It's National Stress Awareness Week, and nearly one million people in the UK have reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety according to figures from the Health and Safety Executive.
Now a University of Plymouth PhD student is looking for people to test whether a bespoke resilience technique can help people to combat the effects.
Despina Djama is exploring whether Functional Imagery Training (FIT) can improve employees' resilience to stressful situations.
FIT is a psychological technique that uses mental imagery to help people achieve their goals. Created and developed at the University of Plymouth, it has already been proven to help people lose weight, as well as improving soldiers' resilience during commando training.
While employers can do a lot to reduce stress in the workplace, there are certain stressors - such as changing priorities and unforeseen staff absence - that are difficult to avoid, and the study is hoping to equip people with the tools they need to deal with such obstacles.
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