It may seem that there’s nothing you can do about stress. The bills won’t stop coming, there will never be more hours in the day, and your career and family responsibilities will always be demanding. But you have more control than you might think. In fact, the simple realization that you’re in control of your life is the foundation of stress management. Managing stress is all about taking charge: of your thoughts, emotions, schedule, and the way you deal with problems.

2. Coping with Stress
Efforts to control, reduce, or learn to
tolerate the threats that lead to stress
are known as coping.

3. Steps To Managing Stress
Step 1: Identify if you are stressed.

4. Step 2: Identify the stressor.
Steps To Managing Stress

5. Step 3: Identify the reason for the
stressor.
Steps To Managing Stress

6. Step 4: Select an appropriate stress
management strategy and apply it.
Steps To Managing Stress

7. Relief from stress
Stop shallow breathing

8. Create the habit of deep breaths

9. Visualize and communicate your vision

10. Laugh

11. Be aware of your choices;
you always have a choice

12. Learn to say no; you cannot do
everything you are asked.

13. Be thankful

14. Do nothing. That's right,
folks, do nothing at all.
Close the door, open the
window, have a seat, and
take a little break from
life. If your mind is racing,
learn to meditate and just
let that stress go.

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

16. So enjoy your life as it comes
………..and always be happy

17. STUDENT STRESS RATING SCALE
The following are events that occur in the life of a college student. Place a check in the left-hand
column for each of those events that has happened to you during the last 12 months.
___ Death of a close family member - 100 points
____ Jail term - 80 points
____ Final year or first year in college - 63 points
____ Pregnancy (to you or caused by your) - 60 points
____ Severe personal illness or injury - 53 points
____ Marriage - 50 points
____ Any interpersonal problems - 45 points
____ Financial difficulties - 40 points
____ Death of a close friend - 40 points
____ Arguments with your roommate (more than every other day) - 40 points
____ Major disagreements with your family - 40 points’
____ Major change in personal habits - 30 points
____ Change in living environment - 30 points
____ Beginning or ending a job - 30 points
____Problems with your boss or professor - 25 points
____ Outstanding personal achievement - 25 points
____ Failure in some course - 25 points
____ Final exams - 20 points
____ Increased or decreased dating - 20 points
____ Changes in working conditions - 20 points
____ Change in your major
____ Change in your sleeping habits - 18 points
____ Several-day vacation - 15 points
____ Change in eating habits - 15 points
____ Family reunion - 15 points
____ Change in recreational activities - 15 points
____ Minor illness or injury - 15 points
____ Minor violations of the law - 11 points
Score: _________________

18. INTERPRETING YOUR SCORE
Less than 150 points : relatively low stress level in
relation to life events
150 - 300 points : borderline range
Greater than 300 points : high stress in relation to life
events
Note: From Girdano, D.A., Everly, G. S., Jr., & Dusek, D. E.
(1990). Controlling stress and tension (3rd edition),
ENnglewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

19. Conclusion:

20. Stress can be overwhelming, and
nearly impossible to get through life
without encountering. Learn to identify
those situations you can do something
about and those you can't. Work at
reducing the cause of your stress by
being organized.