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mental stress slides

1. Stress and Health

2. Stress : the term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. Distress : the effect of unpleasant and undesirable stressors Eustress : the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being Stressors : events that cause a stress reaction.

3. Types of Stressor Environmental Psychological

4. Environmental Stressors Catastrophe : an unpredictable, large-scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as over whelming feelings of threat. Hassles : the daily annoyances of everyday life

5. Psychological Stressors

6. Psychological Stressors (cont.)

7. Symptoms & effect of stress  Stress symptoms can affect your body, your thoughts and feelings, and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can help you manage them. Stress that's left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

8. Symptoms & effect of stress (cont.)

9. Coping with Stress Coping strategies: actions that people can take to master, tolerate, reduce, or minimize the effects of stressors. Problem-focused coping: coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions Emotion-focused coping : coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction to the stressor

10. Meditation: It is a series of mental exercises meant to refocus attention and achieve a state of consciousness. Meditation can produce a state of relaxation that can aid in coping with the physiological reactions to a stressful situation. Coping with stress (Cont.)

11. Thank You Any Questions