There’s a lot of information in the tables of data given in the Interpretive Report appendix, almost as much as in your written Report. The tables are color-coded to indicate the degree to which different types of stress affect you.

• Red signals a severe problem that, if ignored, could result in substantial risk for you.
• Amber indicates a potential problem if it is not addressed promptly.
• Green signifies that you have this condition under control.

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