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)