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Vocabulary. Balance The ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while moving or staying still. Discrimination: An act based on prejudice (Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience). 8 th Grade Mental and Emotional Health: Create Positive Stress Management Strategies.

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  1. Vocabulary Balance • The ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while moving or staying still. Discrimination: • An act based on prejudice (Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience).

  2. 8th GradeMental and Emotional Health:Create Positive Stress Management Strategies Objectives 1.1, 1.2, & 1.3

  3. Objective 1.1 • Evaluate stress management strategies based on personal experience.

  4. Positive Stress Management Techniques • Brainstorm a list of health stress management techniques you are familiar with.

  5. Steps for Self Reflection • How do I feel? How did I feel earlier in the day, yesterday and the week before? • Why do I feel this way? • Why did I act in a certain way? What prompted me to act like that? • What does this tell me about myself? What can I learn from this situation? • If I am in this situation again, what would I do the same and what would I do differently?

  6. Objective 1.2 • Design a plan to prevent stressors or manage effects of stress.

  7. Time Management • Time management refers to a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goals. • Or…. • What will I do and how will I do it?

  8. Why learn time management? • Poor time management = stress • Common Road blocks: • The idea that time is adjustable rather than fixed • Idea that time management techniques don’t work • Crisis management rather than time management.

  9. Time Sinks • The things that take up more time than you anticipate and get you behind schedule. • What are some common ‘Time Sinks’ that you deal with?

  10. Objective 1.3 • Design effective methods to deal with anxiety.

  11. Two Sides of Anxiety • Anxiety itself is neither helpful nor hurtful. It’s your response to anxiety that is helpful or hurtful.

  12. Two Sides of Anxiety • In the right amounts, the hormones that drive anxiety can be powerful stimulants, arousing the senses to function to their sharpest.

  13. How Anxiety Affects the Body and Brain • Immune System • Breathing • Cognition • Digestion • Skin • Metabolism • Pain • Heart • Emotion

  14. Definition of Anxiety • An emotional state in which people feel uneasy, apprehensive, or fearful. People usually experience anxiety about events they cannot control or predict, or about events that seem threatening or dangerous. There is a feeling of vulnerability, and severe anxiety can persist and become disabling.

  15. Effective Coping • Change negative thought to positive: • “I can’t handle this.” • Becomes • “I can do this.”

  16. Effective Coping • See the humor in a stressful situation. • Fake it till you make it. Pretend to have more confidence that you do. No one else will know the difference.

  17. Effective Coping • Take care of yourself: • Eat nutrient-dense foods • Exercise • Avoid alcohol, tobacco, drugs • Practice good hygiene • Get adequate sleep.

  18. Effective Coping • Rely on your support system: • Parents, family • Friends • Teachers • Counselors • Faith leader

  19. Effective Coping • Stick to your routine: • Keep a planner and “to do” list. • Take one step at a time. • Check off tasks as completed.

  20. Effective Coping • Just Do It? • Take one step at a time.

  21. Vocabulary • Empathy – Identification with and understanding another’s situation, feelings or motives. • Stereotype – A person, group, event, or issue considered to conform to an unvarying pattern or manner lacking any individuality. Stereotypes limit expression and may be based on bias.

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