Course Information:
Managing Stress for Funeral Professionals
Provides a step-by-step guideline to use in analyzing stress, and then resolving the stress, through understanding and relaxation techniques.
Funeral service is filled with opportunities for stressful situations to occur - from the stress of meeting deadlines and attending to details, to the challenge of maintaining knowledge of regulatory guidelines and dealing with the inherent stress that comes from working with families experiencing loss. Funeral directors should have as many tools available to help manage stress when it occurs, during the workday as well as during time away from the funeral home. Achieving a work-life balance depends on being able to recognize stress when it occurs, and have the ability to defuse and avoid stressors in day-to-day living.
Funeral Directors who complete this course will learn how they can control their stress levels and to avoid certain stressors. By understanding the causes stress, and be able to balance their work life with their life outside funeral service as well as being better equipped to handle stressful situations when they, occur.
The Author
Alice Adams has been affiliated with the funeral service profession since 1989, serving as director of training and development for personnel involved, in every aspect of funeral home and cemetery operations. More recently, she is a contributing editor to The Texas Director, a monthly publication for the Texas Funeral Directors Association.
A graduate of the University of Texas, she holds degrees in education/mass communications and is a doctoral candidate at The University of Houston in the field of education leadership with a specialization in adult education.
She has developed educational materials for funeral directors for more than a decade and has authored more than two dozen continuing educational modules as well as textbooks used in mortuary schools across the country.
She has also co-written more than a dozen self-development books in the field of management and communications. An award-winning writer, she recently earned two first-place awards in the Texas Gulf Coast Press Association’s Annual Writing Competition.
