1. Chapter 3 Stress Management

2. Lesson 1 A Natural Part of Your Life

3. Stress Combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body’s natural response to the situation

4. Stressors Anything that causes stress

5. Distress Is the negative physical, mental, or emotional strain in response to a stressor

6. Positive Stress (eustress) A stress response that happens when winning, succeeding, and achieving

7. Stressor in Your Life Arguing with a brother or sister Getting glasses or braces Moving to a new home Getting in trouble with a teacher Making a speech in front of the class

8. Serious Stressors Being pregnant and unmarried Experiencing the death of a parent Going through parents’divorce Becoming an unmarried father Becoming involved with drugs and alcohol Experiencing the death of a brother or sister Experiencing a change in your acceptance by your peers Experiencing the death of a close friend

9. Lesson 2 How Stress Affects You

10. Stress Response Fight or flight is your body’s reaction to a stressor

11. Epinephrine Hormone that increases the stress level of sugar in your blood

12. Body’s reaction to short-term stress 1- Mouth may be dry 2- You may feel sick 3- Muscles may tighten up 4- You may feel like you have extra power 5- Vision and hearing may sharpen

13. Lasting effects of stress Physical fatigue Mental fatigue

14. Distressed Continuously 1- Difficulty sleeping or frequent headaches 2- Mental or emotional problems, or cry for no reason 3-Become bored, depressed, or frustrated 4-Feel tense, irritable, and overwhelmed 5-Trouble concentration on schoolwork and making decisions

15. Lesson 3 Defense Mechanisms

16. Defense Mechanism Is an automatic, short-term behavior to cope with distress

17. Type of Defense Mechanisms 1- Rationalization-making excuses instead of admitting mistakes 2- Displacement-shifting negative feelings about one person to another 3-repression-blocking out unpleasant memories 4-denial-ignoring reality or pretending that something doesn’t exist 5-projection-putting the blame for your problem on someone or something else.

18. Lesson 4 Managing Your Stress

19. Stress Management The ability to handle stress in healthy ways

20. Warning signs of physical stress Headaches Indigestion Muscle aches Dry Mouth Shortness of breath Fatigue Insomnia Teeth grinding Pounding heart

21. Warning signs of mental and emotional stress Nightmares Depression Anxiety Mood swings Frustration Irritability Worrying Loneliness Poor concentration

22. Reframing Changing the way you think about a stressor and changing your emotional response to the stressor

23. Managing distress Asserting yourself-Tell other people how you feel Plan ahead-Make time to do things you must do even if you don’t like to do them Laughing –is important. Make it a point to laugh every day

24. Emotions Are the feelings that are produced as you respond to something in your life Anxiety -Love Panic -Sadness Anger -Sympathy Fear -Happiness

25. Lesson 5 Preventing Distress

26. Plan Is a detailed program, created ahead of time for doing something

27. Tips for preventing Distress 8 hours of sleep Lot of fruits and vegetables Set short and long term goals that are realistic Have fun Believe that every problem has a solution Laugh every day Learn something new each day Treat others the way you want to be treated

28. Time Management Is making appropriate choices about how to use your time

29. Prioritize Arranging items in the order of their importance

30. Chapter 3 Stress Management