Presented By

ANUP AWASTHIPRINCIPAL K V DAMOH

What is Stress• Stress is defined as any interference that disturbs a person’s healthy mental and

physical wellbeing. It occurs when the body is required to perform beyond its normal range of capabilities

• Stress is a normal psychological and physical reaction to the ever-increasing demands of life.

• Stress typically describes a negative condition or a positive condition that can have an impact on a person's mental and physical well being.

• Physiologists define stress as “how the body reacts to a stressor, real or imagined, a stimulus that causes stress”.

• Stress results from an “imbalance between demands and resources” or as occurring when “pressure exceeds one's perceived ability to cope

STRESSORS• Sensory input : Pain, Bright light, noise, temperature,

inappropriate furniture, poor quality of air, food ,water, housing, health ,freedom or mobility.

• Social issues: Struggles with conspecific or difficult individuals and social defeat, relationship conflict, gender bias, deception, domestic violence ,immoral behavior of elders or role models .

• Life experiences: Poverty, deaths of near and dears, clinical depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, insufficient sleep, bullying, peer pressure, comparisons, performance pressure, attitude of the teachers and parents.

• Adverse experiences during development : Prenatal exposure to maternal stress, poor attachment histories, sexual abuse.

SYMPTOMS OF STRESS

COGNITIVE SYMPTOMS OF STRESS

• Memory problems• Inability to concentrate• Poor judgment• Pessimistic approach or thoughts• Anxious or racing thoughts• Constant worrying

EMOTIONAL SYMPTOMS

• Moodiness• Irritability or short temper• Agitation, inability to relax• Feeling overwhelmed• Sense of loneliness and isolation• Depression or general unhappiness

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS• Aches and pains• Diarrhea or constipation• Increased frequency of urination• Indigestion and acidity• Changes in blood glucose• Nausea, dizziness• Chest pain, rapid heartbeat, blood pressure• Frequent colds• Irregular periods.

Behavioral symptoms of stress

• Eating more or less• Sleeping too much or too little• Isolating oneself from others• Procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities• Using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax• Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)• Attention deficit • Absconding from school• Phobias

Diagnosis

• Salivary alpha amylase is used as a marker for

stress. Yamaguchi M, Yoshida H (2005) have analyzed a newly introduced hand-held device called the Cocorometer developed by Nipro Corporation of Japan.

• Trier Social Stress test: used to isolate the effects of personalities on ability to handle stress in a laboratory environment.

MODELS OF COPING

Transactional model by Richard Lazarus and Susan Folk man

Stress is not a direct response to a stressor rather to one's resources and ability to cope and mediate the stress• identify the factors that are central to a child controlling his/her stress

• identify the intervention methods which effectively target these factors

• perceive the stressor not as a threat but as positive or even challenging

• Stress won't disappear from life. And stress management isn't an overnight cure. But with ongoing practice and incorporation of resiliency in lifestyle, one can learn to manage stress level and increase ability to cope with life's challenges

THE HEALTH REALIZATION/INNATE HEALTH MODEL

• Stress does not necessarily follow the presence of a potential stressor. It is ultimately a person's thought processes that determine the response to potentially stressful external circumstances.

• Stress results from appraising oneself and one's circumstances through a mental filter of insecurity and negativity, whereas a feeling of well-being results from approaching the world with a "quiet mind".

• To help the stressed children understand the nature of thought—especially providing them with the ability to recognize when they are in the grip of insecure thinking, disengage from it, and orient to natural positive feelings.

• Stress can be removed from life if thought process is corrected

OUR ROLE IN REDUCING STRESS•Individual intervention and monitoring the stressors in the students. Helping them in avoiding /attacking the stressor and trying to figure out ways to alleviate them in any way.

•Developing social support system, and Exploring new and interesting ways of connecting with the students and society.

•Modifying behavioral patterns and belief system to bring positivity and optimism

•Creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and collaboration

•Student assistance programs (guidance and counseling)

•Flexible curriculum and daily timetable with due weightage to relaxation•Helping out students for setting realistic goals and their achievement (planning&execution)

•Setting the priorities to shift focus away from stressor

•Developing a challenging attitude towards the day to day tasks and exam

•Improving communications among students and teachers

•Making the student feel important

•Bringing infrastructural changes including lighting, air, temperature, odor, and up to date technology.

RELAXATION TECHNIQUES

• Relaxation maintains health and does the repairing the toll that stress takes on your mind and body.

• Relaxation techniques can help to slow your breathing and to focus your attention on the here and now.

• Common relaxation techniques such as meditation, tai chi and yoga, walking ,sports activity can be relaxing and help reduce stress.

• It doesn't matter which relaxation technique you choose. What matters is that you select a technique that works for you and that you practice achieving relaxation regularly.

BREAD for fighting stress

How to be happyHow to be happy: What science tells us• Happiness is due to personality and — more importantly — thoughts and behaviors that can be

changed.Invest in relationships• Surround yourself with happy people. Build up your emotional account with kind words and actions. • Be careful and gracious with critique. Express gratitude• Gratitude is more than saying thank you. It's a sense of wonder, appreciation and, yes, thankfulness

for life. Cultivate optimism• Develop the habit of seeing the positive side of things; bad things do happen but don't let the

negatives color your whole outlook on life..Find your purpose• People who strive to meet a goal or fulfill a mission— are happier than those who don't have such

aspirations.• Try to align your daily activities with the long-term meaning and purpose of your life. Research studies

suggest that relationships provide the strongest meaning and purpose to the life. Live in the moment• Don't postpone joy waiting for a day when your life is less busy or less stressful. That day may never

come.• Focus on the positives in the present moment, instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the

future.

To sum upways to manage stress

Manage stressbefore it

manages you !