While her main focus is on trauma, she has written and developed courses on subjects such as resilience-building and stress management, wellbeing in the field, and sexual aggression awareness.
This finding supports the results of Irvin and Acton's [ 19] study of hope, stress and wellbeing in which hope had a positive significant relationship with wellbeing of women who were family caregivers of persons with AD.
These are often subtle but can have long-term impacts on stress and wellbeing.
The Australian Psychological Society's (APS) survey of stress and wellbeing also found 2014 was a tough year for women, with many reporting significantly higher levels of stress in their day-to-day lives.
Other studies have focused more on stress and wellbeing among university staff, including one by the University and College Union (UCU) in 2013, which revealed that university staff are more stressed than the average British worker and that the problem has got worse in recent years.
Figure 5 Workload, stress and wellbeing level of the participants at the end of the shift.
Breathing and sitting up straight are two elements that engineer duo Andre Persidsky and Alex Ahlund believe are key to getting a handle on stress and wellbeing.
There is also potential for medication side effects and negative treatment experiences (e.g. repeated intravenous infusion, frequent injections) to cause pain and stress, undermining wellbeing.
We're also worried about finances; the annual Stress and Wellbeing Report 2015 by the Australian Psychological Society found that finances regularly top our list of concerns.
We shall illustrate findings by anonymised quotations showing how mindfulness training affected respondents' feelings of stress and wellbeing.
