Lesson Plan

Subject/Course: Counseling
Topic: Stress Management
Lesson Title: Stress Management and Increasing Resilience
Level: 6-12th grade
Lesson Duration: 3o minutes

Lesson Objectives:
Students will learn strategies and tools that will help them to better manage their stress levels
and increase their level of resilience.

Summary of Tasks/Actions:
1. Introduction: Resilience video- 8 minutes
2. Group discussion: What are some sources of stress and how do you currently deal
with them? Toward strategies, away strategies? -5 minutes
3. Handout (independent): Stress Management -5 minutes
4. Stand up Hand up pair up: Discuss toward strategies. Share ideas. -5 minutes
5. Group discussion- Ideas for strategies to manage stress levels-5 minutes
6. Recap: Praise for effort and encourage use of toward strategies and plan for follow-
up. -2 minutes

Materials/Equipment:
Video- Resilience
Worksheet 1- Stress Management

References:
Reid-Larade, Alyson. (2015). “Resilience”. Be Your Own Hero.
“Surviving the Teens/Suicide Prevention; Teen Stressors”. (2018). Cincinnati Children’s.
Retrieved from https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/service/s/surviving-teens/coping on April
18, 2018.

Take Home Tasks:

Use the strategies in order to decrease stress and the negative affects it can have on emotions,
mood, and productivity.