There are times in our lives when we are subjected to high demands from our environment and we feel stressed. However, when this stress becomes disabling in some areas and we are not able to cope with it, the help of a professional is necessary. As in any psychological problem, an individual evaluation is necessary to establish which are the situations that cause us stress and see how we respond to them.
The role of the psychologist in stress
Once the psychologist has carried out the evaluation, he will offer us an approach to the problem. It is at this point in the therapy that the professional explains the specific characteristics of our problem, will offer us information on how stress works in our case, and will set out some treatment objectives to be met in relation to our particular case.
In the treatment phase, the professional will instruct us to modify potentially stressful aspects of our environment, and will also teach us to respond appropriately to those that do not depend on us.
As in all psychological treatment, our role must be active, that is, learning new strategies in the face of stress must be put into practice constantly so that in the long term it becomes a habit.
In addition, to consolidate this new way of behaving in stressful situations, we must work with the psychologist to prevent future problems that lead us to respond wrongly again.
It is important to take into account that any psychological problem underlies an explanation based on learning, that is, every psychological problem is learned and therefore it is possible to learn to unlearn.
