1. 4 Contents Chapter Stress and Stress Management
Section 1 Stress and Stressors
Section 2 Stress and Your Body
Section 3 The Stress Response
Section 4 Managing Stress

2. Fact or Fiction?
Is this statement true or false? If you think it’s false, explain what is true.
The same event may be very stressful for one person and not at all stressful for another person.

3. Content Vocabulary stress chronic stress acute stress stressor adapt
perception

4. Kinds of Stress
Everyone faces stress. A stressor is anything that requires you to cope with, or adapt to, a situation.

5. Kinds of Stress
Everyone experiences stress at some time in their life. Too much stress can be harmful to your health, but you can learn techniques to reduce stress.
stress
The effect of physical and psychological demands on a person

6. Kinds of Stress
Chronic stress can damage body systems and may lead people who do not know how to cope with stress to practice self-destructive behavior such as using drugs.
chronic stress
Unrelieved stress that continues to tax a person’s resources to the point of exhaustion 6

7. Kinds of Stress
Acute stress is short-term stress that arises when a problem suddenly demands to be solved.
acute stress
A temporary bout of stress that causes alertness or alarm, which prompts a person to deal with a specific event 7

8. All stress is a response to a stressor.
Kinds of Stress
All stress is a response to a stressor.
Stressors are physical or psychological.
It is important to be able to adapt to stressors.
stressor
A physical or psychological demand that requires a person to adapt to a situation
adapt
To change or adjust in order to accommodate new conditions 8

9. The Stressors of High School
All high school students face many stressors. 9

10. The Stressors of High School
When faced with more than one challenge at a time, student GPA and self-esteem may drop.
If change is handled one stressor at a time, then stress levels will be reduced and self-esteem protected. 10

11. The Perception of a Stressor
An event may be more or less stressful, depending on how you perceive that event. 11

12. The Perception of a Stressor
Your reaction to an experience depends on your perception of the event.
Your perception is unique to your life experiences.
perception
A meaning given to an event based on an individual’s previous experience or understanding of it 12

13. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary
What is a stressor?
stressor
A physical or psychological demand that requires a person to adapt to a situation

14. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary
What does adapt mean?
adapt
To change or adjust in order to accommodate new conditions