Marcus is a newly promoted junior project manager at an engineering firm. He is highly anxious about leading his first major client pitch. He lies awake at night catastrophising that the client will reject the proposal and that his senior director will fire him. He feels intense physical anxiety during team stand-up meetings and avoids contacting his director for feedback because he is convinced he will be told his design calculations are completely incompetent.
Describe stress inoculation therapy (SIT) as a method of managing stress, and explain how Marcus's stress could be managed using this therapy.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Stress with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 100 questions covering Physiology of stress, Role of stress in illness, Sources of stress, Measuring stress, Individual differences in stress, and Managing and coping with stress, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.