lesson 2 to manage stress, identify your stressors. you then have a better chance of controlling...
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Lesson 2
To manage stress, identify your stressors. You then have a better chance of controlling them.
How should you start dealing with stress?
Managing Stress
Lesson 2
In this lesson, you’ll learn to:
Identify personal causes of stress.
Demonstrate refusal strategies for avoiding some stressful situations.
Develop strategies for managing stress.
Examine how healthful behaviors help reduce stress.
Lesson Objectives
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Causes of Stress
The first step in stress management is to
identify the causes of stress:
Life events
Physical stressors
Daily hassles
Identifying Personal Causes of Stress
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Using Refusal Skills to Avoid Stress
Demonstrating refusal strategies helps you avoid stressful situations.
Walk away from a tense situation.
Say no when you see the possibility of stress, conflict, or threat.
Avoiding Stress with Refusal Strategies
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Stress-Management Techniques
Plan ahead.
Get enough sleep.
Engage in regular physical activity.
Eat nutritious food.
Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Plan Ahead
A well-thought-out plan is a flexible map that shows many ways of reaching your goal.
When you plan ahead:
You decide in advance what you want to accomplish and what steps you’ll take.
You recognize where variations to your plan may occur.
It better prepares you for unexpected changes.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Get Adequate Sleep
Manage your time wisely so that you get enough rest each night.
This will help you:
Be in a better mood.
Think more clearly.
Look and feel better.
Improve your chances ofsuccess.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Get Regular Physical Activity
When you are under stress, your body has an excess of nervous energy.
Engaging in physical activities can release this pent-up energy.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Eat Nutritious Food
Balanced nutrition is important for overall health.
Poor eating habits cause fatigue, weakness, and a reduced ability to concentrate.
Inappropriate dieting and over- or undereating can also put the body under additional stress.
Too much stress can cause poor absorption of vitamins and minerals, which can lead to deficiencies.
Eat a variety of different foods, drink plenty of water, and eat fresh food whenever possible.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Nutrition Tips for Dealing with Stress
Eat regular meals.
Limit “comfort” foods.
Limit caffeine.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Avoid Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs does not relieve stress.
Substance use makes the body more prone to diseases and has dangerous long-term effects.
Ways to Manage Stress
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Managing Stress
Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.
Stress-Management Techniques
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
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Q. The relaxation response can be
reached by using techniques such as _____.
1. seeking out support
2. deep breathing
3. keeping a positive outlook
4. redirecting energy
Choose the appropriate option.
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A. The relaxation response can be reached by using techniques
such as deep breathing.
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Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. List three personal causes of stress.
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A. Three personal causes of stress are:
1. Life events
2. Physical stressors
3. Daily hassles
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Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. Name three ways to protect yourself from stress.
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A. To avoid stress you need to do the following:
Plan ahead.
Get enough sleep.
Engage in regular physical activity.
Eat nutritious food.
Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
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Jarod has a big biology test on Friday. As he is heading to his room to
study, his friend Ben calls and asks him to go bowling. Use the
techniques discussed in this lesson to help Jarod balance his
activities and manage his stress.
Evaluate the possible techniques.
Quick Review
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Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
Managing Stress
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.
Stress-management skills are skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthful, effective way.
Stress-management skills are skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthful, effective way.
Stress-Management Techniques
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
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Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
Managing Stress
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.
Managing Stress
The relaxation response is a state of calm that can be reached if one or more relaxation techniques are practiced regularly.
The relaxation response is a state of calm that can be reached if one or more relaxation techniques are practiced regularly.
Stress-Management Techniques
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
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A. Correct! The relaxation response can be reached by using
techniques such as deep breathing.
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