- 28.4.2026
- 16.30–18.00 CEST
- Zoom Webinar
EPA Webinar 2026
Stress Management within Higher Emotional Labor Demands – Resilience and Peer Support
Key learning objectives:
Identify key neuroscientific stress pathways (LC-NE, HPA) and their roles in appraisal, regulation, and maladaptation.
Interpret common stress biomarkers (cortisol, inflammatory markers) and explain how resilience moderates their associations.
Apply a multilevel, time-dynamic framework to differentiate resilience trajectories, including post-traumatic growth/emergent functioning.
Outline therapeutic companionship strategies (psychoeducation, support scaffolding, peer-to-peer respite) that promote flexible coping and reduce caregiver burden.
Draft Programme
16:30 – 16:45 | Gamze Erzin& David Gurrea Salas – Welcome, context and speakers’ introduction
16:45 – 17:10 | Christiaan H. Vinkers – Stress and resilience: from neurobiology to daily life
17:10 – 17:35 | Hale Yapıcı Eser – Navigating Social Role Stressors and Life Transitions: Resilience and Peer Support in High Emotional Labor Environments
17:35 – 17:50 | Q&A Session
17:50 – 18:00 | Gamze Erzin & David Gurrea Salas – Conclusions
This webinar integrates cutting-edge evidence on how stress is generated, regulated, and therapeutically modulated across neurobiological and psychosocial levels, and how these processes foster resilient outcomes. We begin with a concise tour of core pathways—the locus-coeruleus–noradrenergic system and the HPA axis—showing how stressor detection, appraisal, and amygdala–prefrontal circuitry shape attention, memory, and coping, and when these dynamics become maladaptive under chronic load, highlighting that resilience can buffer stress biology and that current evidence is more consistent for inflammation than for cortisol.
For any question, please contact Simone De Ioanna (simone.deioanna@europsy.net) in advance of the webinar.