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Managing Stress

2. LESSON 2 Managing Stress
You can manage stress by learning skills to reduce the amount and impact of stress in your life.
BIG IDEA
New Vocabulary
chronic stress
relaxation response
stress-management skills
resilient
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3. When Stress Becomes a Problem
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When Stress Becomes a Problem
Main Idea
Identifying what is stressful is the first step in learning how to manage stress.
The trick for managing stress is to learn strategies to keep stress from building up and to deal with individual stressors effectively.
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4. When Stress Becomes a Problem
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When Stress Becomes a Problem
The effects of stress are additive, meaning they build up over time. An increased number of teens are experiencing chronic stress.
New Vocabulary
Chronic stress
Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond the person’s control.
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5. Stress-Management Techniques
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Stress-Management Techniques
Main Idea
You can develop strategies to both avoid and reduce your stress.
Stress-management skills help you manage stressors in a healthful, effective way.
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6. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
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Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Avoid situations that cause stress is the easiest way to reduce its effects.
If you are unable to avoid a stressor, try to restrict or limit the amount of stress that you are exposed to.
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7. Avoiding and Limiting Stress
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Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Strategies for Avoiding and Limiting Stress
If taking on a new activity will add to your stress, use refusal skills to say no.
Use refusal skills
Manage your time wisely by planning ahead. Think about how stressed you feel before a test.
Plan ahead
A positive outlook limits stress by shifting your perception and how you respond to the stressor.
Think positively
Using tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs will harm the body and cause more stress.
Fatigue
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8. Overcoming Test Anxiety
LESSON 2 Managing Stress
Avoiding and Limiting Stress
Overcoming Test Anxiety
Plan for tests well in advance, studying a little each night.
Learn to outline material, highlighting and numbering important points to learn them quickly.
During a test, use deep breathing. Sit comfortably in your chair and use positive self-talk such as, “I can do this.”
Answer all the questions you are sure of, then go back and answer the ones that are more difficult.
After getting your corrected test, examine your mistakes. If you don’t understand the correction, ask the teacher.
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9. Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
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Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
For stressors that are unavoidable, practice stress reduction techniques to achieve a relaxation response.
New Vocabulary
relaxation response
A state of calm.
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10. Practice relaxation techniques
LESSON 2 Managing Stress
Handling Stress and Reducing Its Effects
To lower the impact of stress on your health, try these tips.
Practice relaxation techniques
Deep breathing, thinking pleasant thoughts, stretching, taking a warm bath, and even laughing can relieve stress.
Redirect
your energy
When energy builds because of stress, use that energy in a constructive way. Get physically active.
Seek support
Confide in someone you trust for an objective view and valuable advice.
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11. Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
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Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
Main Idea
Taking care of your health is essential to stress management.
Positive health-maintenance habits help you deal with stress, prevent stress, reduce stress, and recover from stress.
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12. LESSON 2 Managing Stress
Get Adequate Rest
Adequate sleep can help you face the challenges and demands of the next day.
Using time-management skills will allow you to get the eight to nine hours of sleep you need each night.
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13. Get Regular Physical Activity
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Get Regular Physical Activity
Participating in regular physical activity benefits your overall health.
Physical activity can release pent-up energy, clear your mind, increase your energy level and your endurance, and help you sleep better.
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14. LESSON 2 Managing Stress
Eat Nutritious Foods
Eating a variety of healthful foods and drinking plenty of water not only helps your body function properly, but it also reduces the effects of stress.
Poor eating habits can contribute to stress, causing weakness, fatigue, and a reduced ability to concentrate.
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15. Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
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Staying Healthy and Building Resiliency
By including self-maintenance and stress-management strategies in your daily routine, you can become more resilient.
Resiliency helps you handle difficulties and challenges in healthful ways and achieve long-term success in spite of negative circumstances.
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16. After You Read What is chronic stress?
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After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is chronic stress?
Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person’s control.
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17. After You Read Identify four strategies to avoid or limit stress.
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After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify four strategies to avoid or
limit stress.
Use refusal skills; plan ahead; think positively; avoid tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
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18. After You Read Identify three relaxation techniques.
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After You Read
Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify three relaxation techniques.
Any three: Deep breathing, thinking pleasant thoughts, stretching, taking a warm bath, getting a massage, laughing, engaging in a creative hobby.
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