Year 8 Stress Unit

What is stress?

• Stress is a natural human response that prompts us to address challenges and threats in our lives.

• Stress is bad and should be avoided at all costs

• Stress is something that is done to us by external means

• Stress can be defined as feeling relaxed and excited

What does stress affect?

• The mind

• The mind and body

• The body

• Nothing

What emotions might someone feel when stressed?

• Anxiety

• Headache

• Sweating

• Happy

What behaviour might someone exhibit when stressed?

• Laughing

• Easy to sleep

• Smiling

• Insomnia

Does everyone respond to stress the same way?

• Yes

• No

Select the signs of stress

• Butterflies in the stomach

• Shaking hands

• Fast breathing

• Red face

Select the symptoms of stress

• Butterflies in the stomach

• Headache

• Shallow breathing

• Sweating

Step 1 : Name and describe a familiar stressful situation a year 7 student may face at KGV. Step 2 : Name and describe a coping strategy the student can use to manage this stressful situation

Step 1: Name and describe an unfamiliar stressful situation a year 7 student may face at KGV. Step 2: Name and describe a coping strategy the student can use to manage this stressful situation

Other than the strategies you have already listed above please name 2 more strategies you know about and describe how someone would do them