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Level 1 Award in Stress Awareness
Key Facts
Qualification Number: NCFE 600/5976/X
Duration: 1 to 3 months
Credit Value: 3
Guided Learning Hours: 24 hours
Fee: £150
Who is this qualification for?
This qualification is made up of a single knowledge-based unit and aims to improve learners’ understanding of stress. They will look at the causes of stress and the effects stress can have on health. They will also learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of stress and look at ways of preventing or reducing stress.
Programme Goals
The aim of this qualification is to:
Provides learners with an opportunity to understand what stress is, its causes and how it can affect people in various ways.
Help to develop an understanding of the different types of stress and how to recognise when they are experiencing stress that could have potentially harmful effects.
Explore a range of healthy strategies that can be used to prevent and reduce the effects of stress they encounter in their daily lives.
Learners will also gain an understanding of when and how they should seek specialist help if they are experiencing significant levels of stress.
This qualification will give candidates the opportunity to:
Achieve a nationally recognised qualification valued by employers
Develop knowledge of stress that can be applied in the workplace
Continue professional development
Programme Delivery
This qualification is regulated in the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) and provides learners with a wide range of knowledge of stress that can be applied to any role. It provides learners with a range of knowledge to help them understand what causes stress and helps to develop approaches towards developing strategies towards understanding stress and when to seek professional support.
This is a knowledge only qualification and is assessed using a mandatory workbook in line with the relevant assessment strategy and no real work environment placement is required.
To achieve the Level 1 Award in Stress Awareness a student must achieve 3 credits through the completion of one mandatory unit.
Assessment plans and portfolio evidence will be assessed by a fully qualified and occupationally competent coach/assessor virtually on a one-to-one basis using a variety of methods and delivered flexibly according to the needs of the learner.
Portfolio evidence including the workbook will then be internally quality assessed and externally certified by the Awarding Body NCFE.
Further information about this qualification can be found by reading the standards here or please send your enquiry to [email protected]