3 ARTICLES RELATED TO STRESS

This week’s update provides three articles related to stress.  These can be used in conjunction with Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, workplace and school issues, coping skills, as well as biological Psychology.

ARTICLE #1

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Stress Can Make You Sick. Take Steps to Reduce It

DESCRIPTION

This is a very interesting article that is both informing and helpful.  It discusses a new book by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, “The Stress Solution.”  “Stress is of course an inevitable part of life, and in small doses it can be beneficial. But in recent years a growing body of research has shown that persistently high levels of social and emotional stress — the kind brought on by a high-pressure job, a divorce, financial worries or strained relationships, for example — can dampen the immune system and promote inflammation, heart disease and premature aging.”  The article discusses a number of cases, how stress affects the individual both physically and psychologically as well as offering solutions that work.  This article can be used in a number of ways that include health Psychology, Positive Psychology, and biological Psychology.

SOURCE

New York Times, October 8, 2019, by Anahad O’Connor

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/well/mind/stress-can-make-you-sick-take-steps-to-reduce-it.html

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ARTICLE #2

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Mental Health Primers: Students Experiencing Stress

DESCRIPTION

This brief primer regarding student stress is from the APA Site: “Teachers are an important part of establishing and maintaining healthy environments for students to learn and grow. They also play an important role in guiding students suffering from excessive stress to professionals in the building who can be of assistance. Avoiding students who display signs of stress does not help them.  The Mental Health Primers are developed by the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education.”

This is a very informative piece that explains stress and provides a listing of symptoms found in students at various levels of education (schools).  It provides a number of solutions for teachers working with students from Pre-K up through high school.  The primer can be useful for issues in child development, health and positive Psychology, as well as to understand issues in abnormal Psychology in children and adolescents.

SOURCE

American Psychological Association

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/primer/stress

ARTICLE #3

TITLE

6 Tips to Reduce Your Daily Stress and Anxiety

DESCRIPTION

This is a very interesting article about stress from noted psychologist Daniel Keating.  He briefly provides a few perspectives on why we are more stressed in this time than years ago, provides an understanding of  physiological/biological correlates of stress.  “There are two major reasons that for several decades more Americans become stressed, agitated and anxious — which in turn increases their daily physical stress, which itself in turn has led to the ongoing decades-long epidemic in stress-related disorders and diseases.”  The majority of the article discusses (as the title states) six solutions to handling stress.   This article can be used in a number of ways that include Health Psychology, Positive Psychology, and biological Psychology.

SOURCE

Time, April 24, 2017, by Daniel Keating

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://time.com/4748658/stress-anxiety-tips-cortisol/

CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

•From a Psychological Perspective:  What is stress?  What are viewed as the causes of stress?

•What are the physiological correlates of stress?  Psychological correlates?

•How does stress manifest in children and adolescents across different levels of school/education?

•What are some of the solutions suggested to handle/manage stress?