Describe the stressor. It can be a personal example or taken from someone you’ve known

• Describe the stressor.  It can be a personal example or taken from someone you’ve known or seen depicted.
  • Focus on a single stressor, or if more fitting, a group of closely related ones.
  • Choose an example you know well.
  • Give a thorough description
    • Characterize the stressor in terms of chronicity and control, explaining how each concept applies.

      dentify a Stressor (Use this text as a header)

Describe the Stress Reaction (Use this as a header)

Describe the stress response.  for both physical and psychological effects

What were the physical effects?

Fight-or-flight reactions? What are those? How applicable to your example?

Selye’s exhaustion phase? What’s that? How applicable to your example?

Immune effects?  What are those? How applicable to your example?

(Other physical reactions? Describe these.)

What were the psychological effects?

Stress interpretation – the two steps. What are these? Apply to your example.

Burnout? What’s that? How did it apply? Which of the psychological symptoms of burnout shown in text were seen, and how? Other signs?

The Coping Responses Used (Use this as header)

You have 11 to choose from:  “Mind Management” (3 types), “Body Management” (4 types), and “Body Management (4 types).

Describe each coping response used and show how each matches the strategy as described in text

Evaluate each strategy used: For each: How effective was it?

What other textbook strategy (or strategies) might have worked? Say how it might have helped.