1. Chapter 4
Managing Stress & Coping
with Loss
Lesson 2
Managing Stress

2. You can manage stress by learning skills to reduce the amount and impact of stress in your life.

3. When Stress Becomes a Problem
Identifying what is stressful is the first step in learning how to manage stress.
The trick for managing stress is

4. When Stress Becomes a Problem
The effects of stress are additive, meaning they build up over time. An increasing number of teens are experiencing chronic stress.
Chronic Stress

5. Stress-Management Techniques
You can develop strategies to both avoid and reduce your stress.
Stress-management skills help you

6. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Avoiding situations that cause stress is
If you’re unable to avoid a stressor,

7. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Strategies for Avoiding and Limiting Stress
If taking on a new activity will add to your stress, use refusal skills to say no.
Plan ahead.
A positive outlook limits stress by shifting your perception and how you respond to a stressor.
Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

8. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Overcoming Test Anxiety

9. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Planning ahead can

10. Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
For stressors that are unavoidable, practice stress reduction techniques to achieve a relaxation response.
Relaxation Response

11. Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
To lower the impact of stress on your health, try these tips:
Deep breathing, thinking pleasant thoughts, stretching, taking a warm bath, and even laughing can relieve your stress.
When energy builds up from stress, use that energy in a constructive way. Work on a creative project or engage in physical activity.
Seek support

12. Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
Taking care of your health is essential to stress management.
Positive health-maintenance habits help you

13. Get Adequate Rest
Adequate sleep can
Using time-management skills

14. Get Regular Physical Activity
Participating in regular physical activity
Physical activity can release

15. Eat Nutritious Foods
Eating a variety of healthful foods and drinking plenty of water not only helps your body function properly,
Poor eating habits can contribute to

16. Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
By including self-maintenance and stress-management strategies
Resiliency helps you handle difficulties and challenges

17. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is chronic stress?

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify four strategies to avoid or limit stress.

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify three relaxation techniques.