1. Managing Stress How should you start dealing with stress?
To manage stress, identify your stressors. You then have a better chance of controlling them.

2. Lesson Objectives In this lesson, you’ll learn to:
Identify personal causes of stress.
Demonstrate refusal strategies for avoiding some stressful situations.
Develop strategies for managing stress.
Examine how healthful behaviors help reduce stress.

3. Identifying Personal Causes of Stress
The first step in stress management is to
identify the causes of stress:
Life events
Physical stressors
Daily hassles

4. Avoiding Stress with Refusal Strategies
Using Refusal Skills to Avoid Stress
Demonstrating refusal strategies helps you avoid stressful
situations.
Walk away from a tense situation.
Say no when you see the possibility of stress, conflict, or threat.

5. Ways to Manage Stress Stress-Management Techniques Plan ahead.
Get enough sleep.
Engage in regular physical activity.
Eat nutritious food.
Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

6. Ways to Manage Stress Plan Ahead
A well-thought-out plan is a flexible map that
shows many ways of reaching your goal.
When you plan ahead:
You decide in advance what you want to accomplish and what steps you’ll take.
You recognize where variations to your plan may occur.
It better prepares you for unexpected changes.

7. Ways to Manage Stress Get Adequate Sleep
Manage your time wisely so that you get enough rest each night.
This will help you:
Be in a better mood.
Think more clearly.
Look and feel better.
Improve your chances of success.

8. Ways to Manage Stress Get Regular Physical Activity
When you are under stress, your body has an excess of nervous energy.
Engaging in physical activities can release this pent-up energy.

9. Ways to Manage Stress Eat Nutritious Food
Balanced nutrition is important for overall health.
Poor eating habits cause fatigue, weakness, and a reduced ability to concentrate.
Inappropriate dieting and over- or undereating can also put the body under additional stress.
Too much stress can cause poor absorption of vitamins and minerals, which can lead to deficiencies.
Eat a variety of different foods, drink plenty of water, and eat fresh food whenever possible.

10. Ways to Manage Stress Nutrition Tips for Dealing with Stress
Eat regular meals.
Limit “comfort” foods.
Limit caffeine.

11. Ways to Manage Stress Avoid Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs does not relieve stress.
Substance use makes the body more prone to diseases and has dangerous long-term effects.

12. Stress-Management Techniques
Managing Stress
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.

13. Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. The relaxation response can be reached by using techniques such as _____.
seeking out support
deep breathing
keeping a positive outlook
redirecting energy

14. Quick Review - Answer
A. The relaxation response can be reached by using techniques such as deep breathing.
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15. Q. List three personal causes of stress.
Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. List three personal causes of stress.
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16. A. Three personal causes of stress are:
Quick Review - Answer
A. Three personal causes of stress are:
Life events
Physical stressors
Daily hassles
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17. Q. Name three ways to protect yourself from stress.
Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. Name three ways to protect yourself from stress.
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18. A. To avoid stress you need to do the following:
Quick Review - Answer
A. To avoid stress you need to do the following:
Plan ahead.
Get enough sleep.
Engage in regular physical activity.
Eat nutritious food.
Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
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19. Quick Review Evaluate the possible techniques.
Jarod has a big biology test on Friday. As he is heading to his room to study, his friend Ben calls and asks him to go bowling. Use the techniques discussed in this lesson to help Jarod balance his activities and manage his stress.

20. Stress-Management Techniques
Managing Stress
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
Stress-management skills are skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthful, effective way.
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.

21. Stress-Management Techniques
Managing Stress
Managing Stress
Developing and practicing stress-management skills is one of the steps to good mental health.
Redirect your energy.
Relax and laugh.
The relaxation response is a state of calm that can be reached if one or more relaxation techniques are practiced regularly.
Keep a positive outlook.
Seek out support.

22. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! The relaxation response can be reached by using techniques such as deep breathing.
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23. Quick Review - Answer
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