Stress Management Plan

11. Coping: What methods do you use to deal with stress? Have there been any prominent stressful events in your life lately?

Introduction Stress affects millions of people. One of the most common forms of stress is that related to our careers and the workplace. In today 's economic difficulty, work related stress is even more pronounced than ever before. Everyone who has ever held a job has, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. According to the American Psychological Association 's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing

As a former Army Soldier, I know that life is full of stress and stressors that can have an impact on my life. In fact, I believe as a Soldier, you can have an additional form of stress known as combat stress that can produce long term effects to your health and well-being. I retired from the Army in 2009 after deploying six times to various combat zones and dealt with other stressors that you have in the Army. I believe that I have some effects from the stress that I endured while in a combat zone. Finding ways to deal with stress without going and asking for help through meditation and relaxation exercises would be beneficial to me, so that I don’t have to turn to someone for help. Besides combat stress or related stress, I also have the stress that everyone in life endures. My top stressors are that of work in my current job, family life to include extended family, finances, continuing my education, and lastly combat stress from when I was on active duty. According to the Mayo Clinic in an article from mayoclinic.org titled Healthy Life Styles Stress Management, “Stress might be affecting your health without you even realizing it.” In this paper I will answer the questions like, what causes this stress. Is it time management? I believe what causes a lot of this stress is not having enough time in the day to do it all the things you want or need to do without causing a negative feelings or anger. In this, I

10.) There a many types of stressors that one may encounter, but among most people I believe the most common is sociological stress. Sociological stress can be one of the hardest to deal with because it is stimulated from a relationship with another person. This can cause someone to feel extremely overwhelmed and tensed because they do not know how to deal with the situation at hand. I know personally I have a hard time dealing with sociological stressors, especially when it has to do with a person close to me that I care about. I believe most people feel like they are constantly under social stress, which can cause one to feel anxiety, depression or anger throughout the day. Because we live in such a fast paced environment, many can feel sociological stressors. It can

How can the effects of stress/depression be minimized or prevented? Identify & list three stressful situations in your life and describe how you might decrease or eliminate the stressors associated with them. Identify & list three examples of eustress in your life.

QUESTION- Describe a time on any job that you held I which you were faced with problems or stresses that tested your coping skills?

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Social life expectations is also a huge stressor, people want to feel the need to be popular and pressured to fit in. Another major source of my stress is financial issues, fortunately my parents are able to provide me with necessary needs like a car, school books, food, home, clothes/shoes and money. At the point where I need be dependent on my own rather than on my parents which causes me a lot of stress. Another major source of my stress is seeing my parents hurt whether it be physically, mentally or emotionally. My parents worked so hard and became successful which inspires me and seeing them hurt stresses me out when i’m unable to do anything. My last source of my stress are certain lifestyle choices. I tend to make poor choices that affect other situations in my life in a negative way. For example, staying up late on a school night or skipping an important event to hang out with friends. Some of my internal factors are being insecure or feeling worried. Feeling insecure on how I look or even how I dress and feeling worried about others opinions or other situations. Other internal factors are being confused with what I’m doing with my life. Some external factors include, school and work. Being overloaded with work causes a huge stress on me along with not sleeping at night or having family issues.

E: Family each identified coping mechanisms. MM uses shopping and pampering, QM uses her friends and music, JM uses her children, walking and her sister to de stress, sometimes she will use food as a source and identified this as a negative in her life as she is over weight. Gave family a list of resources to contact to use as support and for financial help. Family has some good coping strategies, they have just had a pile up of stressors and are working to improve their coping as a

Throughout life stress is a common problem whether it’s at work, school or home. The many negative effects of stress in fact affect individuals differently varying from health issues to work performance. Therefore, all individuals have different views of stress and various ways of handling it or otherwise managing their stress. Stress is when any living thing feels endangered and its homeostasis is at risk (Varvogli & Darviri, 2011, p. 74). Ways of dealing with stress are efforts of cognitive, behavioral, and psychological nature that allows a person to manage stress. Although there are different causes of stress, there are also many techniques for relieving it. The following articles are intended for the reader to

I placed each of these coping strategies where they are because these are what I believe are some of the best and some of the worst coping strategies. I placed pray at the top because it is often one of the first things that I do when I am stressed. Exercising is also incredibly helpful when I am stressed. It is relaxing and allows for me to take my mind off of the stressful circumstance for a short time. This is related to getting fresh air if exercise is done outside. Socializing is also helpful. Though socializing, one could possibly find some support from another individual. Socializing Is related to expressing gratitude. The transition from good to bad takes place from number five to number six. There are much worse things than eating your stress away, but it probably isn’t the best thing to do when you are stressed out. Dwelling on the negative, isolating yourself from others and completely ignoring the problem can only make things worse. I placed drugs and alcohol as the worst because those can lead to a life of addiction. Those activities can completely ruin one’s life and are not short term.

There are many challenges that we face and have to handle every single day. And, as women, we frequently have to balance the demands of work, family, children, parents, finances, and health—to name just a few. These demands are frequently referred to as “stressors” and achieving a balance is “stressful.” But multiple demands on our time and energy are a part of everyone’s life. Stress is not how many demands you have in your life, but rather how you and your body respond to these demands. For some, racing to meet a tight deadline or complete a long “ToDo” list can be positive and energizing. It’s important to learn what stress is, at what point it becomes harmful, and options for how you can respond to it. Finding the right balance is

I will be discussing 3 specific personal strategies that I will use to improve stress and time management.

Course Material: After reviewing the stress cycle and stress management practices, I chose to implement the stressor-directed primary prevention technique. Further reflection on the situation helped me understand that my main time stressor is work overload.

Problem-focused coping is defined and describe as a person’s effort to deal with the demands of a condition, either directly or indirectly (O’Driscoll & Brough, 2006.) Problem-focused coping aims towards solving a problem or doing something to modify the source of the problem. The use of an active problem-focused coping approach foresees greater effectiveness because the use of the said coping contributes to a greater logic of control over the stressor (Clark, Bormann, Cropanzano & James, 1995). Problem-focused coping as one of the coping approaches are argued to be potentially advantageous or disadvantageous based on the scope to which they show control over the condition (Dijkstra, De Dreu, Evers & Van Dierendonck, 2009). The use of problem solving approach to deal with workplace stressor aims directly in