1. Special Note to the Instructor
This new edition comes with a dynamic new set of PowerPoint slides, with a new emphasis on relaxing background images (taken by the author) to engage the students (who now expect dynamic visuals) into the material. A good teacher knows that each PowerPoint slide is NOT crammed with notes, but rather a brief outline that the instructor uses to teach from. The PowerPoint slides for this 6th edition were created this way.
Additionally, each chapter comes with an extra slide template at the end (the same as this one) for you to make additional
slides, as you wish. I encourage you to augment each
chapter slide set with additional images, video clips,
and additional textbook content that enhances the
classroom experience for all students.

2. Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being
Managing
Stress
Principles and Strategies
for Health and Well-Being
Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D.

3. The Nature of Stress Section I “Life is either a daring adventure,
or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller

4. Chapter 1
The Nature
of Stress

5. “I cannot and should not be cured of my stress, but merely taught to enjoy it.”
—Hans Selye

6. Times of Change
and Uncertainty

7. Times of Change and Uncertainty
• The terms “change” and “stress” are often used
synonymously.
• Typically, people don’t like change!
• We are living in a confluence of many changes coming
together. People are feeling overwhelmed.
• This, on top of personal stressors, compounds stress.
• Where there is change, however, there is opportunity!

8. The 24/7, on-demand, rushed lifestyle often leaves people overwhelmed, tired, and frustrated—STRESS!

9. The association between chronic
stress and a host of health-related issues is now undisputed.

10. Figure 1.1. Leading Causes of Death in America

11. Definitions of Stress • Stress is any change you encounter
• Stress is wear and tear on the body
• Stress is the inability to cope with problems
• Stress is the loss of emotional control
• Stress is the absence of inner peace

12. Definitions of Stress
Stress is a perceived threat (real or imagined) to our mind, body, spirit, or emotions.

13. The Fight-or-Flight
Response

14. The Stress Response Stage 1: Stimuli is sent to the brain.
by Walter Cannon
Stage 1: Stimuli is sent to the brain.
Stage 2: Brain deciphers stimuli: THREAT!
Nervous system is activated for survival.
Stage 3: Body stays activated until threat is
over.
Stage 4: Body returns to homeostasis
(physiological calmness, once the threat is gone).

15. The Stress Response Physical Symptoms • Increased blood pressure
• Increased heart rate
• Increased vasodilation to periphery
• Increased serum glucose for energy metabolism
• Increased free fatty acids for energy metabolism
• Increased blood clotting ability
• Increased neural activity to muscles (contraction)
• Decreased gastric activity
• Increased perspiration (to cool body temp)

16. Types of Stress

17. Types of Stress
• Eustress (good stress) • Neustress (neutral stress) • Distress (bad stress)

18. Types of Distress • Acute Stress
(short in duration; minutes, but intense)
• Chronic Stress
(much longer in duration; days, weeks,
etc., but nowhere near as intense)

19. Figure 1.3. The Yerkes-Dodson Curve:
Beyond the optimal point, stress will surely affect performance and health.

20. Tend and Befriend
by Shelley Taylor

21. Types of Stressors

22. Types of Stressors • Bioecological Influences
• Psychointrapersonal Influences
• Social Influences

23. Bioecological Influences

24. Psychointrapersonal Influences

25. Social Influences

26. Social Readjustment Rating Scale
By Holmes & Rahe

27. Table 1.1. The Social Readjustment Rating Scale

28. Table 1.3. Stress units associated with common life changes experienced by college students

29. General Adaptation Syndrome
Hans Selye’s
General Adaptation Syndrome
Stage 1: Alarm Reaction
Stage 2: Stage of Resistance
Stage 3: Stage of Exhaustion

30. Stress and Insomnia

31. The Importance of
Good Sleep Hygiene

32. Stress in a
Changing World

33. Technostress

34. Technostress • Information Overload • Boundaries • Privacy • Ethics
• Less Family Time
• Computer Dating
• Outdated Technology
• The Digital Divide

35. College Stress • Roommate Dynamics • Professional Pursuits
• Academic Deadlines
• Financial Aid/Loans
• Budgeting Your Money
• Lifestyle Behaviors
• Peer Groups/Pressure
• Exploring Sexuality
• Frienships
• Intimate Relationships
• Professional Career Path

36. Race and Gender Issues

37. Occupational
Stress

38. The American Institute on Stress reports that 80% of workers report feeling job-related stress
resulting in burnout, absenteeism, and presenteeism.

39. Stress and the
Retired Population

40. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

41. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a debilitating mental disorder that follows after a person has encountered a terrifying or traumatic life-threatening experience such as combat, natural disasters, serious accident/injury or violent assault.

42. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Symptoms:
• Chronic anxiety
• Nightmares
• Flashbacks
• Insomnia
• Hyper vigilance
• Emotional detachment
• Restlessness
• Substance addictions
• Suicidal tendencies

43. A Holistic Approach
to Stress Management

44. Figure 1.9. Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

45. Holistic Wellness Paradigm
“The integration, balance, and harmony of mind, body, spirit, and emotions where the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.”

46. Figure 1.10. Two different perspectives of the same wellness model paradigm.

47. Holistic Wellness Emotional Well-Being Mental Well-Being
Physical Well-Being
Spiritual Well-Being

48. “I’m an old man now. And I have known a great many problems in
my life...
most of which never happened.
—Mark Twain