PERSONAL MANAGEMENT STRESS MANAGEMENT 1 Understanding why stress
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PERSONAL MANAGEMENT – STRESS MANAGEMENT 1. Understanding why stress management is important 2. Applying strategies for handling negative stress 3. Jim’s Story
Stress Management • Stress can help spur you on to do your best, but too much stress can interfere with your ability to do good work. Stress can even make you sick. So stress management is an important skill to develop!
Strategies for Handling Negative Stress • Schedule your important activities. That way you know you are doing the most important things, even if you aren’t getting everything done. • Use a planner. It’ll help you control your time. • Talk with parents, guardians, or other responsible adults for support. That’s what they’re there for! • Have a support network of friends. That’s what they’re there for, too!
Strategies for Handling Negative Stress • Keep a journal to help organize your thoughts and feelings. If you can write your private thoughts on paper, they might not feel so stressful. • Listen to music that makes you feel good. We all have different tastes. Find music that works for you. • Participate in physical activity. The benefits are huge: you reduce the physical effects of stress, think about something else, enjoy another aspect of life, etc. • Use breathing techniques, yoga, visualisation and/or meditation to help you relax. Deep and regular breathing can help!
Strategies for Handling Negative Stress • Eat a healthy diet. A bad diet increases stress and can make you sick. • Get plenty of rest and sleep. Nothing is more basic than this! If you’re not getting enough rest, everything else seems worse. • Use responsible decision-making skills. What decisions do you need to make? How can you demonstrate responsibility for those decisions?
Strategies for Handling Negative Stress – To do! • In a paragraph…outline for me a stressful situation you were in recently (be sure to explain why it was stressful to you!) and the strategies that you used to deal with that situation. Be sure to include the outcome of that situation. Be detailed! • In a second paragraph…explain how you would like to deal with a stressful situation in the future. What strategies will you adopt to deal with the stress and why? Why do you think that this approach will allow you to be successful? Be detailed! • Mark scheme: • /5 thinking (why you were stressed, outcome, etc. ) • /5 application (what strategies did you use and why were they effective? what strategies would you use in the future and why? ) • /5 communication (spelling and grammar, do your paragraphs make sense? )
Jim’s Story • Get the handout for Jim’s story from Ms. Thompson. • Read Jim’s story. • Use a highlighter (or coloured pencil) to identify what you think are the key pieces of information in the story. • Answer the questions following the story. • Be prepared to discuss key information and the questions near the end of the class.
