Coping with Stress

Presentation, worksheets and lesson plan for secondary school aged students.
Learning objectives:

• Understand what is meant by the term ‘stress’
• Appreciate how common stress is, especially amongst teenagers
• Identify the factors that make them stressed
• Gain an appreciation of the differences and similarities between what makes different people stressed
• Recognise the emotional, physical, behavioural, and cognitive signs of stress and identify which of these they experience when stressed
• Understand the positive and negative consequences of stress
• Identify helpful and unhelpful ways of coping with stress
• Identify some helpful coping strategies that they can use next time they are stressed
• Know where they can seek further help and advice