Understanding Stress
The reaction of the mind/body to everyday challeges/demands.
Stress
Using refusal skills, planning ahead, & practicing relaxation techniques are examples of what skills?
Stress-Management
Physical activity helps reduce stress in all of the following ways except: Clearing your head, increasing your energy, helps you sleep better, helps you avoid stress
Helps avoid stress - it does not help avoid stress!
Moving or changing schools would be an example of which category: Life Situations, Environmental, Biological, Cognitive, Personal Behavior
Life Situation
Identify 2 physical symptoms of chronic stress.
Headache, upset stomach, muscle aches, clenching of the jaw
Anything that causes stress.
Stressor
You are said to be this if you can adapt effectively and recover from difficulty, disappointment, or crisis.
Resilient
The acceptance of a loss refers to:
Closure
What does the word cognitive refer to?
Thinking
Stress associated with long-term problems that impact your ability to cope refers to what kind of stress?
Chronic Stress
The amount of stress that you experience, positively or negatively, relates directly to this (how we view something)
Perception
Practicing stress management techniques can help you achieve a state of calm, or this response.
Relaxation Response
Mourning
Describe how you can help someone who is grieving.
Answers will vary
The needed outcome of grieving is to achieve
Closure
During which stage (Resistance, Alarm, Fatigue, Recovery) of the stress repsonse are hormones released?
Alarm
Eating comfort food
A stressful event that overwhelms your coping abilities.
Traumatic event
What stage of grief do people make a promise to change if what was lost can be returned or replaced?
Bargaining
Which is not an example of redirecting your energy that could build up as a result of stress: taking a walk, watching TV, riding your bike, working on creative projects
Watching TV
Decreased blood flow
What kind of skills should you use to prevent taking on an activity that might add to your stress level? Hint: saying no
Refusal skills
Which is not a stage of grief: Remorse, empathy, accpetance, denial
Empathy
What can you do to help someone cope with a traumatic event?
Answers will vary
What does someone have to do (specifically with their feelings) for true healing to occur?