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Chapter 4 Managing Stress & Coping with Loss Lesson 1 Understanding Stress

Chapter 4 Managing Stress & Coping with Loss Lesson 1 Understanding Stress. Stress can affect you in both positive and negative ways. What Is Stress?. How you think about a challenge determines whether you will experience positive or negative stress. Feeling stress. What Is Stress?.

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Chapter 4 Managing Stress & Coping with Loss Lesson 1 Understanding Stress

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  1. Chapter 4 Managing Stress & Coping with Loss Lesson 1 Understanding Stress

  2. Stress can affect you in both positive and negative ways.

  3. What Is Stress? How you think about a challenge determines whether you will experience positive or negative stress. Feeling stress

  4. What Is Stress? • How much the stress of an event affects you, however, depends in part on your perception of it. Perception

  5. Reacting to Stress • Stress can have both a positive and a negative effect. Negative stress can cause you to feel

  6. Causes of Stress Stressors vary among individuals and groups.

  7. Causes of Stress • The effect of a stressor depends on your experiences and perceptions. Stressor

  8. Your Body’s Response to Stressors Stressors activate the nervous system and specific hormones. When you perceive something

  9. Your Body’s Response to Stressors • The stress response involves three stages. Alarm If exposure to a stressor continues, your body adapts and reacts to the stressor. This stage lasts for a brief period. Fatigue

  10. Your Body’s Response to Stressors • Alarm begins when the hypothalamus, a small area at the base of the brain, receives danger signals from other parts of the brain.

  11. Your Body’s Response to Stressors • The pituitary gland

  12. Your Body’s Response to Stressors • The adrenal glands secrete adrenaline.

  13. Your Body’s Response to Stressors

  14. Stress and Your Health Ongoing stress affects all aspects of your health. The physical changes

  15. Stress and Your Health • Prolonged stress can lead to a psychosomatic response. Psychosomatic response

  16. Stress and Your Health The Physical Effects of Stress • Headache • High blood pressure

  17. Stress and Your Health Mental/Emotional and Social Effects of Stress • Difficulty concentrating • Irritability • Mood swings

  18. After You ReadReviewing Facts and Vocabulary • Define the word perception.

  19. After You ReadReviewing Facts and Vocabulary • What are three cognitive stressors for teens?

  20. After You ReadReviewing Facts and Vocabulary • Identify the two body systems involved in the stress response.

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