Paper About Stress Management: How To Deal With Stress?

List of tables and pictures. Introduction. Meaning of stress. Causes and effects. Causes of stress. Effects of stress. Stress management. Best ways to deal with stress. Worst ways to deal with stress. Conclusions. References.

Purpose: to analyse the meaning of stress and how to deal with it

No matter what, stress is an important and unavoidable part of our life. Even though this experience is different to everyone of us, we all feel the effects in similar ways. There are a lot of different causes of the stress ( or in other words stressors ) and they all are pretty complicated.

There are some allocated psychophysiological reasons - emotional tension, anxiety, fear, agitation and self-anonymisation. Some authors even divide psychosocial stressors ( Table 2.1 ) into different categories: children and teens ( Table 2.1) and adult ( Table 2.3 ).

Fatherhood, motherhood : becoming a parent, conflicts with children, children’s diseases

Interpersonal relationships : conflicts with friends, neighbours, relatives, family members, best friend’s disease, problems with employer

Job : job at home, unemployment, fatigue, problems at school

Life conditions: change of the living place, unsafe environment, immigration

Personal development : life cycle changes – childhood, becoming adult, menopause

Physical diseases and injuries: diseases, auto accidents, operations, abortions, traumas

Family factors : conflict situations with parents or children, physical or psychological diseases in the family, excessive parental care or not caring at all, excessive or inadequate social care, dysfunctional families

Table 2.2. Children and teens psychosocial stressors ( H. I. Kaplan., B.J. Sadock, 1988 )

Conflict with a partner, started or finished school, child home alone, unsatisfying job, living in a criminal environment

Behavioural – any unhealthy behaviour that can lead to stress like not enough sleep, time management, using drugs, alcohol, tobacco.

First of all it is a global political - economical situation. Residents of the country most often consciously or unconsciously pays attention to the factors they are concerned about. A person is normally not only interested in a environment beauty but also in its pollution, rain and storms, the ozone hole and solar heat. People are concerned about the common law change, terrorism, nuclear weapon’s threats or emigration and the impact of globalization, increasing security risks and many other things.

Second growing stressor is families’ problems. One person with emotional, mental or other problem, make an influence to the normal functioning of his family. This causes a chain reaction: it disturbs not only the members of one family feelings, but also affects the environment, schools, workplaces, and even the general community. Sometimes personal past memories, emotional trauma and frustration can disrupt peaceful human life both in the family and beyond its borders. Any significant personality change may provoke unexpected stress feedback.