Chapter 4 Lessons1,2,3

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Chapter 4Lessons1,2,3

• Managing Stress Coping with Loss
• Manage Stress
• Coping with Loss and Grief
• Resiliency

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• 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?

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STRESSORS
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

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Do Now

• Take worksheet off my desk and begin to take
  Stress Quiz

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Recognize stressor handout
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Bodys 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

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• 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
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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/girlfriends parents
• Finding out you (or partner) is pregnant
• Worried about taking a test

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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
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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

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• How do you handle stress?

Chronic Stress Stress associated with long term
problems that are beyond a persons control
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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

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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,

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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
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Stressors and being Resilient

• Haywards Heart
• Biglers Way

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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.

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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?

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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

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Death Grief

• Coping- dealing successfully with difficult
  changes in your life

However mean your life is, meet it and live
it. - Henry David Thoreau
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• Stages of Grief

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• 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
DONT 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 dont know how you feel, but I am here to help
in anyway I can.
Kid in Green Cleats
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ANGER
ACCEPTANCE
BARGAINING
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DENIAL
DEPRESSION