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Understanding Stress: Body and Mind Responses, Management, and Resilience

Stress is the body and mind's reaction to challenges. Learn about stressors, physical and mental effects, stress management strategies, and building resilience. Reduce stress by accepting life uncertainties.

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Understanding Stress: Body and Mind Responses, Management, and Resilience

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  1. Stress The reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands.

  2. Stressor • Anything that causes stress • Vary among individuals and groups • People, objects, places, events, and situations are all potential stressors.

  3. Stressors • Activate the nervous system and specifics hormones. • When you perceive something to be dangerous, difficult, or painful, your body automatically begins a stress response.

  4. Reacting to Stress

  5. Your body’s Response to Stressors

  6. Your Body’s Response to Stressors

  7. Physical: • Dilated pupils • Increase in perspiration • Faster heart rate and pulse • Rise in blood pressure • Narrowing of arteries to organs and skin • Increase blood flow to muscles and brain • Increase in muscle tension

  8. Physical Effects of Stress • Headache • A weakened immune system • High blood pressure • Bruxism, clenching the jaw or grinding the teeth • Digestive disorders

  9. Mental/Emotional and Social Effects • Difficulty concentrating • Irritability • Mood swings

  10. Managing Stress Is to learn strategies to keep stress from building up and to deal with individual stressors effectively.

  11. Chronic Stress Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person’s control.

  12. Avoiding and Limiting Stress • Plan ahead • Use refusal skills • Think positively • Avoid tobacco, alcohol and other drugs

  13. Handling Stress and Reducing it’s Effects.

  14. Stay Healthy and Building Resiliency • Adequate sleep (8-9 hours) • Use time-management skills • Get regular physical activity • Eat nutritious foods

  15. Assets for Building Resiliency • Support-having family, friends, and others to help you • Empowerment-feeling as if you are a valuable member of your community and family • Boundaries-having a clear set of rules and consequences for school, family, and relationships. • Productive Use of Time-choosingcreative and productive activities

  16. Assets continued • Commitment to Learning-understanding the value of schoolwork. • Positive Values-having values that include caring, integrity, honesty, self-responsibility, equality, and justice • Social Skills-communicating effectively, respecting others, and avoiding peer pressure. • Positive Identity-having high self-esteem, a sense of control, and feeling ofpurpose

  17. Reduce Stress by Accepting the Six Things in Life you Can’t Change • Life is not always fair. • Some people will never like you. • You can’t change people. • Life is a constant struggle. • Things are bound to change. • Getting older is inevitable.

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