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Health – Grade 7
Quarter 3 – Module 2: Coping with Stress, Dying, and Death!
First Edition, 2020

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 Health 7
Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module 2
Coping with Stress, Dying, and
Death
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to Health Education 7 Third Quarter Module 2 on Coping with Stress,

Dying, and Death!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from
Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by Officer in Charge, Schools Division
Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin in partnership with the Local
Government of Pasig thru its Mayor, Hon. Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers
utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential
Learning Competencies (MELC) while overcoming their personal, social, and
economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the five C’s namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage
their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Health 7 Self-Learning Module 2 on Coping with Stress, Dying,

and Death!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. demonstrates various stress management techniques that one can use

every day in dealing with stress H7PH-IIId-e-36
2. explains the importance of grieving H7PH-IIId-e-37
3. demonstrates coping skills in managing loss and grief H7PH-llld-e-38

Specifically, you should be able to:

1. understand that grieving is a natural response to loss.

2. enumerate various stress management techniques that can be used in
dealing with stress.
3. accept grief can trigger many different and unexpected emotion.

PRE – TEST

Directions: Read each statement carefully. Choose your answer inside a box.
Write the letter of the correct answer.

A. Grief C. Death E. Alarm

B. Coping skills D. Loss F. Exhaustion

1. Prevent stress from getting us down and help us thrive, even in challenging
times.
2. Refers to the end of the physical being of a person that is caused by an
illness, ageing, or an accident.
3. Occurs when someone dies or a life situation changes or ends.
4. Refers to the emotional suffering caused by a loss, disaster, or misfortune.
5. The stage when a person experiences “flight or fight” feeling.
 RECAP
Direction: Read each question carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is
correct and FALSE if it is not.
1. Mental and Emotional Health refers to the dimension of health that
deals with a person’s thoughts and feelings and how they affect
everyday living.
2. People who find it difficult to cope with stress may be experiencing
health problems or disorders.
3. Stress is always negative.
4. Eustress refers to a positive and healthy response of the body from a
stressor.
5. Distress refers to a negative reaction of the body towards a given
stressor.

LESSON

COPING WITH STRESS

There are two parts to coping. One is being able to tolerate stress: to
function reasonably well in stressful situations and get through them. The
second part is recovering: getting back to normal when the stressful
situation is over.

Good coping skills prevent stress from getting us down and help us
thrive, even in challenging times.

If you feel you are stressed, don’t face it alone. People who can provide
you support in stressful situations. These are:
• Family
• Friends
• Guidance Counselors
• Teachers
• Barangay Workers

Advantages of Social Support Network

Stress can be better managed when your social support network is as
strong as it can be. Here are the reasons why you should strive harder in
strengthening your relationship with each identified member for your social
support network:
• Sense of Security
• Sense of Strength
• Feeling of Belonginess
Healthful Ways in Coping with Stress
• Think that you can manage and control everything
• Do something you enjoy everyday
• Get all the restful sleep you need to feel your best
• Make a positive face-to-face connection with people a priority

Stress Management Skills in Dealing with Stress

Stress management skills are techniques that can be used to cope with
harmful effects produced by stress.
1. Type one of skill focuses on doing something about the cause of stress
• Learning and using responsible decision – making skills can solve
the stressor that is causing stress.
2. Type two of skill focuses on keeping the body healthy and relieving
anxiety
• Exercising and eating a healthful diet are effective skills of these
kind. (Meeks, et al., 2011)

Ways to Manage Stress (Meeks, et al., 2011)

