2020 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Strategy for Mental and Physical Health 1
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Naoyuki Hayashi / Mitsue Nagamine
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Wed (W621)
- Class
- 1
- Course Code
- LAH.A521
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on 1. summary of stress and mental health including the present status, 2. lifestyle tips for better physical and mental health, and 3. basic knowledge of stress management theory.
Many diseases are originated from daily physical and mental stresses, while these stresses are necessary for better phsical and metally active states. This course introduces basic concept of stress, what kind of lifestyles are good and bad for physical and mental states, and some effective methods for stress management.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, in order to tough phsical and mental states, students will be able to:
1) explain basic concept of physical and mental stress,
2) acquire the ability tof stress management, and
3) propose a better practical lifestyle for stress management for yourself and others.
Keywords
pysical and mental states, toughness, stress management
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The classees are consisted mainly of lectures, and includes some exercises for stress management methods.
Attendance is taken in every class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Overview of physical and mental stress | Understand the concept of stress. |
| Class 2 | Theory of stress. | Understand the cognitive appraisal theory of stress. |
| Class 3 | Overview of coping. | Understand the coping. |
| Class 4 | Stress management methodology | Acquire effective stress managements. Midterm paper. |
| Class 5 | Current situation around mental health and its related diseases | Understand current situation and stats on mental health and diseases. |
| Class 6 | Physiological and psychological responses to short and long term stress | Understand responses to stresss. |
| Class 7 | Preferable effects of various activity (physical exercise, mental tasks and relaxation) on physical and mental states, Summary and Discussion. | Understand effects of leisure activities on physical and mental states. Understand uncertainty of health-related information on the net via groupwork. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required
Reference books, course materials, etc.
R.S. Lazarus& S. Folkman, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping, New York: Springer, ISBN-13 978-0826141910 (English)
D.Meichenbaum, Coping with stress, Century publishing, ISBN-13 978-0712602426 (English)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students' course scores are based on midterm and final papers (80%) and exercise acquiremets (20%).
The instructor may fail a student if s/he repeatedly is absent and comes to class late too often.
Related courses
- LAW.W101 ： Health Science
- LAW.W111 ： Laboratory of Health Science
- LAH.T312 ： Special Lecture: Sports Science
Prerequisites
None
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
nagamine.mitsue[at]ila.titech.ac.jp (four lectures)
naohayashi[at]ila.titech.ac.jp (three lectures)
Other
No classes will be given on April 8 (Wed).
Seven total classes will be held for this course: April 15 (Wed), April 22 (Wed), May 13 (Wed), May 20 (Wed), May 27 (Wed), June 3 (Wed), ※June 5 (Fri).
※Please take note that June 5 (Fri) is a Friday but is part of the Wednesday course schedule.