1. Managing Stress and Coping with Loss
Agenda:
Warmup = Managing Stress and Coping with Loss Reading Passage/Mathematics
What is Stress?
Brain Break
Managing Stress
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Coping with Loss and Grief

2. Warm Up
5 Minute Brain Break: Must stay in seat and talk quietly. Phones will be taken if out. Attendance and Role will be Taken By Instructor
Complete Reading Comprehension and Mathematics Challenge by yourself. No Talking. You have 20 Minutes to complete this challenge.
Pass Packet to the person to the right. If you are the last person on the right give your paper to the person to the left.

3. Essential Question
How can stress affect your mental, emotional, and physical health?

4. What is Stress?
Stress is the reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands.
Stress can slowly build for days. But how much the stress of an event affect you, however, depends in part on your perception of it.
Describe perception in your own words?
Perception – is the act of becoming aware through the senses.

5. Take A Stance True or False: Stress is always unhealthy
Raise your hand if you think this is true.
False – Stress can have both a positive and negative effect. Positive stress can motivate you. For example, this type of stress can inspire you to work harder if you have a deadline approaching.

6. Causes of Stress
Stress has a negative effect when it interferes with your ability to perform. It might cause you to feel distracted, overwhelmed, impatient, frustrated, or even angry. Negative stress can harm your health.
A stressor is anything that causes stress. Stressors can be real or imagined, anticipated or unexpected. People, objects, places, events, and situations are potential stressors.

7. Brain Break 5 minutes Edpuzzle Video:
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8. Managing Stress
Chronic Stress – stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a persons control.
Chronic stress disrupts nearly every system in your body. It can shut down your immune system, upset your digestive and reproductive systems, raise blood pressure, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, speed up the aging process and leave you vulnerable to many mental and physical health problems.

9. Stress-Management Techniques
Use refusal skills. Determine whether you have time for a new activity before agreeing to take it on.
Plan ahead. Manage your time wisely by planning ahead.
Think positively. We can’t control everything in our lives, but we can control how we respond to events.

10. Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
Practice relaxation techniques. Deep breathing, thinking pleasant thoughts, stretching, taking a warm bath, getting a massage, and even laughing can relieve your stress.
Redirect your energy. When intense energy build up from stress, the best thing to do is use that energy in a constructive way. You can put your nervous energy to good use by working on a creative project, going for a walk or a swim, jogging, playing a game of basketball.
Seek Support. Sometimes just talking about your problem can make you feel better.

11. Progressive Muscle Relaxation

12. Brain Break
5 minutes

13. Coping with Loss and Grief
The Grieving Process
Denial or Numbness
Emotional Release
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Remorse
Acceptance
Hope

14. Coping with Death
Most people respond to loss by mourning, the act of showing sorrow or grief. Mourning includes talking about the person experience the pain of the loss, and searching for meaning.
A traumatic event is any event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm your normal coping strategies. Traumatic events are sudden and shocking.
Example include car accident, violent assaults, suicides, and natural disasters.

15. Exit Slip
Complete questions on a separate sheet of paper.