Effects of Workplace Stress on Employees' Heart Rate Variability

"Everybody knows what stress is and nobody knows what stress is" (Hans Selye, 1976, "The Evolution of the Stress Concept"). "For psychotherapists things are radically different. Their job is to improve the mental functioning of their patients. But how can they tell when their interventions are going wrong or, for that matter, right? Where is the feedback? Most psychotherapists gauge how their clients are responding to treatment not with objective data, but by observing them in clinic. But this data is highly unreliable. After all, patients might be inclined to exaggerate how well they are to please the therapist, a well-known issue in psychotherapy. But there is a deeper problem. Psychotherapists rarely track their clients after therapy is finished. This means that they do not get any feedback on the lasting impact of their interventions. They have no idea if their methods are working or failing in terms of actually improving long-term functioning." (Matthew Syed, 2015, "Black Box Thinking"). "This project is about you. It's about the stress we have experienced whether or not we are aware of it, it's just there." (Dr. Adrian Low, 2018, Author)

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Dr. Adrian Low is a chartered psychologist from the British Psychological Society and he is the president of Hong Kong Association of Psychology. His doctoral project Effects of Workplace Stress on Hong Kong Employees Heart Rate Variability has won the 2018 Presidential Award for Doctoral Project Excellence at California Southern University.

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Everybody knows what stress is and nobody knows what stress is (Hans Selye, 1976, The Evolution of the Stress Concept ). For psychotherapists things are radically different. Their job is to improve the mental functioning of their patients. But how can they tell when their interventions are going wrong or, for that matter, right? Where is the feedback? Most psychotherapists gauge how their clients are responding to treatment not with objective data, but by observing them in clinic. But this data is highly unreliable. After all, patients might be inclined to exaggerate how well they are to please the therapist, a well-known issue in psychotherapy. But there is a deeper problem. Psychotherapists rarely track their clients after therapy is finished. This means that they do not get any feedback on the lasting impact of their interventions. They have no idea if their methods are working or failing in terms of actually improving long-term functioning." (Matthew Syed, 2015, Black Box Thinking"). "This project is about you. It s about the stress we have experienced whether or not we are aware of it, it s just there." (Dr. Adrian Low, 2018, Author)