Lesson 1
Long-Term Stress
Chronic
Skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthful way.
Stress-Management
Prolonged feelings of helplessness.
Depression
These factors include your family, school and peers.
External factors
What category of stressors include poverty, pollution, crowding, noise or natural disasters?
This is a physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness.
Psychosomatic Response
What is one nutrition tip that will help you when dealing with stress?
Eat regular meals, limit comfort foods & limit caffeine
Name two symptoms of anxiety.
Ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty or crisis.
Resiliency
Tiredness brought on by overworking the body's defense in fighting disease.
What is the first stage of the stress response?
Alarm
Using techniques such as laughing and deep breathing exercises can cause a _______ _______.
Relaxation Response
Response to a stressful event.
Reactive Depression
How do protective factors help a person avoid risk behaviors?
They can reduce the harmful effects of influence a person to respond in a healthy way.
The physical effects of stress include headaches, asthma, high blood pressure, weakened immune system and can lead to a _________ _________.
Psychosomatic Response
The act of becoming aware through the senses.
Perception
A personal cause of stress that includes time pressures, too many responsibilities.
Daily Hassles
List two strategies for managing day to day anxieties.
Redirect energy, do relaxation exercises, engage in physical exercise and get support from friends/family.
Attitude and perception are examples that you can control. What time of influence in this?
Internal
A condition that shields a person from the negative consequences of exposure to risk.
Protective Factors
The general category of stressors that includes illnesses,
Biological
Refusal Skills
This may result from a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Major Depression
Two things you can do to build your protective factors and strengthen your resiliency.
Become involved in school activities, make a commitment to learning, stand up for yourself, stay true to values, be honest with yourself, resist negative pressures, learn about other cultures, develop a sense of purpose, develop a positive outlook.
Redirecting your energy, keeping a positive outlook and seeking out support are examples of _________ __________ ___________.
Stress Management Skills