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Stress Management Strategies for a Busy Week

Explore positive coping behaviors to manage stress in a hectic week, learn about stress response stages, identify controllable stressors, and develop healthy coping strategies. Address stress factors, effects, and coping mechanisms.

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Stress Management Strategies for a Busy Week

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  1. Warm Up • Please write your response in your day book • Remember to write the date, page number, and assignment in the table of contents • What positive behaviors are helping you control the stress of this particularly busy week? • What are some examples of healthy activities that could help you relax after a busy school day?

  2. Today’s Objectives • Today we are going to be discussing the importance of recognizing the stressors in your life and how the body responds: physically and mentally. • By the end of the lesson you should be able to determine which stressors are within your control and identify a variety of strategies to cope with the stress in your life.

  3. Stress • The body’s nonspecific response to any demand put on it • Regardless of the cause of stress, the body goes through a patterned response

  4. Fight or Flight = ALARM Stage Stage 1: Alarm Stage “Fight or Flight” Response Adrenaline is release into the bloodstream, causing physical changes in the body. Body responses: increased heart rate, sweating, digestion slows or stops, muscles tense, pupils dilate.

  5. Resistance Stage • Stage 2: Resistance Stage • Acts as an equalizer • Brings body functions back to normal

  6. Exhaustion Stage • Stage 3: Exhaustion Stage • Energy is depleted • Body returns to normal if stress is removed • Body goes back to alarm stage if stress continues which can result in stress-related diseases: • Skin disorders • Gastrointestinal upset • Menstrual irregularities • Cardiovascular disorders

  7. Healthy Amounts of Stress • Stress acts as a motivator, but too much stress can lead to mental illness such as anxiety or depression.

  8. Teens & Stress • When stress is not managed it may lead to: • Headaches • Stomach problems • Mood swings • Difficulty paying attention • More serious reactions: • Depression • Mental illness • Suicide

  9. Stressors in the Modern World? • Unemployment • Financial difficulties • Traffic • Social frustrations • Deadlines: homework, career, taxes, bills

  10. Stressors before Modern Civilization • Need for food • Need for water • Need for shelter • Successfully hunting and gathering • Surviving constant threats in life

  11. Stress Management in Ancient Civilizations • Spirituality/Religion • Hieroglyphics • Constellations • FINDING MEANING IN LIFE

  12. Stress Management Today • Eat • Exercise • Hurt self (cutting) • Prayer and meditation • Rx medications • Smoking/ drinking/ drugs • Talking to friends and family • Television, reading, or listening to music • Deep breaths

  13. The Stress Checklist • Paste your stress checklist in your daybook • Check off all the items that have happened to you in the last 6 months • You will not have to share this with the class • Many of these are sensitive topics

  14. Which stressors do you have control over? • Example: • Within your control- difficulty with a school subject • You cannot control- divorce • What are some ways you can control having a difficult time with a school subject? • Ask questions in class • Get extra help from your teacher or student • Spend extra time on this subject • Study for tests

  15. Partner Up • Find a partner or a group of 3 sitting near you • From the list- pick one stressor you have control over and one stressor you do not have control over. • In your group discuss and list ways to cope with the stressor

  16. In Your Day Book • Answer the following questions: • Why is it important to develop positive coping strategies to deal with the stressors in your lives? • Which stressors were the easiest to develop strategies for? Stressors in your control or not in your control?

  17. Controlling My Stressors • Paste this handout in your daybook • You may use 2 pages if needed • Select stressors that you are currently dealing with • For each one of the stressors write ways that you can cope

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