Definitions
Mental, emotional, or physical strain or tension.
What is Stress?
-Take good care of yourself
-Prepare for anticipated/unanticipated changes
-Build safety zones
-See the long-term perspective
-Be flexible
What are Examples of Coping Stategies?
An adult in an position to educate others.
People who don't endure stress.
Who is Nobody?
Running, jumping, swimming, playing sports, lifting weights, ect.
What is exercise?
A state of intense apprehension or worry often accompanied by physical symptoms such as shaking, intense feelings in the gut, etc, common in mental illness or after a very distressing experience.
What is Anxiety?
5 things you can see,
4 things you can touch,
3 things you can hear,
2 things you can smell,
1 thing you can taste.
What is the Anxiety Grounding Technique?
Books that assist someone in completing a task.
What are Self-Help Books?
-Customary, anticipated life events
-Unexpected life events
-Progressive accumulating events
-Personal trait stress
What are the four major sources of stress?
Activity where one peruses material for entertainment.
What is Reading?
A feeling of great annoyance or antagonism as the result of some real or supposed grievance; rage; wrath.
What is Anger?
A technique where an individual seeks to achieve a relaxed state by reflecting or engaging in quiet contemplation.
What is meditation?
Peer group from school, religious, or other circumstances with whom you associate and choose to spend your time.
What are Friends?
-Irritability and general distrust of others' intentions
-Lack of energy--physical and/or emotional
-Feelings of isolation and lack of personal support
-Urge to get out of present school/work situation
-Attempts to feel good about self by focusing on 'how much' you do
What are symptoms of burnout?
Documenting feelings or the days events.
What is Journaling?
The act of attending to one’s physical or mental health, generally without medical or other professional consultation.
What is Self-Care?
Focus on each body part while taking deep, slow in-breaths then releasing them. Paying attention to sensations in your feet, ankles, calves, shins, knees, thighs, hips, belly, arms, shoulders, throat, face, and head. Noticing what you are feeling as you move your attention along the parts of your body.
What is the Body Scan Technique?
Meeting with a trained individual with the purpose of speaking openly about your life and solving your problems.
What is Therapy?
-Start on Situation
-Start on Self
-Search Out Support
What are SOS Strategies for Stress?
Taking time to put things in their rightful places.
A technique in which one focuses one's full attention only on the present, experiencing thoughts, feelings, and sensations but not judging them.
What is Mindfulness?
Alter it,
Avoid it,
Accept it by:
-building resistance or
-changing perception
What are the AAAbc's of Stress?
Adults within your household that provide for your well-being, and other people in your home with whom you share a bond, usually biologically.
What is Family?
Appetite change, headaches, anxiety, depression, emptiness, loss of direction, forgetfulness, low productivity, loneliness, fewer contacts with friends.
What are Stress Exhaustion Symptoms?
Expressing yourself in a medium you feel comfortable with.
What is creating art? (Painting, drawing, pottery, etc.)