Time: From 15:00 until 17:00

Place: "Joan Pelechano” Assembly Hall (Block 0, ETSE-UV Building)

Stress is a feeling of physical or emotional strain that is triggered when someone perceives a situation or event as threatening or overwhelming. Our frenetic lifestyle turns the stress into a damage to our society.

Stress is a feeling of physical or emotional strain that is triggered when someone perceives a situation or event as threatening or overwhelming. Our frenetic lifestyle turns the stress into a damage to our society.

Even if everyone may ever feel stressed, experts warn against the devastating effects that chronic stress can have on our health (memory loss, headache, stiff neck or jaw, fatigue, sleeping disorder, high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, obesity, depression or anxiety, etc.) and they inform us about the possibility to fight them by doing different activities. Stress does not always have negative consequences. Sometimes its presence represents a perfect opportunity to implement new personal resources, thus boosting our self-esteem and increasing future opportunities of success.

Speaker: Dra. Mª Amparo Cotolí Crespo

Mª Amparo Cotolí Crespo is Dr. of Psychology and Professor of the Department of Psychological Personality, Evaluation and Treatment of the Faculty of Psychology of the UV. She worked in the private practice of the profession as clinical psychologist from 1992 until 2012. During this period, she kept in touch with the UV as adjunct professor. Currently she works as a contracted professor holding a PhD.

She has done several courses and workshops in different programmes of the University Extension Service. Nowadays she is part of “La Nau dels Estudiants” programmes and the Entreiguals Programme of the Information Service and Student's Promotion (SeDi). Her task is focused on the management of stress and anxiety and the development of social and communication skills.