Stress Management Techniques

What is stress?

• Fighting

• bodies response to real or imagined danger or other life events

• school projects

What are the two types of stress

• Positive

• Negative

• Happy

• Angry

Positive Stress is

• Bad Stress

• Stress that allows you to not do anything

• Stress that can help you reach your goals

What is negative stress

• Stress that prevents you from doing what you need to do

• Stress that is good

• Stress that allows you to be who you are

What is a stressor?

• Only good things in your life

• Only bad things things in your life

• Anything that causes stress

What are examples of stressors?

• An upcoming test

• A rumor about you

• Pain

• Having fun with your friends

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

What are examples of healthy coping skills?

• Getting organized

• Breathing exercises

• Talking with a trusted adult

• Keeping all of my problems to myself

Click the healthy coping skills.

• Playing sports

• Listening to music

• Taking a walk in the fresh air

• Ignoring my responsibilities

Choose the unhealthy coping skill.

• Giving up on the situation

• Coming up with a plan

• Exercise

• Hanging out with friends