Literature Review#1
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Chapter_1_PPT.pptStress Management For Life
Chapter 1
Stress in Today’s World
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Stress in Today’s World
Best of Times
- opportunities
- freedom of choice
- vast array of information
Worst of Times
- feeling overwhelmed
- stress
- information overload
Control Your Own Destiny
proper skills
right information
Stress: What Is It?
- “A scientific concept which is too well known and too little understood.” Hans Selye
- a demand made on the adaptive capacities of the mind and body
Three Important Aspects of Stress
can be a positive or negative factor
reaction rather than the actual event determines outcome
body is strong and healthy positive outcome
or
lack ability to handle demands negative outcome
Relationship Between Stress,
Health and Performance
- too little stress boredom, lethargy
- too much stress physical and emotional breakdown
- proper balance healthy, productive life
Yerkes-Dodson Principle
- to a certain point, stress is healthy, useful and beneficial
- when stress exceeds ability to cope diminished performance, inefficiency and/or health problems may result
Terminology of Stress
- stressor – any event perceived as a threat that causes adaptation or the initiation of a stress response
- eustress – positive, desirable stress that motivates and inspires
- distress – negative effects of stress that drains energy
- acute stress – short term, sudden, intense, disappears quickly
- episodic acute stress – repeated bouts of acute stress, extended over arousal
- chronic stress – long term stress, unrelenting demands and pressures, last an interminable time
Holistic Health
“Modern man is sick because he is not whole”
Carl Gustav Jung
- Health is more than the absence of disease and is more than just physical.
- Holistic health encompasses physical, intellectual, spiritual, social and emotional dimensions.
- The holistically healthy person is complete and balanced.
Dimensions Of Health
Holistic Health: Putting It All Together
Sources of Stress
STRESS
time
management
personal
expectations
school
choices
information
overload
living
arrangements
family
physical
health
environment
relationships
daily
hassles
employment
