Dr. Noel Roukoz, NDU-SC’s psychosocial counselor, gave a lecture on Friday, March 5, 2010 about “Stress: Its Effects and Peoples’ Psychological Reactions to It”. The lecture discussed many aspects of this widespread problem, namely:

• - What is stress?
• How can one recognize the different types of psychological reactions that stressed-out people make?
• What is the difference between STRESS, DISTRESS and psychological DISORDER? And what effect does each have on a person’s moral, physical and social well-being?
• Who needs professional medical or psychological attention or care?
• What are cope strategies that people use in cases of mourning, anguish and the loss of a loved one?

It was a very informative and beneficial lecture.