Personal Development

• Stress and coping strategies

in middle and late adolescence

Joharra Marie G. Suyat

Subject Teacher

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 Stress and Mental
01 Health

Causes and Effects of

02 Stress
Table of
Contents Ways on how to Cope
03 with Stress

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 01
Stress and Mental
Health

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 STRESS
 A condition characterized by symptoms of
physical or emotional tension.
 An individual may feel when he/she is
struggling to accept changes with physical,
mental, and emotional responses.
 Stress can be positive (the excitement of
preparing for your 18th birthday) or negative
(dealing with a loss of a family member).
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 STRESSORS
 Demanding or threatening events
 Something that causes a state of strain or
tension.
 Adrenaline increases your heart rate,
elevates your blood pressure and boosts
energy supplies.
 Cortisol, the primary stress hormone,
increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream,
enhances your brain's use of glucose and
increases the availability of substances that
repair
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tissues.
 What are the situation/s
that made you
experience stress?

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 Stress as Stimulus,
Response and
Relational

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 Stress as Stimulus
 Researchers have conceptualized stress as a
demanding or threatening event or situation
(e.g., a high-stress job, overcrowding, and long
commutes to work).
 Such conceptualizations are known as Stress as
Stimulus because they characterize stress as a
stimulus that causes certain reactions.
 Stimulus-based definitions of stress are
problematic; however, they fail to recognize that
people differ in how they view and react to
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 Stress as Response
 Other researchers have conceptualized
stress in ways that emphasize the
physiological responses that occur when
faced with demanding or threatening
situations (e.g., increased arousal).

 These conceptualizations are referred to as

response-based definitions because they
describe stress as a response to
environmental conditions.
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  For example, the endocrinologist Hans Selye, a
famous stress researcher, once defined stress
as the “response of the body to any demand,
whether it is caused by, or results in, pleasant
or unpleasant conditions”
 Selye’s definition of stress is response-based
in that it conceptualizes stress chiefly in terms
of the body’s physiological reaction to any
demand that is placed on it.

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 Stress as Relational
 When a person is experiencing stress takes a step
back to look at the situation that is causing the
stress and reflect on it.
 When an individual’s resources are more than
enough to deal with the difficult situation, that
person may feel little stress.
 But, when an individual knew that resources is not
enough to meet the stressing event, that person
may feel a great deal of stress.
 Stress, then is determined by the person-
environment
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 Mental Health

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 What comes first into
your minds when you
hear “Mental Health”?

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 Mental Health
 As defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is a
condition of being sound mentally and
emotionally that is characterized by the absence
of mental illness and by adequate adjustment
especially as reflected in feeling comfortable
about oneself.

 It is also a positive feeling about others, and the

ability to meet the demands of daily life.

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 Having a good mental health means
that you are stable enough to face challenges
brought by the different daily circumstances.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of

misunderstanding and harmful attitude that
surrounds mental health.

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 Signs of depression:
1. Deep feeling of sadness
2. Feeling of worthlessness
3. Lack of appetite
4. Lack of energy
5. Inability to concentrate
6. Change in sleeping patterns

Remember that mental health is more than the

absence of mental illness. It is also a state of well-
being in which we realize our own abilities in
coping with stress, working productively and
being valuable to our community.
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Causes and Effect
of Stress

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 Causes and Effects of Stress

Stress is a simple reaction to an input that

disturbs our physical and mental balance.
It is ever present in everyone’s life in various
situations and activities. Therefore, you are not
exempted from experiencing stress.

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 The Good Stress and The Bad
Stress
EUSTRESS
 which is term for positive stress or good
stress
DISTRESS
 refers to negative stress or bad stress

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 Causes of Good Stress
Good stress is the type of stress you feel when
you are excited. Your hormones surges high, and your
pulse quickens. You feel that you are far from stress.
• being promoted in the job • passing in your
• having your first date examinations
• becomes number one in your • meeting your old closest
class or competitions friends
• receiving good • additional allowance
commendations from family, • having outdoor activities
friends, and relatives • jamming/bonding
• acquiring and possessing
new gadgets
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 Causes of Bad Stress
It happens when you feel stressors that burden you
and put you in a seemingly hopeless situation which
hinders your problem-solving capability. These stresses
may cause anxiety.
• death of family members
• losing a job
• failed to submit task on • separation of parents
time • conflict with peers
• illness/sickness • being bullied
• sleep problem • sexual abuse
• abused / neglected • traumatic experience
• bankruptcy/lack
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of • dropping out of school
 Effects of Stress
 Most young people go through situations that
cause stress. Most of the time, these stressors
pile up, affecting behavior once stress hits the
individual. Whether good or bad stress, both
may result into developing good or bad effects.