1. Use responsible decision – making skills.

• When faced with a difficult problem, relax and think of the best
solution for it.
2. Rest, relax, and sleep well.
• “When you are resting, your blood pressure lowers, heart rate
slows, and muscles relax. After sleep, you will feel invigorated and
ready to face the day’s challenges.”(Meeks, et al.,2011)
3. Stretch your bones and muscles.
• Physical activities release tension in the body and provide a
relaxing feeling.
4. Plan, work it, and plan again.
• One of the causes of stress is not being able to finish the tasks
that are needed for the day. To manage time well, it is best to
keep a daily schedule of your activities. Remember to identify
your priorities for the day. Do these things first then accomplish
the less important ones.
5. Write experiences in a journal.
• Narrate your successes and winning moments in a journal-diary.
Looking back at happy memories will enable you to have a good
and healthy mood ready to face any challenge.
6. Never hesitate to talk with parents and adults.
• Keeping your worries and problems to yourself will not help you
manage stress. It is best to find comfort and advice from people
who know you a lot – parents, relatives, or even teachers. They
may give you a different perspective and solutions to your difficult
problems.
 Remember that the positive change starts in you. Keep a sense of humor
to make things light. Reframe your outlook. “Reframing is changing your
outlook in order to see a situation in a more positive way” (Meeks, et al., 2011).

It is usually easy to identify whether a person is stressed or not. Again,

stress is the physical response of the body. Therefore, one may feel and
experience different changes in the health condition. The body changes that
occur from experiencing stress is called general adaptation syndrome (GAS).
According to Hans Selye (1936) and Sincero (2012), there are three phases of
this syndrome.

Alarm Stage Resistance Stage Exhaustion Stage

This is the stage This is the stage This is the stage

when a person when they body when a person
experiences “flight has already slowly loses the
or fight” feeling. A responded to the energy to manage
person’s body at stressor. A person the stress. This is
this stage releases in this stage also referred to as
“stress hormones” continuously the “gate toward
such as experiences the burnout or stress
adrenaline. It “stress”. But the overload” (Sincero,
enables a person strong feeling is 2012).
to do things less than the
he/she does not previous stage.
usually do.

Read the examples below

Distressful Situation: The whole street in a community was caught in fire. All
houses were burned.

Alarm Stage Resistance Stage Exhaustion Stage

When the fire The person was When the fire was
broke out, a able to escape killed, the person
person may feel safely from the was not able to
very alarmed. burning house, move on. He/she
His/her energy but still felt very experienced
suddenly raised up stressed because extreme sadness
he/she begins to he/she still and loss. He/she
carry heavy objects thought about the began to fell health
in the house important problems.
towards outside. things/he forgot to
save inside the
house.
 In addition, the following medical problems and concerns are linked
with negative stress (Payne, et. al., 2007):
• cardiovascular problems (heart attack, strokes, hypertension)
• gastrointestinal problems (ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome,
diarrhea, constipation)
• headaches and migraines
• muscle spasms and cramps
• anxiety
• jaw problems
• allergies
• cancer
• back pain
• asthma
• kidney disease
• sexual dysfunction
• infertility

COPING WITH DYING AND DEATH

Death refers to the end of the physical being of a person that is caused
by an illness, ageing, or an accident.
Loss occurs when someone dies or a life situation changes or ends
Grief refers to “the emotional suffering caused by a loss, disaster, or
misfortune” (Meeks, et al,, 2007).
Grieving it allows us to ‘free-up’ energy that is bound to lost person,
object, or experience – so that we might re-invest that energy elsewhere.

Furthermore, loss and grief may “include a change in the family,

changes in living conditions, the death of a friend, suicide, the death of a well-
known person, tragedies in the news, and the loss of special belongings”
(Meeks, et al., 2007). Loss, grief, and death may greatly affect the mental and
emotional health of a person.

What is Grief?

Grief is an intense emotion from a loss, disaster, or misfortune. There are two
terms used to describe the intensity of grief:

1. Low – grief death – a death caused by prolonged sickness or anticipated

death showing little emotion after death due to experienced grief prior
to death.
2. High – grief death – unexpected death where grieving process may be
more emotional and longer because no preparation for death was done.
What can we do for someone grieving a loss?

1. Be available during difficult times

2. Be thoughtful like sending a card or calling the person
3. Attend memorial services
4. Have empathy for the person’s loss
5. Encourage talking about person’s grief
6. Recognize signs of grief that are unhealthy

How can someone close help dying individuals?

