INFORMATION ABOUT THE CENTRES
The Centre for Stress Management specialises in a multidisciplinary approach to stress and anxiety management. The Centre is a corporate member of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education and the Centre is recognised by the Institute as a Centre of Expertise. The Centre is affiliated to the Institute for Complementary Medicine and the British Council of Complementary Medicine. The Director of the Centre is Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, a Chartered Psychologist and health educator. He is an international stress expert, and a Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning & Stress Management at the National Centre for Work Based Learning Partnerships, Middlesex University. The Clinical director is Peter Ruddell, a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist.
TRAINING STAFF
The following consultants are involved in running training courses either at the Centre or externally at other establishments: Liz Doggart, Nick Edgerton, Gladeana McMahon, Pat Milner, Michael Neenan, Stephen Palmer, Peter Ruddell, Jennifer Liston-Smith, Lynda Strickland, and Kasia Szymanska.
STRESS COUNSELLING AND THERAPY
Whoever you are, whatever your age, whatever the situation or problem which you are facing; whether you are stressed, worried, depressed, confused, feeling bad about yourself, wanting to make some changes in your life or coping with unwanted change or crisis, it can help to talk things over, in confidence, with an understanding 'outsider'. Good, objective listening is the basis of all counselling. In addition, our counsellors provide stress therapy which includes management of anxiety and related problems. Relaxation is just one of the many stress management techniques that we teach our clients. Our consulting rooms are located in Blackheath, London. For more details, please contact our Clinical Director, Peter Ruddell.
STRESS MANAGEMENT WORKSHOPS
Course participants are guided through their own stress systems with the aid of their own stress management manual. The aim of the one or two day workshops is to aid each participant in producing their own stress management programme. This method also works well for in-house training. Limited numbers only on workshops.
INDIVIDUAL TRAINING OR COACHING PROGRAMMES
The Centre offers coaching based on the cognitive-behavioural approach. Also the Centre specialises in running training programmes for the individual trainee on the following topics:
STRESS MANAGEMENT, STRESS AUDITS AND EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE CONSULTANCY
This service is available to organisations wishing to reduce or prevent
occupational stress. As part of an integrated three tier approach, we
offer a Stress Auditing/Risk Assessment service (alongside training and
employee assistance support). As part of the stress audit assessment, we can
draw upon a range of instruments, including the Job Stress Survey
developed by Professor Charles Spielberger and the General Health
Questionnaire as a measure of employee mental health. We can also develop
tailored or completely bespoke questionnaires, depending upon the purpose of
the audit and outcomes required.
CERTIFICATED STRESS MANAGEMENT COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING IN LONDON, EDINBURGH, OVERSEAS OR IN-HOUSE
We run regular short and longer courses to aid health and personnel professionals to run their own stress management workshops or to train in counselling or psychotherapy. These certificated courses are run at our centre in London, England or in Edinburgh, Scotland. We are prepared to run our programmes overseas and have held our stress management, multimodal, cognitive-behavioural or rational emotive behavioural therapy programmes in Beijing, China, Tokyo, Japan, and Wellington, New Zealand.
ITEMS FOR SALE
We stock the self-help book, Conquer Your Stress, written by Professors Cooper and Palmer, which is available by mail-order. We can sell our enrolled students or organisations we have contracts with, a range of products including relaxation/hypnosis tapes, videos, biofeedback machines, biodots, daily logs, and personal stress management programme manuals. We are suppliers to the Prison Service, Education, Health and Social Services departments and other recognised bodies.
