Task

Identify five (5) ways on

how to manage stress.
Present your output to the
class.
 Objectives
Differentiate emotion-focused and
problem-focused coping strategies.
Identify different emotion-focused and
problem-focused coping strategies.
List down coping strategies in managing
stress.
Write an essay answering the question:
What causes a person to experience
stress and how could one handle it
effectively?
 Managing
Stress
TEACHER: PIO SANDINO LL. MENDINUETA
 Managing Stress
Coping Strategies
Emotion-Focused Coping
Problem-Focused Coping
 How can we
manage stress?
 Coping
Strategies
Coping Strategies
How we handle stress depends
on several factors such as
person’s characteristics, the
situation, and type of stressor
that he or she faces.
People differ in their coping
styles.
 Coping Strategies
A situation is stressful depending
on how one perceives it.
Coping is a cognitive or behavior
response to stress aimed at
managing or reducing stress
(Richard Lazarus).
Appraisal Theory
Primary Appraisal
Secondary Appraisal
Primary Appraisal
A person evaluates the
meaning of the situation
and checks if it will affect
him.
Secondary Appraisal
Involves how one feels
about the situation.
 Coping Strategies
Physical stress may be relatively
easier to handle but requires self
discipline in order to apply
changes such as having a
balance and nutritious meal, a
regular sleep pattern and regular
exercise.
 Coping Strategies
Social and emotional
relationship may be a little bit
difficult to handle yet they can be
managed.
As social beings, we seek other
people to fulfill our emotional
needs.
 Coping Strategies
Accepting change or changing the
way we think about a situation can
help.
Have supportive friends around you
or communicate your difficulties
with a counselor or psychologist if
you could not find a trusted and
mature person to talk to.
2 Types of
coping
strategies
 2 Types of coping
strategies
Emotion-Focused Coping
Problem-Focused Coping
Emotion-Focused Coping
It involves shame and
embarrassment, fear and
anxiety, excitement and
depression.
It is necessary to learn how to
control our impulses to be able to
take the appropriate action.
Emotion-Focused Coping
Emotion-focused coping is used
when a person has no capacity to
deal with the source of the
problem. Thus, a person uses
different strategies such as
avoiding, distancing, accepting,
or turning to alcohol.
Problem-Focused Coping
Deals with stressors directly in
practical ways.
People with problem-focused
coping take control of their
situation by removing the source
of stress or reducing the effects
of stressors.
Emotion - Focused Problem - Focused
Coping Behavior Coping Behavior

Eating more or less Talking with the person

concerned
Sleeping more or Researching about the
sleeping less topic
Excessive playing of Talking with friends
computer games about their opinion
Crying and shouting Strategizing
Activity
 Activity
Identify your coping
strategies in managing
stress based on the
strategies presented by
the teacher.
Reflection
 Reflection
“What coping strategy or
strategies do you prefer
every time you encounter
stress? Why?”
Essay
 Essay
What causes a person to
experience stress and
how could one handle it
effectively?
 John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you; my
peace I give to you. Not as
the world gives do I give to
you. Let not your hearts be
troubled, neither let them
be afraid.”