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

2. Stress can affect you in both positive and negative ways.

3. What Is Stress?
How you think about a challenge determines whether you will experience positive or negative stress.
Feeling stress

4. What Is Stress?
How much the stress of an event affects you, however, depends in part on your perception of it.
Perception

5. Stress can have both a positive and a negative effect.
Reacting to Stress
Stress can have both a positive and a negative effect.
Negative stress can cause you to feel

6. Causes of Stress
Stressors vary among individuals and groups.

7. The effect of a stressor depends on your experiences and perceptions.
Causes of Stress
The effect of a stressor depends on your experiences and perceptions.
Stressor

8. Your Body’s Response to Stressors
Stressors activate the nervous system and specific hormones.
When you perceive something

9. Your Body’s Response to Stressors
The stress response involves three stages.
Alarm
If exposure to a stressor continues, your body adapts and reacts to the stressor. This stage lasts for a brief period.
Fatigue

10. Your Body’s Response to Stressors
Alarm begins when the hypothalamus, a small area at the base of the brain, receives danger signals from other parts of the brain.

11. Your Body’s Response to Stressors
The pituitary gland

12. Your Body’s Response to Stressors
The adrenal glands secrete adrenaline.

13. Your Body’s Response to Stressors

14. Stress and Your Health
Ongoing stress affects all aspects of your health.
The physical changes

15. Prolonged stress can lead to a psychosomatic response.
Stress and Your Health
Prolonged stress can lead to a psychosomatic response.
Psychosomatic response

16. The Physical Effects of Stress
Stress and Your Health
The Physical Effects of Stress
Headache
High blood pressure

17. Mental/Emotional and Social Effects of Stress
Stress and Your Health
Mental/Emotional and Social Effects of Stress
Difficulty concentrating
Irritability
Mood swings

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the word perception.

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are three cognitive stressors for teens?

20. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify the two body systems involved in the stress response.