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• Stress - is the reaction to the stressors and causes risks to an individual’s comfort or the feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with mental or emotional pressure
• Eustress - is the positive stress which promotes growth.
• Distress - is the common negative stress that causes poor performance.
• Stressor - Is an event or a situation that causes stressful situations, which are seen as risks to the well-being of the person.
• Your body is responding to these stresses through hormone secretion that will prepare your body to respond to the situation. Responding to the stress is not harmful to your body; however, frequent exposure or activation to stress has negative effects on the body. It will leave your body feeling tired, weak and impairs your immune system. These causes anxiety that later on affects your health, and can be classified as acute, cumulative or chronic. life and behaviour.
• Acute stress

  • most common form
  • arises form recent past and foreseen difficulties
  • occurs briefly and appears in hits of thrill
• cumulative stress

  • series of stress that has built up
  • several individual ignore the signs and end up accumulating them
• chronic stress

  • form of stress that is recurring
  • prolonged stress that is dangerous and can lead to severe health problems
• what are the different source of stress

  1. major life
  2. everyday problems
• what are the different source of stress

  1. major life - these stressful changes threaten ones sense of security and self-esteem like for example puberty
  2. everyday problems - "hassles" you encounter everyday like for example traffic jam
  3. physical surroundings - immediate surrounding affect the level of day to day stress like for example noise
  4. other stressors - involving teenagers include worrying about their future conflicts and disagreement like for example what course will you take in college
• common reaction during stressful situations

  1. physical signs - headache, sweating, nail biting, and etc.
  2. emotional signs - anger, irritability, nervousness, and etc.
  3. behavioral signs - loss of appetite, restlessness, sleep problems, and etc.
  4. psychological signs - constantly irritable with other people, and feeling of being a failure, and etc.
• general adaptation syndrome - a person senses a stressor, the body goes through the following stages, alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

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• alarm stage - is the phase where the brain deciphers the distress and instantly deals with it. also know as "fight or flight"
• resistance stage - is the process where the stress is being resolved after meeting its demands then the body goes back to normal afterward.
• exhaustion stage - develops when stress recurs until it become chronic and reaches its final stage.
• mange stressors - an important approach to minimize stess is to lessen stressors.
• Coping - refers to mental and behavioral efforts that we use to deal with problems
• ,coping with stress is essential in life. According to Santrock (2012),
• Problem-focused - refers to facing the situation squarely and exerting efforts to solve the problem.
• what are the Problem-focused coping

  1. Study skills,
  2. Time management skills,
  3. problem-solving skills, and
  4. Support group
• studies show that the efforts you exert are generally related to your achievements (Carbonaro, 2005).
• Academic success - is attained by improving your concentration or your ability to focus on what you are doing. In studying and comprehending what you are reading, you need the transition from light concentration to deep concentration
• Light concentration - is attained for about five minutes of studying or reading; after five minutes, you may arrive at moderate concentration.
• Time management skills - are important in coping because, if you manage your time well, you may be able to make your life less stressful
• Procrastination jeopardizes - the quality of your work as well as your capability to beat the deadlines.
• give at least five example of ways to improve your time management

  • Monitor your time
  • Plan your activities
  • Increase your efficiency
  • Tackle one task at a time
  • Make use of your down time
• • what are the ways to cope with with stress in physical, emotional, and mentally and spiritually give at lest three each.
  • physically

  1. Simple exercise
  2. Sleep at least 8 hours
  3. Take a Nap

  • emotionally

  1. Listen to Music
  2. Do your favorite hobbies
  3. Make a journal

  • Mentally and Spiritually

  1. Read books
  2. Think Positive
  3. Pray to God
• Catharsis - is releasing your pent-up emotions, which is achieved through talking and crying.
• 5 A’s” to help manage stress

  • avoid - Some types of stress are unavoidable, such as stress-induced by death, disease, or an accident. Take control of your environment and make changes if they are causing you stress,
  • alter - Stress may be caused by situations that you usually address as your daily routine.
  • adapt - Recognize that things happen, plans alter, and emergencies occur.
  • accept - You must be ready to accept mindfully that you may experience stress from any source or situation.
  • active - A brain, like a muscle, needs to be exercised to function optimally.
• what are the exterior part of the brain?

  • frontal lobes,
  • temporal lobes,
  • occipital lobes,
  • parietal lobes,
  • motor cortex
  • somatosensory cortex (Sousa, 2011).
• frontal lobe - is involved in planning and thinking
• According to Geday and Gjedde (2009), most of your working memory is located in the frontal lobe; thus, it is where your focus occurs.
• Your frontal lobe slowly matures until adulthood, which reveals that your capacity to control the excesses of the emotional system during teenage years is not yet fully functional during adolescence (Dosenbach et al., 2010).
• temporal lobes - are found above the ears. They deal with sound, music, face, and object recognition, and some parts of long-term memory
• occipital lobes - function for visual processing.
• parietal lobes - which are involved mainly with spatial orientation, calculation, and certain types of recognition.
• motor cortex - is the part of your brain that controls your body movement; it also works with the cerebellum to coordinate the learning of motor skills
•  cerebrum - is the largest brain structure, representing nearly 80 percent of the brain by weight (Sousa, 2011). It has folded bulges called gyri, and it is marked by deep furrows called fissures and shallow ones called sulci (singular: sulcus). The cerebrum is divided into two halves, called the cerebral hemispheres, by a sulcus that goes from front to back.
• The nerve cells - which are called neurons, are the functioning core for the brain and the entire nervous system
•  Neurons - are formed through a process called neurogenesis