How to Manage Stress and Burnout in Architecture
AIA25-HANDW01
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Course expires on: 04/12/2028
Description
Architects face a unique blend of creativity, precision, and pressure. Between challenging clients, tight deadlines, and high expectations, stress can build quickly and, if left unmanaged, can impact both professional performance and personal well-being. How to Manage Stress and Burnout in Architecture is a practical, engaging, and self-paced course designed specifically for architecture professionals. It explores the nature of stress and how the body responds to it, and how to identify and manage stress and burnout. Through real-world scenarios from architectural practice, the course empowers learners with effective strategies to maintain balance, foster resilience, and reduce the harmful effects of stress and burnout—both on the job and in daily life.
Learning Objectives
Define stress and distinguish between its helpful and harmful effects, including the physical, emotional, and behavioral signs and symptoms of stress relevant to the field of architecture.
Explain how the body responds to stress and recognize the stages of the stress response cycle—from initial trigger through depletion and recovery.
Identify internal and external stress triggers, and classify them as acute or chronic, using self-reflection tools and real-life architectural scenarios.
Apply practical strategies to reduce and manage stress, including coping techniques tailored to common challenges architects face in high-pressure work environments.
Identify the signs and stages of burnout and apply at least three evidence-based strategies to prevent or recover from burnout.