1. Spend time with them

2. Share loving feelings, memories, and feeling of loss and pain
3. Encourage talk about individual’s death
4. Listen carefully to feelings and thoughts
5. Reassure the person with affection, hold hands, or hug
6. Share feelings of grief with family members and friends
7. Allow time for person grieving
 ACTIVITIES
Activity 1: Complete Me

Direction: Complete the following unfinished statements. Copy and answer

on a separate sheet of paper.
1. As an adolescent it is very important how to handle ___________________.
2. Because it is part of our lives no one is spared from experiencing
________.
3. Stress is not always ____________________.
4. Stress if not handled properly it may lead to _____________________.
5. If you’re unable to control your worries and stress is impacting your
daily life it is important to seek __________________.

Activity 2: Word Description

Direction: Write at least 5 phrases that describe each word in a given column.

STRESS DEATH LOSS GRIEF

Activity 3: Healthful Ways in Coping Stress

Direction: Read the following statements. Write the word Healthful if the
situation refers to healthful ways in coping stress and Unhealthful if the
situation is not. Copy and answer on a separate sheet of paper.

____________ 1. Drinking alcoholic beverages

____________ 2. Attending bible study
____________ 3. Seek advice to a counselor
____________ 4. Doing something you enjoy everyday
____________ 5. Restful sleep
 WRAP – UP

Direction: Answer the following questions: Write your answer on a separate

sheet of paper.

1. What are the following medical problems and concerns related to

negative stress? ____________________________________________________
2. Why it is easy to identify whether a person is stressed or not?
____________________________________________________________________
3. What is the importance of grieving?
____________________________________________________________________
4. What are the helpful ways in coping stress?
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Do you think your family can provide support in a stressful situation?
_____________________________________________________________________

VALUING
It is important to develop self-management skills to cope with stress.
Stress if not handled properly, it may lead to certain mental disorders that
may affect your overall well-being.
Grieving is important and healthy to one’s well-being.
What you think and feel is what you become.

POST TEST

Direction: Read the statements carefully and write the correct answer on the
blanks provided.
__________________ 1. The body changes that occur from experiencing stress.
__________________ 2. Stage of general adaptation syndrome (GAS) when a
person slowly loses the energy to manage the stress.
__________________ 3. Are techniques used to cope with harmful effects
produced by stress?

__________________ 4. It allows us to ‘free-up’ energy that is bound to lost

person, object, or experience – so that we might re-
invest that energy elsewhere.

__________________ 5. Occurs when someone dies or a life situation changes

or ends.
 KEY TO CORRECTION
5. Loss
Grieving 4.
Skill Management Skills 3.
Exhaustion Stage 2.
General Adaptation Syndrome 1.

Post Test

5. TRUE E 5.
4. TRUE A 4.
3. FALSE D 3.
2. TRUE C 2.
1. TRUE B 1.

Recap Pretest

REFERENCES
Books:
• Physical Education & Health 7, Teachers Guide, First Edition, 2017
• Physical Education & Health 7, Learner’s Material, First Edition, 2017
• Lacia, Gerardo et al.2015. The 21st Century MAPEH in Action, Grade 7. Manila:
Rex Book Store.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

EDWARD IAN T. ANTONIO

WRITER

CLARICEL L. ILAGAN
WRITER

RHEA P. MUYCO
EDITOR

JEFFERSON C. ORDILLAS
EDITOR

CRISTY A. ARELLANO
VIDEO/POWERPOINT PRESENTER/ILLUSTRATOR

ANNA JEAN J. FERNANDEZ

VIDEO/POWERPOINT PRESENTER/LAY – OUT ARTIST

JOELIE C. SY
SCHOOL SUBJECT COORDINATOR/FOCAL PERSON/ REVIEWER

MA. AMPARO G. SILVELA

SCHOOL HEAD

NORLYN D. CONDE EdD

EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR
MAPEH/SPA/SPS/HOPE/A&D/Sports
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