Stress management Mental and Emotional health

8th grade

Alan Keicher

HBO -4 Prevent and manage emotional stress and anxiety in healthy ways

Knowledge Expectations: Describe a variety of appropriate ways to respond to stress when angry or upset. (HBO 4) Describe how mental and emotional health can affect health-related behaviors. (HBO 4) List 3 causes, symptoms, and effects of stress. (HBO 4)

Skill Standards:

Standard 6:

Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

MEH6.8.1 Assess personal stress practices. MEH6.8.2 Set a realistic goal to improve or maintain positive mental and emotional health. MEH6.8.3 Assess the barriers to achieving a goal to improve or maintain positive mental and emotional health. MEH6.8.4 Apply strategies to overcome barriers to achieving a goal to improve or maintain positive mental and emotional health. MEH6.8.5 Use strategies and skills to achieve a goal to improve or maintain stress management.

Skill standard 7 : Practice health enhancing and avoid or reduce health risks:

MEH7.8.3 Demonstrate healthy mental and emotional health practices and behaviors to improve the health of oneself and others. MEH7.8.4 Make a commitment to practice healthy mental and emotional health behaviors MEH7.8.2 Analyze personal mental and emotional health practices and behaviors that reduce or prevent health risks.

Day 1 Lesson Focus Assessing personal stress and setting goals to overcome it

Day 2 Lesson Focus

Outside sources of stress and help

Day 3 Lesson Focus

Stress management techniques And Behavior change strategies

Day 4 Lesson Focus

Reflection + Where we are with stress and where we want to be

Day 5 Lesson Focus What is future stress? And how to manage it.

Objective Assess personal stress and list 3 ways that you deal with stress in an unhealthy way List 3 causes, symptoms, and effects of stress. Log how mental and emotional health can affect three different health related behaviors in students everyday life

Objective Students will assess and discuss 3 outside sources relative to their mental health goals

Objective Describe a variety of appropriate ways to respond to stress when angry or upset. Students will demonstrate the healthy practices and behaviors of deep breathing to improve the health of oneself and others. Students will assess personal stress practices to identify three areas of their life that are negatively affected by stress. Analyze personal mental and emotional health practices and behaviors that reduce or prevent health risks.

Objective

Objective

Students will describe how mental and emotional health has affected 2 health related behaviors this week. Students will describe 3 appropriate ways to respond to stress Students will assess personal stress practices to identify 4 areas of their life affected because of stress (Health, Relationships, extra curric, school or work) Students will demonstrate the healthy practices and behaviors of Progressive muscle relaxation and yoga to improve the health of oneself and others.

Students will list and analyze 3 personal mental and emotional health practices before and after the week long stress log Students will assess their personal stress practices via their stress log to determine where improvement is needed Students will demonstrate the healthy practices and behaviors of deep breathing, Progressive muscle relaxation and yoga to improve the health of oneself and others.

Identify three barriers and apply strategies to overcome said barriers to achieve your recorded weekly goal to improve or maintain positive mental and emotional health Assessment

Set and record realistic goal on the front of your journal to improve or maintain positive mental and emotional health Assessment Assessing my stress worksheet Group activity with worksheet (Group then class discussion) Aka 4 major categories of life affected by stress

My mental health outside sources worksheet

The three little barriers worksheet (personal barriers students encounter) Group Activity (role play) = Identifying stress barriers
-students will create situations from the stations stress barrier

Assessment Assessment mental health before and after worksheet Solothen think, pair, share Before and after worksheet (Group discussion) Continuing mental health

Assessment How stress affects my life worksheet (2 consequences this week *positive/negative*)

When Im feeling stressed I can

Appropriately responding to

(health, relationships, school/work, and extracurricular) My stress goals (log) Handout to be graded later in the week= stress folder and Stress Log spec sheet For independent practice log; List 3 causes, symptoms, and effects of stress.

stress Week long=Stress log spec sheet Stress Folder

My life and my stress worksheet- Categories such as relationships, school, work, hobbies/school will be addressed and how they are hurt or underperformed/underachieved because of stress Where I am and where I want to be (students name 3 possible problems for each of the 4 categories)

Lesson outline Lesson outline o Discuss outside sources o Students will as a positive or a Circle/Identify from the negative handout; listing from 1 to 10 what causes the most stress upon their everyday life o The three little barriers o Group students together worksheet by their most common (personal barriers students stressors and have them encounter) discuss the different ways they cope: Then, have students o Group Activity (role play) brainstorm new healthy = strategies on how to Identifying stress barriers cope Assessing my stress worksheet o My stress goals worksheet o Closure and homework including stress folder and journal with description of what is to be logged.

Lesson outline o o When Im feeling stressed I can Class discussion of natural ways to relieve stress Class discussion of the breathing technique handouts and how students will apply it to their life Breathing techniques exercise Class discussion of how things are going with the stress folder as well as the journal o log about how deep breathing helped you and how you could implement it

Lesson outline Have students discuss in groups and reflect on how the weeks gone. Whats has/hasnt worked and what obstacles are in the way and how can we best deal with them. o Responding to

Lesson outline Class discussion of a brief wrap up of well or not well the week went Continuing mental health worksheet Enhanced mental health worksheet Solothen think, pair, share o Before and after worksheet (Group discussion) Quick run through of all the techniques practiced over the past 2 days Class discussion of future problems

Responding to stress; When Im feeling stressed I can (Worksheet)

o o Grouped students for muscle relaxation/yoga demo o o In class reflection sheet o My life and my stress worksheet o

Students receive Stress management folder and log as their exit ticket o