Know your stressors and how do you cope up it.

Students will
identify his/her
stressor/s
 The Fruit and the Worm
Instructions:
1. If you were a fruit, what kind of fruit would you be? Draw that fruit in the box provided.

2. Think of the stressors that you usually encounter. For each stressor, draw one worm around the
fruit.
3. Now, illustrate the same fruit with worms inside. How does it look like?
4. Look at the worms that you have drawn. When you encounter such stressors, how do you respond
or cope with them?
5. In what ways can you relate with the fruit?
6. What happens to the fruit when there are worms inside it? How does it look?
LESSON NUMBER 05
DATE/S March 5-8, 2024

SUBJECT Personal Development

ACTIVITY TITLE Coping with Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence

LEARNING TARGET/S • Identify the different stressors.

• Identify causes and effects of stress in one’s life
• Demonstrate personal ways to cope with stress
and maintain mental health

REFERENCE(S) Techfactors Personal Development

SOURCE(S)
AUTHORS Chara Veronica F. Lomiteng, Rpm
Amore Mia H. Arandia, Rpsy, RPm
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Coping with Stress in Middle and Late Adolescence

Stress

Indicators That You

Personal ways of Have Successfully
Coping Stress Handled Stress
 Stress

- Is a natural physical and

mental response to life
experiences.
EUSTRESS
- stress can challenge and motivate you to find creative
solutions to your concerns.

DISTRESS
- when stress becomes so overwhelming and leads to a
sense of helplessness and exhaustion.
 Four Symptoms of Stress

Cognitive Physical
Symptoms Symptoms

Emotional Behavioral
Symptoms Symptoms
 Cognitive Symptoms
o Having memory problems
o Being unable to concentrate
o Having poor judgment
01 02
o Seeing only the negative
o Being anxious
o Worrying constantly
03 04
Emotional Symptoms
o Moodiness
o Irritability or short temper
o Agitation or restlessness
o
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or a hot planet?o Sense of loneliness and isolation
o Depression or unhappiness
 Physical Symptoms

o Body aches and body pain

o Diarrhea or constipation
o Nausea and dizziness
o Chest pain
o Rapid heartbeat
o Frequent colds
 Behavioral Symptoms

o Eating more or less

o Sleeping too much or too little
o Isolating yourself from others
o Procrastinating
o Neglecting responsibilities
o Drinking beverages, smoking cigarettes,
taking illegal drugs or playing computers
o Having nervous habits such as nail biting
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 Problem-Focused Coping
o Facing the situation squarely and
exerting efforts to solve the
problem.
o It has been linked to effective
adjustment, and this includes
enhancing the following skills: (1)
study skills,
(2) time management skills,
(3) problem-solving skills,
(4) support group.
 Emotion-Focused Coping
o Responding in an emotional way.
o This way of coping actively makes use of
defense mechanism (rationalization,
projection, displacement and aggression).
o Another way of dealing with stress is
avoidant coping. This involves ignoring a
problem and hoping that it will disappear
on its own (Wadsworth et al., 2011).
o Instant relaxers have been recommended such as:

1. eating food
2. performing deep breathing exercises
3. relaxing Is Mars
your a cold place
muscles
or a hot planet?
4. engaging in physical activities that may help
you calm down
5. using aromatherapy
6. having a good cry
7. talking about what you feel and think.
Is Mars a cold place
or a hot planet?
Indicators
That Have
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y Handled
Stress
 Indicators
That Have
Successfull
y Handled
Stress

1. Emotional stability.
2. Being tactful.
3. Doing well in school.
4. Learning to say “no.”
 Exercise

Deep Breathing Exercise

 Activity Time!

This Works For Me!

Directions: Illustrate
Is Mars your personal stress-busting techniques use
a cold place
or a hot planet?
photos, quotes, and symbols to signify each one of them. You may
use your own preferred materials. Be creative.
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