managing stress and coping with loss chapter 4: sec 1 stress and your health
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Managing Stress and Coping with Loss
Chapter 4: Sec 1
Stress and Your Health
Objectives Describe five different causes of stress.
Describe the body’s physical response to stress.
Differentiate between positive and negative stress.
Describe how stress can make you sick.
What Causes *Stress?
STRESS
The body’s and mind’s response to a demand.
Type of Stressors
A STRESSOR is any situation that puts a demand on the body or mind.
Environmental Stressors
Conditions or events in our physical surroundings
Natural disasters Noise Crowds Pollution Poverty
Biological Stressors
Conditions that make it difficult for your body to take part in daily activities
Illness Injury Disability
Thinking Stressor
Mental challenge Taking a test
Behavioral Stressor
Unhealthy behaviors Smoking Not getting enough sleep or exercise Using drugs
Life change Stressors
Any major life change Divorce Death of a loved one Getting married Having trouble with a teacher Having more arguments with parents
Research HighlightProcrastination, Performance, and Health
Researchers found that the procrastinators suffered significantly more stress and had more health problems than non procrastinators.
Space out your studying and try to complete your assignments as early as possible. Procrastination can be hazardous to your health, as well as your grades.
Source: Huffman, K. Vernoy, M., and Vernoy, J. (2002). Psychology in Action (5th Ed.). Davers: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
*Physical Response to Stress The physical changes that prepare your body to respond quickly and
appropriately to stressors is called the fight-or-flight response.
Past vs. Present: the fight-or-flight response might even be maladaptive at times. Today, we are taught not to fight or flee but to stay calm and resolve stressful situations rationally.
Your body provides energy, reflexes, and strength to respond to a stressor.
Your body releases epinephrine hormones.
Breathing speeds up, heart beats faster, muscles tense up, pupils get wider, sweating increases, digestion stops, blood pressure increases, and blood sugar increases.
Emotional and Behavioral Response to Stress
Eustress is a positive stress that energizes one and helps one reach a goal. Try to make stress positive.
Alert, focused, motivated, energized, and confident.
Distress is negative stress that can make a person sick or keep a person from reaching a goal. Nervous, forgetful, frightened, confused, and
unsure.
Stress-Related Disorders and Diseases Tension headache Cold and flu Asthma Migraine headache Backache Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) Heart disease Stroke High blood pressure Chronic fatigue Ulcer Anxiety disorder Insomnia Depression
Long-Term Stress Can Make You Sick
The general adaptation syndrome is a model that describes the relationship between stress and disease. Alarm stage
Your body and mind become alert (flight-or-fight response) Headaches, stomachaches, difficulty sleeping, and anxiety
Resistance stage (adaptation) If stress continues, your body becomes more resistant to
disease and injury than normal Exhaustion stage
Your body cannot take the resistance to the stressor any longer. You become exhausted, organs and immune system may suffer…
Closure
What do you think would be the consequences of not having a fight-or-flight response?
Is all stress bad?
What is the difference between stress and depression?
Creative Activity
Create a post card or flyer relating to the issue of coping with loss.
Group (table activity). Write all group members name of the card. Everyone should participate.
Based on new knowledge, provide words of encouragement and show your support for a person who recently experienced a loss
Be creative and have fun