STRESS MANAGEMENT

What is the definition of stress?

• CRA

• the body’s automatic response to any physical or mental demand placed on it.

• endless works

What is a coping skill?

• Strategies you put into place to help you manage stress

• Running away from all of your problems

• Anything that causes stress

Choose the unhealthy coping skill.

• Giving up on the situation

• Coming up with a plan

• Exercise

• Hanging out with friends

What is chronic stress?

• Stress that continues for a long period of time.

• Stress that happens for a day.

• Negative stress

Which of the following is not a stress-management skill?

• Problem solving

• Bargaining

• Understanding self

• Confidence building

Stress management is about learning:

• How to avoid the pressures of life

• How to develop skills that would enhance our body’s adjustment when we are subjected to the pressures of life

• Time Management

• None of the above

A limited amount of stress :

• Can be exciting and prevent boredom

• can help in reacting to opportunities quickly

• Can increase your focus

• All of the above

What is a stressor?

• A disease

• An irritant

• Your husband

• Situations, activities, and relationships that cause ‘trauma’ to one’s physical, emotional, or psychological self

By understanding ourselves,

we can

• Know what we can and cannot do

• Argue with anyone easily

• Plan what and how we can improve ourselves

• Feel confident about ourselves

How can we cope better with stress?

• Learn to ignore it and it will go away

• Drink lot of water in moderation to help numb the pain

• Identify stress triggers and learn to deal with it in a positive manner

• Go to the Doctors and ask for tranquilizers