1. Chapter 4 Lessons1,2,3 Managing Stress & Coping with Loss
Manage Stress
Coping with Loss and Grief
Resiliency

2. Stressor – what causes the stress
Stress- is the reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands
Stressor – what causes the stress
How does your perception (becoming aware through senses)
effect how much stress may affect you?

3. STRESSORS Alcoholism Separated Parents Verbal Abuse Low Self Esteem
How can stress be bad?
Watch 3 minute video
Alcoholism
Separated Parents
Verbal Abuse
Low Self Esteem
Trouble is school
Eating Disorder
Suicidal thoughts
Negative peer pressure

4. Do Now
Take worksheet off my desk and begin to take Stress Quiz

5. Recognize stressor handout

7. Body’s Stress Response
3 Stages
1)Alarm stage– body is
prepared quick action (fight or flight)
Adrenaline released (hormone released)
HR & Blood Pressure increase
Digestion slows
Muscles contract
Hearing and vision

8. Body attempts to regain internal balance Adrenaline stops
Resistance stage –
Body attempts to regain internal balance
Adrenaline stops
Body returns to normal
Fatigue stage- body stays in alarm stage for long periods of time
Risk of injury, illness, & death
Quick Stress Relief
Let's try breathing

9. GOOD STESS OR BAD STRESS
Moving to new state starting school
Going out on a first date
Presenting a seminar in front of class
Meeting you boyfriend/girlfriend’s parents
Finding out you (or partner) is pregnant
Worried about taking a test

10. How Stress Affects Your Health
Psychosomatic response- physical symptoms brought on by stress
PHYSICAL
Headaches
Stomach problems
High blood pressure
Weak immune system
Dizziness, general aches and pains, grinding teeth, clenched jaws, headaches, indigestion, muscle tension, difficulty sleeping, racing heart, ringing in the ears, stooped posture, sweaty palms, tiredness, exhaustion, trembling, weight gain or loss, upset stomach

11. How Stress Affects Your Health
Constant worry, difficulty making decisions, forgetfulness, inability to concentrate, lack of creativity, poor memory
Anger, anxiety, depression, feeling powerless, frequent irritability, loneliness, negative thinking, nervousness, sadness
EMOTIONAL/SOCIAL
Concentration
Mood swings
Crying/Frustration

12. How do you handle stress?
Chronic Stress – Stress associated with long term problems that are beyond a persons control

13. Stress Management Skills - Manage stress in healthful effective way
AVOIDING & LIMITING STRESS
Refusal skills – say no to things that add to your stress
Plan Ahead
Think Positively

14. Stress Management Skills
Handling Stress and Reducing its Effects
4) Relaxation Response – breathing, stretching, warm bath, massage
5) Redirect Energy – jog, creative project, swim
6) Seek Support
Let's try breathing
Relaxation response – state calm
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Get comfortable
Tighten muscles in toes, hold for a count of 10, relax
Flex muscles in your feet, hold 10, relax, shoulders, arms neck, and face
Move slowly up body, tensing and relaxing, legs, abdomen,

15. Stress Management Skills
STAYING HEALTHY & BUILDING RESILIENCY 7) Sleep 8) Regular Exercise 9) Eat Nutritious Foods - Avoid caffeine
Resilient – bouncing back from difficult times successfully

16. Stressors and being Resilient
Hayward’s Heart
Bigler’s Way

17. Summarizer
Analyze the stressors you have in your life and pick three (can use the back of the worksheet from the other day). Create 3 ways to help you manage those stressors.

18. Do Now
Have you ever experienced any type of loss in your life? What were some feelings and thoughts that you had when it happened?

19. WHAT IS LOSS?
Loss can be losing someone we love because they die or other events :
Breaking up
Not getting into the college of your dreams
Friend moving away
Having something you care for destroyed
Not winning a competition

20. Death & Grief
Coping- dealing successfully with difficult changes in your life
“However mean your life is,
meet it and live it.”
- Henry David Thoreau

21. Stages of Grief

22. Mourning – act of showing sorrow or grief COPE WITH DEATH HAPPY VIDEO
Help Others Mourn
Acknowledge the loss & ask how feel
Listen, Express Concern,
Offer Help, Be genuine
Last Lecture
Grief/PTSD
DON’T IGNORE THEIR LOSS & ACT LIKE IT DID NOT HAPPEN
Do you want to get together & talk?
My favorite memory of your loved one is…
It must be hard for you right now
I am sorry about your loss
Is there anything I could do to help you through this
I don’t know how you feel, but I am here to help in anyway I can.
Kid in Green Cleats

23. ANGER
ACCEPTANCE
BARGAINING

24. DENIAL
DEPRESSION