LEARNING MODULE IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUBJECT RUBEE B. BEJERANO

TEACHER
WEEK 2, 2ND March 14-19,2022
SEMESTER (Fin.)
TOPIC Coping with Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence
1. Identify causes and effects of stress in one’s life;
LEARNING 2. Describe some activities that can manage stress; and
OBJECTIVES 3. Demonstrate open-mindedness in dealing with people who
experience stress
MODULE CONTENT
What do you understand about “stress?” Have you experienced stress?
A practical way of defining stress is the feeling one gets from prolonged, pent-up emotions.
Keep Stress Under Control
There are many effective ways to handle stress. Of course, you can’t avoid stress—in fact, you wouldn’t want to
avoid all stress, because you’d never grow. However, you can manage your life so that you survive the
emotional down times without allowing stress to engulf you. Also, you can work to eliminate controllable stress
factors, such as running late or not getting enough sleep. But when stress is constant or too great, your wisest
option is to find ways to reduce or control it. You need not, and should not, live your life in emotional stress and
discomfort. Stress can be successfully managed. Here are some suggestions that may help.

Understand the Causes of Stress

Understanding why you are under stress is important. This may seem obvious, but it requires deliberate,
conscious effort to pause and simply ponder your situation. By now, you are familiar with the stress response,
the emotional or physical symptoms of uncontrolled stress. Now you need to try to discover the stressors, the
factors of which create the stress in your life.

Analyze your Stress Factors and Write Them Down

Write down your response to stress. For example, you may write down, “I feel tired most of the time. My lower
back seems to ache all through the day and night. I miss deadlines and run behind schedule.” Analyze stress
responses and consequences, and consider each item, and ask why. “Why am I feeling tired? Why does my back
ache? Why do I run behind schedule? Carefully consider each answer, because the answers will reveal
stressors, such as deadlines, anxieties, trying to do so much, managing time or money poorly, or poor health
habits.
Deal with the Stressors
Develop techniques to deal with the causes of stress. The longer you avoid dealing with the stress factors, the
more the stress will build up. If tension comes because you have put off an unfinished task, restructure your
priorities so you can get the task that you have been avoiding out of the way and off your mind
Learn to Work under Pressure or Unusual Conditions
When you can’t reduce the stressors, you need to manage your stress response. Almost everyone, at least at
some point, has to meet deadlines, keep several jobs going at once, resolve problems that come up, and do extra
work when necessary. However, when the pressure mounts, you can relieve it. Relaxation is key—but most
people must train themselves to relax when the pressure is on.

Stress Management
Stress and change are part of our lives. We all talk about stress, but we are not always clear about what it is.
This is because stress comes from both the good and bad things that happen to us. If we did not feel any nstress,
we would not be motivated to do anything. Too much stress, however, can negatively impact our mental
wellness. It also may put students at greater risk of becoming involved in risk-taking behaviors. In senior high,
students are becoming increasingly more responsible for their own use of time. Often, they are beginning to
learn how to manage multiple tasks and expectations e.g., academic work, extra-curricular activities, family,
friends and work.

Causes and Effects of Stress

 Anxiety
 Pressure
 Misery
 Strain
 Desperation
 Tension
 Anger
 Panic
 Dejection

Stress Response

 Redirection of blood away from extremities and instead to major organs.

 The release of cortisol and other hormones, which bring other short and long-term changes.
 The stress response is intended to give you a burst of energy so you’re able to fight off attackers or run away
from them effectively.
 This helped our ancestors, who faced numerous physical threats, to stay safe.
 However, now our threats tend to be less physical and more associated with our way of life—a challenge to
our status, a demand for performance, etc. In addition to giving us a set of changes that may not match our
needs as well (it might be more effective for us to have a burst of mental clarity or wisdom than a burst of
physical strength, for example), the stress response can actually cause harm if it leads to a state of chronic stress
—that is, if our stress response is triggered, and then our body doesn’t go back to its normal state via the
relaxation response.

ASSESSMENT

PREASSESSMENT: Direction: We all have certain things, situations, or people that cause us to lose
our composure from time to time. Determine what causes stress for you by completing this activity.
When you begin to identify your stressors, you can become skilled at preventing negative
consequences. Place an X next to each
factor that causes you stress. There are blank spaces provided so you can add your own. Write your
answer in your journal.
 B. Stress Survival Kit
People deal with stress differently. Survival kits are essential to prepare before a crisis. Sometimes, we also
need to prepare survival kits for stressful situations, before they happen. In this activity, you will be making
your own survival kits that will help cope with stress within your everyday lives. Write your responses in your
journal.

1. Choose 3 objects or symbols that make you feel relaxed to include in

your kit.
 You can make symbols.
 You can use words or pictures.
 You can use an object from your home.
2. Think about how the symbol helps you when you are dealing with stress
and stressful situations.
3. Write a paragraph for each symbol or object in your kit and how it helps
you cope with stress in your everyday life.
4. Sharing a part of your kit with peers may be a follow-up activity
ASSIGNMENT
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