3. At the end of this session, you will be to:
• Define stress
• List the types of stress
• Discuss factors leading to stress
• List the symptoms and effects of stress
• Identify ways of dealing with stress
4. Stress may be defined as the way
in which your body reacts to
demands placed on it.
6. STRESSORS
Factors that lead to stress
INTERNAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL EXTERNAL/ENVIRONMENTAL
Personality Type Perception
Past Experience Feelings
Acute
Chronic
9. Drag and drop the items to the correct location.
Distress Perception Eustress Yoga
1. Pathogenic form of
stress
2. Positive form of stress
3. Dealing with stress
4. Internal stressor
Distress
Perception
Yoga
Eustress
10. • Stress may be defined as the way in which your body
reacts to demands placed on it.
• Eustress is the positive form of stress that motivates
individuals to attain higher levels of performance and
achievement.
• Distress is the pathogenic variety that has
unpleasant, harmful side effects.
• Stressors could be internal or external in nature.
• Stress may have physical, mental, emotional, social,
and spiritual effects.
• There are several ways by which stress can be
managed.
Editor's Notes
Voice over: Stress, a word that every second person uses, seems to be a fast-catching epidemic, especially in the corporate world. What is stress and how can you go about managing it? Click Next to find out.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display the title and the Next arrow.
Voice over: Are you stressed? You have an important presentation to make and you’ve already missed your bus. Stress! You reach office but one look at your watch tells you that you are 15 minutes late for the presentation. How is the panel going to react? Stress! Well, the presentation was not bad except the not so comfortable stares that you got for walking in late. You reach your desk and start your system and there you see loads of mails that require your immediate attention. Stress! Click Next to learn more about it.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display the top image at the start of this voice over and then display the other images in sync with the voice over.
Both the Back and Next arrows should be active.
Voice over: At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Define stress
List the types of stress
Discuss factors leading to stress
List the symptoms and effects of stress
Identify ways of dealing with stress
Click Next to continue.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display the points in sync with the voice over.
Voice over: Stress may be defined as the way in which your body reacts to demands placed on it. Click Next to know its types.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display the image and the definition.
Both the Back and Next arrows should be active.
Voice over: Stress is often presumed to be negative and undesirable but this isn’t true. There are two types of stress – Eustress and Distress. Click the tabs to learn about these types.
For the Eustress tab: Eustress is the positive form of stress that motivates individuals to attain higher levels of performance and achievement. For example, a new project may motivate you and you may begin planning for its success.
For the Distress tab: Distress is damaging stress. It is the pathogenic variety that has unpleasant, harmful side effects. Multiple tasks, tight deadlines may lead to distress.
Click Next to know more about stress.
Notes to Graphic Designer: This will be a toggle with two tabs – Eustress and Distress. Learners can click either tab and the relevant audio will play. Display the text and images (examples) to sync with the voice over.
Both the Back and Next arrows should be active.
Voice over: What leads to stress? Stressors are factors that lead to stress. These are of two types: Internal or Psychological Stressors and External or Environmental Stressors. Click the tabs to learn about these types of stressors.
For the Internal/Psychological tab: Internal stressors are intrinsic to a person. These include:
Personality Type: A type A person is more prone to stress.
Perception: The values, attitudes, etc. that a person holds can also act as stressors.
Past Experience: This can help a person become immune to the same stressful situation.
Feelings: These play an important role and differ from person to person.
For the External/Environmental tab: External stressors fall into two categories:
Acute: These are major blows that the person may have to deal with such as sudden resource crunch in the face to tight deadlines.
Chronic: This is repetitive and of low level caused by a combination of day to day stressors such as daily tasks to complete.
Click Next to learn about the symptoms and effects of stress.
Notes to Graphic Designer: This will be a toggle with two tabs – Internal/Psychological and External/Environmental. Learners can click either tab and the relevant audio will play. Display the text and images (examples) to sync with the voice over.
Both the Back and Next arrows should be active.
Voice over: Click each word to look at examples of the symptoms and effects of stress. Then click Next to know ways of managing stress.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display all images along with the captions, which will be clickable. Clicking the captions will open a pop up, which will contain examples as shown in the call outs.
Both the Back and Next arrows should be active.
Voice over: There are several ways, using which you can manage stress. Some of them include:
Maintaining a balance between personal and professional life
Being in the company who spread positivity
Practicing yoga, including prayer in your life, meditating
Taking your dog for a walk or just getting a pet (they act as stress busters)
Exercising
Taking proper nutrition
Can you think of any other way of managing stress?
Now that we have completed our session on stress management, click Next to see how much you have understood.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display all visuals and enlarge each as they are mentioned in sync with the voice over.
Voice over: It’s time to check your understanding. Try and answer this question.
For correct attempt: That’s right! You have correctly matched the items to each other.
For 1st incorrect attempt: Not quite. You could give it another shot.
For 2nd incorrect attempt: Not really. The correct answers have been displayed for you.
Click Next to go to the Summary screen.
Notes to Graphic Designer: The learner gets two chances. Play the relevant feedback voice over depending on the answer option that the learner selects. If the learner attempts incorrectly even on the second attempt, display the correct answers.
The Back arrow should be deactivated.
Voice over: Let’s do a recap of the points covered in this session.
(After all the points have been displayed) Click Next to end this session.
Notes to Graphic Designer: Display the points after sufficient intervals.
The Back arrow should be deactivated.
