Chapter 3 Managing Stress

What is STRESS?

• An event or situation that causes stress.

• The response of your mind and body being challenged or threatened.

What is a stressor?

• An event or situation that causes stress.

• The response of your body and mind being challenged or threatened.

Negative stress in known as

• Distress

• Eustress

Positive stress is known as

• Eustress

• Distress

A catastrophe is

• An everyday problem that can be easily solved.

• an event that threatens lives and may destroy property.

Fight-or-flight response is

• when you prepare to either "fight" the stressor or "take flight" and escape.

• how you recognize stress, but not respond to it.

Optimism is

• the tendency to focus on the positive aspects of a situation.

• is the tendency to focus on the negative aspect of a situation and expect the worst.

Pessimism

• is the tendency to focus on the negative aspect of a situation and expect the worst.

• is the tendency to focus on the positive aspects of a situation.

A perfectionist

• is a person who accepts nothing less than excellence.

• is someone who has the ability to recover, or "bounce back back" from extreme or prolonged stress.

Someone who is resilience

• has the ability to recover, or "bounce back," from extreme or prolonged stress.

• is a person who accepts nothing less than excellence.