STRESS MANAGEMENT

COMMON CAUSES (STRESSORS)

• Personal behavior
• Life situations
• Environmental
• Biological
• Cognitive(thinking)

LIFE SITUATIONS

• School demands
• Problems with friends, bullying
• Peer pressure
• Family problems
• Moving

ENVITONMENTAL

• Unsafe environment
• Natural disasters
• Media

BIOLOGICAL

• Changes
• Illness
• Injury
• Disabilities

COGNATIVE

• Poor self-esteem
• Personal health
• Not fitting in

PERSONAL BEHAVIOR

• Taking in a busy schedule
• Relationship issues
• Smoking
• Using alcohol or other drugs

BODYS REASPONCE

• Nervous system and endocrine are both active
• Alarm(mind and body go on high alert)
• Resistance(stress continues:body adapts and reacts to stressor
• Fatigue(body loses ability to adapt)
• Psychosomatic response

HOW TO LIMIT STRESS

• Use refusal skills
• Plan ahead
• Think positively
• Avoid tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs

HOW TO HANDLE AND REDUCE THE EFFECTS

• Practicing relaxation techniques
• Redirect your energy
• Seek support