Stress can be bad for your mental and physical health. Learn ways to manage and reduce stress in your everyday life.

2. What is Stress?
• A physical and emotional reaction to pressure,
change, fear or the unknown.
• It is your total response to an environmental
condition or stimulus, also known as a stressor

3. Work Stress
• Also known as Occupational Stress
• It is “the adverse reaction people have to excessive
pressures or other types of demand placed on them
at work.”
• Stress is not an illness – it is a state. However, if it
becomes excessive and prolonged, mental and
physical illness may develop.

4. Stages of Stress
ALARM
STAGE
RESISTANCE
STAGE
EXHAUSTION
STAGE

5. Factors Influencing Work Stress
• Demands
• Relationships
• Change
• Management Style
• Working Conditions

6. ABC Strategy
A= Awareness
B= Balance
C = Control

7. Ways to Manage Stress
Be Action Oriented:
• Manage your time:
• Identify where you can improve and use time management tools like
to-do lists etc.
• Manage other people:
• People can be a significant source of stress. Being assertive and
managing conflicts will ensure that your needs are addressed.
• Manage your work environment:
• Workspace stress can come from irritating, frustrating or
uncomfortable conditions workspace. Take action to minimize
stress in this environment

8. Ways to Manage Stress
Emotion Oriented Approaches:
Emotion oriented approaches are useful when the stress
you are experiencing comes from the way you perceive a
situation.
• Be aware, use rational & positive thinking to change the
way you perceive stressful events
• Use affirmations & imagery to overcome short-term
negative thinking

9. Ways to Manage Stress
Acceptance Oriented Approach:
Acceptance-oriented approaches apply to situations where you have no power to
change what happens, and where situations are genuinely bad.
• Use techniques like meditation and physical relaxation to calm yourself when you
feel stressed.
• Take advantage of your support network – this could include your friends and
family, as well as people at work and professional providers, such as counselors or
family doctors.
• Get enough exercise and sleep and learn how to make the most of your down time,
so that you can recover from stressful events.
• Learn how to cope with change and build resilience, so that you can overcome
setbacks.

10. In Conclusion
• To control your stress, conduct a job analysis, so that you know
your most important priorities at work.
• Learn good time management strategies, so that you can handle
your priorities effectively.
• Try to let go of negative thinking habits and become a positive
thinker by using affirmations and visualization.
• Create defenses against stressful situations that you cannot control
– use your network, be sure to get enough exercise and sleep, and
learn how to relax.

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