Mental and Emotional Health Lesson 3: Stress Management
Name ______________________________________________________________
Starter:
Make a list of 10 things that you think most teens stress about.
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Vocabulary:
1. Stress
2. Stressor
3. Eustress
4. Distress
5. Fatigue
6. Ulcers
7. Hives
8. Stress
Response
9. Flight or Flight
10. Epinephrine
11. Stress
Management
12. Time
Management
13. Prioritize
14. Meditation
Period __________
Video #1 Angry Dog
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What is the stressor?
Video #2 Stuck on the Escalator
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What is the stressor?
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Are the people experiencing Eustress or Distress?
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How do you know?
Bad Stress Notes
1. ____________________ Disease
2. High ____________________ ____________________
3. Inability to ____________________
4. Fatigue (____________________)
5. Quick to ____________________
6. Weakened ____________________ ____________________ (get sick faster and longer)
7. ____________________
8. Ulcers
9. ____________________
10. ____________________
11. Extreme ____________________ gain or loss:
Stress Response Notes
1. ____________________ beats faster and harder
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More blood goes to the ____________________
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More blood goes to the ____________________ and ____________________
2. ____________________ speeds up
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More oxygen is needed to fuel the ____________________ and ____________________
3. ____________________ tighten
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Body gets ready to ____________________ or ____________________
4. ____________________ and ____________________ sharpen
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Your ____________________ become more alert to what is going on around you
5. ____________________ increases
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Your body tries to get ____________________ of any extra weight like ____________________
6. ____________________ is released to increase ____________________
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Is a stress ____________________ that increases the level of ____________________ in the blood to
give more energy.
Assignment #1
Draw in the solid lines shows on the screen
Assignment #1 Review
1. How did your body respond during the stress test?
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2. Were you in Distress or Eustress?
3. Did you feel different the second time around?
4. Why do you think that is?
Quick Ways to Reduce Stress
1. ____________________ your muscles and/or ____________________
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Most people ____________________ muscles when they are stressed
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____________________, shoulders, ____________________, and neck tend be the muscles that hold
stress the most
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It is important to ____________________ the muscles that hold stress and try to relax and stretch them
2. Control your ____________________
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When we become stressed our ____________________ increases
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If we slow down our breathing, our ____________________ ____________________ slows down too
3. Laugh
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Laughing increase ____________________ to the body
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The increase of oxygen helps ____________________ stress
Assignment #2
Resting Heart Rate
Exercise Heart Rate
Breathing Heart Rate
Planning Ahead to Reduce Stress
1. ____________________Management
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When we don’t ____________________ our time we cause ourselves more stress
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It is important to make sure you allow ____________________ time to complete tasks in your life
2. ____________________
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It is important to ____________________ the most ____________________ tasks in your life
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Then you should complete task in ____________________ of ____________________
Assignment #3
Things to Do
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Time
Prioritized List
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Why in this order
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Physical Ways to Reduce Stress
1. Get plenty of ____________________
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Teens need at least ____________________ to ____________________ hours of sleep per night
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Being tired, increases stress levels because the ____________________ and ____________________
are not working at top capacity
2. ____________________ / ____________________
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Exercising allows the body to ____________________ all the built up ____________________ that is
produce when stress
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When we keep all the energy produced by stress ____________________ up inside our bodies we start
to do ____________________ damage to the body
3. ____________________
Quick Check
1. ____________________ is a combination of a new or possibly threatening situation and your body’s natural
response to it.
2. A ____________________ is anything that causes stress
3. The flight-or-fight response, also known as the ____________________ ____________________, is the body’s
reaction to a stressor.
4. ____________________ is a form of negative stress and ____________________ is a form of positive stress.
5. Ways to manage stress successfully include:
A. Denying that stress exists
B. Arguing with your parents
C. Planning ahead for your important tasks
D. Eating a lot of chocolate