Helping newcomers manage stress and anxiety

Target audience: Institutional immigration professionals, healthcare professionals, school staff, community service providers, newcomers.

Learner needs:

• Recognize what stress is

• Understand the causes of stress

• Know the manifestations of stress

• Understand the effects of stress

• Understand anxiety

• Knowing the different forms of anxiety

• Understanding the causes of anxiety

• Understanding the effects of anxiety

• Knowing the tools to manage stress and anxiety

Training and program goals:

• To make new arrivals aware of the importance of managing stress and anxiety.

• Equip caregivers to support newcomers effectively in managing stress and anxiety

Duration: 2 hours

Number of modules: 4 modules

This online resource is designed to meet the need to:

• understand the stress and anxiety issues faced by newcomers ;

• develop stress and anxiety management skills;

• deepen the skills needed to welcome newcomers effectively;

• know the strategies and tools to support and accompany new arrivals.

Topics and themes

• Stress

• Post-traumatic stress

• General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

• Anxiety

• Performance anxiety

• Differences between stress and anxiety

• Manifestation of stress and anxiety

• Sources of stress

• Stress management strategies

• Self-care tools

Brief description of the training:

This training meets the needs of those who interact with newcomers and wish to facilitate their settlement and integration into Canadian society, and the needs of the newcomers themselves. Faced with the mental health issues that arise in the settlement and integration process of newcomers, practitioners can sometimes feel powerless due to the complexity of each case. For their part, newcomers can sometimes feel overwhelmed by the stress and anxiety they experience. This resource addresses relevant aspects of stress and anxiety issues, their causes and manifestations, strategies to help manage them, and self-care tools that can make a difference.