School Stress
The most common way middle school students get stressed
What are Tests?
How many hours of sleep do you need each night in order to get less stressed?
What is at least 8 hours?
How can stress be good?
What is motivates you to get an assignment done?
Overeating/Not eating enough, sleep problems, Making bad choices, rushing, and isolating yourself.
What are behavioral changes during stress?
Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion
What are the three stages of stress?
The things we have no time for at home
What is homework?
Name three positive ways to relieve stress
What is deep breathing, yoga, and exercising?
What are the correct terms for good and bad stress?
Eustress is good and healthy stress. Distress is bad or unhealthy stress.
Being angry, irritable, impatient, crying and nervous
What are some emotional changes during stress?
Alarm stage of stress
What happens to your body (faster heart rate, muscle tension, fast breathing, narrowed attention with focus on the stessor)
Something to use to remember when assignments and projects are due
What is a day planner or calendar
Exercising when I am upset.
What is one way to reduce my stress?
Long Term stress
What is a consistent sense of feeling pressured and overwhelmed over a long period of time.
Name three signs of stress overload
What is sleeping problems, depression, and anxiety?
Resistance stage
When your body uses up a lot of energy so you become tired, irritable, and less able to handle added stress.
Completing and turning in assignments when they are due
What is time management
A simple technique of writing down two or three items each day that go right
What is journaling
The bodies response to a demand or pressure.
What is stress?
This leaves a person feeling depleted and overwhelmed, it weakens the body's immune system and causes other problems
What is long-term stress?
Exhaustion stage
When your body can't keep up. Physical and emotional resources are used up. This stage occurs when a stressor lasts for weeks, months, or even years.
When you absolutely can't pick sides and feel awful about the mean things being said
What are friends fighting?
This is a powerful technique to teach your body to undo chronic stress reactions: you learn to let go of your thoughts to be in the present moment
What is a stressor?
An event or situation that causes stress
Identify two important ways to take care of your body when under stress
What is eat well, exercise, get enough sleep, talk to a counselor or friend.
Fitting in, friends, teachers, parents...
What are the worst stressors in middle school?