What are ways you can overcome a single stressful situation? Journal What are ways you can overcome a single stressful situation? What are ways you can overcome a stressful chronic situation that you cannot avoid?

Healthy Relationships Establishing Boundaries Assertive communication Ideal date

Journal What is a defense mechanism? Give 1 example.

Stress Eustress is positive stress. Positive stress happens at times when winning, succeeding, and achieving occur. Eustress Motivates Energizes Builds confidence It also makes you feel Happy Calm relaxed

Stress Distress is the negative physical, mental, or emotional strain in response to a stressor. Distress can make you sick or interfere with your normal life.

Defense Mechanism Defense Mechanism Descriptions Denial Stress is dealt with by not thinking about stressful problems, thoughts or feelings Projection Uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are dealt with by transferring them to others. Devaluation Stress is dealt with my assignment negative qualities to oneself or others. Sublimation Uncomfortable or dangerous feelings are channeled into more acceptable behaviors. Humor Stressful events or feelings are dealt with by focusing on amusing aspects of the situation. Self-Observation Emotional stress is dealt with by reflecting on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and by expressing these emotions in a healthy way.

Assignment 1:12 Sarah is mad and hurt because her friend Jessica did not invite her to a party. Sarah talks to Jessica about her feelings and asks for an explanation. Self –Observation (Mature) Brook should be worried about her grades in math, but she is not studying for her next math test. Denial (Immature) Russ is angry with his younger sister, so he works off his frustration in the gym. Sublimation (Mature)

Assignment 1:12 Jared is upset that he didn’t make the team. Instead of admitting he is disappointed he complains about how many games the team lost last year. Devaluation (Immature) Lindsey falls down the stairs. She jumps up twirls around and says “that was graceful”. Humor (Mature) Rob has a crush on Brittney, but he denies this and insists that she has a crush on him. Projection (Immature)

Professional Help Psychologist: is a person who tries to change thoughts, feelings, and actions by finding the reason behind them or by suggesting new ways to manage emotions.

Professional Help Psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in illnesses of the brain and body that affect emotions and behavior. They can also prescript the use of medication to help.

Professional Help Counselor- a person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological problems.

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Bullying Jazz! Read through the news paper about bullying. Then have a class discussion. Include the following How can you stop Bullying? How can you help others from getting Bullied? What does it mean to be a good person?

Stress Management Write(trigger journal) Enjoyment Focus on what is changeable What are your controllable factors Meditate Guided imagry

A Drechsler Approach to Stress Sit in silence (meditate) Exercise Take a break Exercise then approach the problem Take a deep breath , then answer Humor Exercise again If all else fails, exercise again

According to Healthy Minds Utah Exercise can… Relieve Stress Improve overall cognitive function Release endorphins Body’s natural pain relievers Reduce anxiety Research based less than sedentary Helps control addiction All about the dopamine and rebuilds Inspires creativity 1 workout increases creativity for 2 hr EXERCISE. LIFT YOUR MOOD.

Failure or Success Understand that sometimes it takes time and a lot of failures to be the best person you can be. In your health journal write down if you think the individual describe on the following slides ended up as a failure or a success.

This person wanted to be a leader, so he ran for president of his class his first year in college and according to his mother, was swamped.

John F. Kennedy

This person wanted to be an actress This person wanted to be an actress. She went to drama school in New York, but the school asked her to leave, saying she had no acting ability.

Lucille Ball

This person didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first computer business called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn't work, his later work did, creating the global computer empire.

Bill Gates

This person lead the baseball league in strike outs for over 20 years.

Babe Ruth

Most people know this person as one of the most iconic faces on TV as well as one of the richest and most successful women in the world. She faced a hard road to get to that position, however, enduring a rough and often abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks including being fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for tv."

Oprah Winfrey

This person wanted to be a famous professional basketball player This person wanted to be a famous professional basketball player. He was cut from his sophomore basketball team. The coach said he wasn’t good enough.

Michel Jordan

This person wanted to be a comedian This person wanted to be a comedian. His 5th grade teacher wrote this in his permanent school file. If he would spend as much time studying as he does trying to be the class clown, someday he’d be a success.

Jay Leno

This famous comedian and movie star wanted to be a performer This famous comedian and movie star wanted to be a performer. He was voted “Least Likely To Succeed” in his high school class.

Robin William

During his lifetime, this painter sold only one painting, and this was to a friend and only for a very small amount of money. While this painter was never a success during his life, he plugged on with painting, sometimes starving to complete his over 800 known works. Today, they bring in hundreds of millions.

Van Gogh

This person’s teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything This person’s teachers said he was too stupid to learn anything. But went on to be one of the most famous inventors of the 20th Century.

Thomas Edison

Like his mother, suffered from dyslexia and was put into the remedial classes at school. He was not an academic success, he focused on athletics and competed in many sports. A knee injury derailed his hopes of a promising athletic career. So he got into acting. Today he is one of the most famous Hollywood actors.

Tom cruise

This famous actress was dropped by the movie studios in 1947, one year into her contract, because her producer thought she was not attractive enough and could not act.

Marilyn monroe

This author may be rolling in a lot of dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. She went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

JK Rowling

This person did not learn to speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. One of his teachers described him as mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.

Albert Einstein

As one of the best-selling artists of all time, this singer has become a household name even years after his death. But back in 1954, he was still a nobody, and his manager fired him after just one performance telling him, "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

Elvis Presley