Chapter 3: Managing Stress

Chapter 3: Managing Stress

What is Stress?

• Stress is the response of your body and mind to being challenged or threatened. You experience stress when situations, events, or people make demands on your body

• Stress can be Negative/ Positive

• "Pressure is a Privilege"

What is stress?

• Positive stress is sometimes called eustress. Negative stress is sometimes called distress.

Multiple Choice

Which situation do you believe you may have eustress?

• After committing a crime.

• Before a big sporting event.

• When you stress so much about a test you can't sleep.

• When you start to develop headaches.

Multiple Select

Which options are part of the four major stressors?

• Major Life Changes

• Marriage

• Everyday Problems

• Major Illness/Injury

• Catastrophes

Multiple Choice

Which would be considered a major life change?

• Hurricane Katrina

• A parent losing their job.

• Deciding what dress to wear to prom

• Looking for your textbook in your messy room.

How Stress Affects Your Body

• Alarm Stage- Body releases adrenaline.

• Your heart beats faster, your breathing speeds up, and your muscles tense. Your attention narrows as you focus on the stressor.

How Stress Affects Your Body

• Resistance Stage- The body now adapts to the stressor, and the symptoms may disappear. However, the body uses a lot of energy.

• What may happen is that you may start to tired, irritable, and less able to handle any added stress.

How Stress Affects Your Body

• Exhaustion Stage- Your body can no longer keep up with the physical or emotional demands that are being placed upon it.

• This stage only occurs if the stressor is continuous for weeks, months, and years.

Multiple Choice

Stress can trigger certain illnesses, reduce the body's ability to fight an illness.

• True

• False

Coping with Stress

• Build Your Resilience- View as challenges

• Take Care of Yourself- Eat Well, Rest, do things you like.

• Build a support system- Find people you can lean on. Who will listen and tell you what you NEED to hear.

• Take Action- Set Goals, complete tasks early

• Help Someone/Community Project- Help a friend, a grandparent. Give out good positive vibes.

• Confide in yourself/ Mood Journal

Multiple Choice

A student who fell behind has now started to use an accountability mirror. They now write goals for themselves and now take steps to improve and make up the assignments. Which best represents the students action?

• Helping a friend

• Building a Support System

• Take Care of Yourself

• Taking Action

Multiple Choice

Sarah has been having trouble with school and performing in softball. She has scouts who are coming to upcoming games to watch her compete. The pressure is starting to become overwhelming. Sarah goes to one of her friends in order to vent and talk about her feelings. Which strategy is Sarah using to build resilience to the pressure?

• Confiding in Yourself

• Taking action

• Building a Support System

• Helping Someone

Coping with Stress

• Build Your Resilience

• Go easy on yourself- Cut yourself some slack. " You're not going to master the rest of your life in one day".

• Put Things in Perspective- There are always positives with negatives.

• Find a hassle free-zone- A palace where you can feel at peace. Can complete work or go to meditate.

• Stick to your routines

Open Ended

Where might you go to complete work or have no worries?

The place I would go to or escape to would be ________.

Coping with Stress

• Strategies

• Exercise- Put physical stress on your body to relieve mental stress

• Light a Candle - some scents can be calming and relaxing.

• Write it down- Write down what you are grateful for. Switching your thoughts from negative to positive.

• Laugh - It’s hard to feel anxious when you’re laughing. It’s good for your health, and there are a few ways it may help relieve stress.

Open Ended

How might you utilize the " Light a Candle" strategy. What might be common ways to combine it with an activity?

Coping with Stress

• Strategies

• Mental Rehearsal- Visualization, seeing yourself doing your best.

• Get Organized- Build a habit of using an agenda, to-do list.

• Reach out - Go to a teacher, parent, counselor. They won't tell you what you want to hear but what you need to hear.

Open Ended

Out of all of the strategies, which strategy would you be most likely to use? Why?

I would use ______ because _________.

Poll

Is Quizizz something you would like Mr. T to use again for lectures?

• Yes , it was fun and different

• No, I don't like it.

• Please Never Again

• I don't Care