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Defining and Recognizing Stress

Defining and Recognizing Stress. Take out a piece of paper and write your responses to these situations. 1. You just arrived home from school to discover that your family is moving to Australia. . What is your reaction? How do you feel? What do you say or do?.

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Defining and Recognizing Stress

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  1. Defining and Recognizing Stress

  2. Take out a piece of paper and write your responses to these situations.

  3. 1. You just arrived home from school to discover that your family is moving to Australia. What is your reaction? How do you feel? What do you say or do?

  4. 2. You study hard for a test and you end up getting a C. What is your reaction? How do you feel? What do you say or do?

  5. 3. You come home from school. Your parents tell you they are getting a divorce. What is your reaction? How do you feel? What do you say or do?

  6. Summarize • Some of you may have had a positive response to these situations. Others may have had a negative response. • What you are reacting to is change. • Humans Experience change from the moment of birth until the moment of death. • We are constantly adjusting to physical or emotional changes in life. • These changes are known as stressors.

  7. Skills for Developing Good Emotional Health: • Communicating emotions appropriately • Developing healthy, supportive relationships with peers and adults • Knowing how to cope with stressful situations • Setting short-term and long-term goals and taking action to achieve them • Advocating for health and helping others

  8. Explain • To build good emotional health you need to learn how to cope with stress. • Stressors are any changes we experience in life. • They can be positive change such as getting an A on a test or negative change such as getting an F.

  9. Explain • Although you may not have control over the changes you experience, you always have control over how you choose to respond to these changes. • Your responses can be positive or negative.

  10. Take out your “Stressors and Responses” Worksheet • Follow the directions and complete the worksheet. • Be prepared to share your answers.

  11. Ask and Discuss • Why do you think it’s important to respond to stressors in a positive manner?

  12. Summarize • Responding positively can help you maintain good emotional health. • Responding negatively can hurt your emotional health.

  13. Turn to your “Changes in My Life” worksheet • Take a moment to reflect on the past year and check off any changes you may have experienced.

  14. Continual or ongoing change can be stressful. To maintain good emotional health, you must develop strategies to successfully manage the stress changes can bring.

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