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Handling Change and Stress: Coping Strategies for a Healthier Life

Learn how to effectively handle stress and adapt to change in this informative video. Discover the psychological and physical reactions to stress, understand the different types of stressful events, and explore various coping mechanisms. Enhance your resilience and seek social support for a healthier, stress-free life.

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Handling Change and Stress: Coping Strategies for a Healthier Life

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  1. http://libproxy.csun.edu/login?url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103078&xtid=40271http://libproxy.csun.edu/login?url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=103078&xtid=40271 Chapter 12 Handling Change and Stress

  2. Stress • Psychological and physical reaction that results when a person has trouble coping with a situation, event, or change.

  3. Stressful Events • Unpredictable eventsare more stressful than predictable events. • Getting sick unexpectedly • Uncontrollable eventscause more stress than controllable events. • Being expelled instead of quitting

  4. Uncertain eventsare more stressful than definite events. • Don’t know if you got the job, got accepted to college • Long-term eventscause more stress than brief one-time events. • Being sick for a long time, homelessness, abuse

  5. Responses to Stress • Psychological responses. We first react to stressful events by assessing them: • “Is the situation good, neutral, or bad?” • “Do I have the resources to cope with it?” • “What will the consequences be if I fail to cope?” • “What would failing to cope with the event mean for my self-belief?”

  6. Responses to Stress • Physical responses include: • heightened energy • higher blood pressure • faster heart rate. • This “high alert” response state is eventually physically exhausting.

  7. Long-term responses can be damaging to physical and mental health. • Ongoing stress can weaken the immune system and contribute to heart disease and cancer.

  8. Signs of Stress • Physical signs include: • shortness of breath • increased heart rate • chest pains • headache • Mental signs include decreased concentration, increased forgetfulness

  9. Emotional signs include anxiety, depression, anger, frustration, fear • Behavioral signs include fidgeting, nail biting, increased eating, yelling, blaming

  10. Stress, Personality, and Environment • Attitudes toward change. People who fear change are more susceptible to stress. • Thought patterns. Feelings of helplessness or a need to be in control both bring stress.

  11. Resilience. Positive attitudes and accepting what can’t be changed relieve stress. • Social support. Isolated people are more vulnerable to stress.

  12. Coping With Stress • Deal with the causes. Take steps to eliminate the sources of stress in your life. • Acknowledge the demands of others. Plan to be interrupted and leave “response time” in your schedule.

  13. Learn to say no. Know what you can cope with and be assertive about limiting demands on your time.

  14. What Can you do to reduce stress? • Relieve the symptoms. Lifestyle changes like cutting out caffeine and getting more exercise and sleep can counteract stress. • Seek social support. Ask family and friends to help out and provide emotional support

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