Up to this point, you have examined multiple stress management techniques. For this assignment, you apply stress management techniques to build on your Final Project. Review T.A. Lang’s Developing Patient Education Handouts resource as well as the “Sampling of Stress Management Techniques” handout. Conduct online research for additional examples of patient information brochures. Then consider the population you selected for your Week 3 Final Project assignment. Select three stressors common to this population. Review the Handout Guidelines and the literature you obtained in your search for stress management techniques and patient information brochures. Consider the information you might include on three different handouts that provide stress management techniques you might use for this population.

The Assignment (3 one-page handouts)

• Create a different handout for each of the three stress management techniques you might use for the population you selected in Week 3.
• Apply the Handout Guidelines to the creation of your handouts.

Readings

• Course Text: Baum, A., Trevino, L. A., & Dougall, A. L. (2011). Stress and the cancers. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health (pp. 420–421). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
  • Read the section titled “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
• Course Text: Dougall, A. L., & Swanson, J. N. (2011). Physical health outcomes of trauma. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health (pp. 373–384). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
• Course Text: Gerin, W. (2011). Acute stress responses in the psychophysiological laboratory. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The handbook of stress science: Biology, psychology, and health (pp. 501–513). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
• Article: Hourani, L. L., Council, C. L., Hubal, R. C., & Strange, L. B. (2011). Approaches to the primary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder in the military: A review of the stress control literature. Military Medicine, 176(7), 721–730.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.
• Article: National Center for Biotechnology Information. (2011). Post-traumatic stress disorder. PubMed Health. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001923
• Article: Scott-Tilley, D., Tilton, A., & Sandel, M. (2010). Biologic correlates to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in female victims of intimate partner violence: Implications for practice. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 46(1), 26–36.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the Academic Search Complete database.
• Article: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2007). DSM criteria for PTSD. Retrieved from http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/dsm-iv-tr-ptsd.asp
• Article: Wilson, D. R. (2010). Health consequences of childhood sexual abuse. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 46(1), 56–64.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the Academic Search Complete database.
• Article: Wilson, D. R. (2007). Memory repression in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Community and Health Sciences, 2(2), 72–83.
  Memory Repression in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, by Dr. Debra Rose Wilson, in Journal of Community and Health Sciences, Vol. 2/Issue 2. Copyright 2007 by Journal of Community and Health Sciences & Debra Wilson. Reprinted by permission of Journal of Community and Health Sciences & Debra Wilson.
• Handout: Laureate Education, Inc. (2012). Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Unpublished document.
• Handout: Laureate Education, Inc. (2012). Sampling of stress management techniques. Unpublished document.
• Handout: Week 5 Final Project Assignment: Handout Guidelines
• Workshop Materials: Lang, T. A. (1999). Developing patient education handouts. Davis, CA: Tom Lang Communications.
  Lang, T. (1999). Writing Patient Education Materials. Copyright 1999 by Thomas A. Lang, Principal, Tom Lang Communications and Training International.
• Web Resource: American Psychological Association. (2012). Post-traumatic stress disorder. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics/ptsd/index.aspx
• Web Resource: National Institute of Mental Health. (2012). Health topics: Post-traumatic stress disorder. Retrieved from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml