Health Online
Dealing with Stress
Step 1. Questions
Stress is the body’s response to the demands of day-to-day living. Stress can be positive or negative. Positive stress, or eustress, prompts a healthful response. At school, a student might feel stress just before giving a speech or taking a test that may help the student perform at his or her best. Negative stress, or distress, prompts a harmful response. For example, changes in a person’s family life may cause ongoing stress that may result in illness or family conflicts.
For this e-Journal project, you will research and write about stress. Here are some questions to investigate: - What is stress? Find examples of events that may cause stress in teens and adults.
- How can stress be useful? How can it be damaging?
- How can teens reduce stress in their lives? How can they cope with stress in healthful ways?
- What questions might a teen have about stress?
First, visit the Web sites listed in Step 2 to research the answers to these questions. Take notes in the note-taking boxes. You may also visit other Web sites, or research stress in encyclopedias and other books at the library.
Then, follow Steps 3 and 4 to write your report.
Step 2. Research
Research answers for the questions you were asked in Step 1. Visit these Web sites. Take notes about them on this page, too!
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