Life orientation Grade 10's Presentation, it is About Personal Well being: Stress Management

1. Professional
Studies 3A
How to Reduce,
Prevent and Cope
with Stress.......?

2. Stress Management
What is Stress?
Stress is what we feel in
situations we find difficult,
challenging or even frightening. In
short stress is about feeling that
we can’t cope with a situation.
.....it is your body way of responding
to any kind of demand. It can be
caused by both good or bad
experiences.

3. Continues.........
Stress is an ordinary
physical reaction to events
making one feel threatened
or upset.

4. Different types of stressors
Emotional-such as a relationship problem
 Social-such as peer pressure causing you to
feel you can’t cope with what your group is
doing
 Life Crisis-such as death in the family or loss of
a job
 Economic-caused by not having enough money
for what you need
 Personality Based-some people are far more
prone to stress than others
 Environmental-caused by factors like extreme
weather conditions or pollution
 Physical-caused by physical harm, such as
sexual abuse or violence


5. Signs and Symptoms of stress
Short-term Effects:
 Faster breathing
 Faster heart rate
 Dry Mouth
 Sweaty palms
 Tension in Neck and
Shoulders
 Nausea
 Constipation and
diarrhoea
Long-term Effects:
 High Blood Pressure
 Headache
 Dizziness
 Excessive sweating
 Nervous indigestion
 Neck and Back pain
 Rashes, Allergies
 Ulcers

6. Activity for individual Grade 10
Topic : Stress management
Instructions:
 Answer all the questions
 Circle one number for each term
that is based unto you
 You need to calculate the score at
the end
 Write neatly

8. Pictures demonstrate people who are
stressed.

9. Different strategies of Coping with or
managing stress
Accept the things you can’t change
 Make time for fun and relaxation
 Adopt a healthy lifestyle
 Avoid unnecessary stress
 Breathing and Relaxation exercise
 And stretching exercises:

-Upper back stretch
-Neck stretch
-lower back stretch
-Cat stretch

10. Activity 1.2
Define the term stress. (2 marks)
 How stressed are you? (2 marks)
 Assess your level of stress...(3
marks)
 Identify your stressors. (7 marks)
 Why is it important to manage stress?
(4 marks)
 Name two signs and symptoms of
stress in a short term way and also a
Long term one.(4 marks)


11. Last question
Prepare
yourself as you will presenting
or explaining to the whole class what do
you understand about stress. (3marks)
Total : 25 Marks

13. Causes and Effects

What causes stress is mental,
physical or emotional tension. This
is caused by demands being made
on you, that you feel unable to cope
with. These demands can come
from outside you or from within
you and if they are not balanced
out by your ability to cope, then
you experience stress
unexpectedly.

14. What Are the Effects of Stress on the
Body?
Stress has various effects on the
body which manifested in the form
of:
 muscle tension and pain, chest
pain, fatigue, headaches, and
stomach problems.


15. References
Bond M. (1988) Stress and Self
Awareness: a Guide for
Nurses, Heinemann.
 Dilley L.(2006)Life Orientation,
learners book: oxford University press,
Southern Africa.
 http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stres
s_management_relief_coping.htm
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16. Presented
by
Zinto Anele Chonco
Topic: Personal well-Being (Stress
Management)
For Grade : 10’S
THE END...............
Thank You!!!
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