 Too much stress can affect your mood,

behavior, action, performance, and even your
relationships.

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 Some good effects of positive stress:
1. motivate individual to pursue his goal
2. create positive effect in every human endeavor
3. boost someone’s morale
4. benefit good health / create good immune system
5. increases performance
6. become more responsible
7. handle things lightly
8. enhance memory
9. drive to surpass previous achievement
10. improve decisions
11. help someone to grow more with pleasant attitude
12. has a positive views for the future
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 Some of the bad effects of negative stress:

1. Depression
2. Aggressive behavior
3. Suicidal tendency
4. Involvement in fighting or gambling
5. Taking alcohol and drugs
6. Early marriage
7. Peer pressure
8. Develop fatigue and Irritability
9. Withdrawing from people
10. Changes in sleeping and eating habit
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Coping with Stress

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 Coping
 Refers to mental and behavioral efforts that
we use to deal with problems relating to
stress, including its presumed cause and the
unpleasant feelings and emotions it
produces.
 In coping with stress, we are using all aspects
of our self to deal with both the causes of
stress and their impacts on our emotions that
can make us feel uneasy or uncomfortable.
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 Approaches in Coping with Stress

1. Avoidance Approach
 In this approach, people tend to run away from the
stress by denying the presence of stress and by
distancing from the causes of stress or stressor.
 People will tend to avoid the place, people,
situation, feeling, etc., that would remind them of
the stressful moment in their lives.
 Avoidance is usually a negative response, although
you must do it sometimes if it deemed necessary.

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 2. Acceptance-Action Approach
 In this approach, you acknowledge and accept
the fact that stress is real, and that stress has
good and bad effects to a person.
 Acknowledging and accepting the reality of
stress and its effects would lead you to take
action to feel better or to resolve stress and
have a healthy life. Dealing with stress leads
to finding better solutions.
 In this approach, adolescents are encouraged
to think of helpful and effective ways to cope
with the stress.
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 Ways on how to Cope
with Stress to Maintain
a Healthy Well-Being

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 As a Senior High School Student,
how do you deal with stress?

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 PHYSICALL
1. Do sports
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2. Simple exercise
3. Take a Bath Daily.
4. Eat Nutritious Food and Healthy foods
5. Drink a Lot of water (8-10) glasses of water a
day
6. Find, Look or Imagine a relaxing place or even a
picture
7. Take a Nap whenever you get tired of doing any
work or activities
8. Sleep at least 8 hours- good sleep will help you
regain your strength.
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 Emotionally/
Socially
1. Listen to Music
2. Do your favorite hobbies
3. Watch funny videos
4. Play relaxing games
5. Release your emotions
6. Have a positive talk to yourself
7. Learn to forgive
8. Accept mistakes and learn from it
9. Talk to professionals like doctors or counselors if
needed

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 Mentally and
Spiritually
1.Think Positive
2.Pray to God
3.Be thankful
4.Manage your Time
5.Know your Value
6.Learn to say No if needed
7.Read books/Novels/Comics, Inspirational
books, Bible etc.

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 Activity 1

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 First 5 people who type BINGO will get prize

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 First 5 people who type BINGO will get prize

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 PERFORMANCE TASK 3
How I Deal With Stress
Deadline: April 8, 2022

Make a short film identifying at least 3

stressors you face in your life right now then
demonstrate at least 3 various personal ways
(physically, emotionally and mentally) to cope with
these stressors and maintain mental health.
The duration of video must be 2-3 minutes. You can
do this by group with 5-6 members.

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 Prepare for your 3rd Summative
Assessment on Friday @ 3pm-5pm

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