TEENAGE STRESS Laura sits in her room surrounded by a stack of notes‚ cramming for a test that she entirely forgot about‚ while James stares blankly at a college application. He also has the knowledge that he must be at work in 20 minutes‚ and that his car hardly has any gas left in it. Both of these teenagers suffer from a common dilemma‚ stress. Stress is a reaction to external and internal pressure. It is a normal function that helps people in their daily lives ("Stress: Who"). Without
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Iqra University‚ Karachi INTRODUCTION Job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities‚ resources‚ or needs of the worker. Job stress can lead to poor health (mental and physical). "25% of employees view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives." --Northwestern National Life. "75% of employees believe the worker has more on-the-job stress than a generation ago." --Princeton Survey Research
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Stress management Mantra Meditation Meditation has been a part of my everyday life since I’ve become a mother. In 2011‚ I had my first child and everything was new to me. I found myself becoming stressed over changing diapers‚ cleaning the house‚ doing homework‚ and many other aspects that were once easy to. Before I took this class; I did some research on way to relieve post- partum depression‚ also known as “baby blues”. I found that mantra meditation was a technique
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Parenting Stress . Parenthood brings immense amounts of joy‚ pride‚ personal growth and other good things to those with children; it can also bring a lot of challenges for parents. Being a parent can be one of life’s most joyful and unexplainable experiences. Parenting and motherhood requires hard work physically and emotionally. Also‚ it needs great deal of sacrifices for the growth of children. Perhaps‚ it is the juggling of so many roles and tasks that’s why parenting stress commonly occur
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Definitions of stress: The most commonly accepted definition of stress (mainly attributed to Richard S Lazarus) is that stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that “demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.” In short‚ it’s what we feel when we think we’ve lost control of events. http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_00.htm The UK Healthy and Safety Executive defines stress in the following way: "the adverse
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Stress can be a positive thing - helping an individual to grow‚ develop‚ be stimulated and take action. However‚ if stress exceeds a person’s ability to cope it can impact on their mental and physical health in a range of ways. Some research studies estimate up to two thirds of illnesses seen by GP’s are stress related. In the days of the caveman‚ stress often came in the form of physical threats that required individuals to react quickly and decisively. The body helped out by automatically
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Title : STRESS REDUCTION AND RELAXATION TECHNIQUESNames : Azhari bin Mohd Tan Mohd Abdul Jabbar bin Mohd ZinMatrix number : 2012877048 2012649568 | I Introduction There are many ways to reduce stress and gain relaxation such as release tension physically and emotionally‚ visualization meditation for stress relief and maintain a healthy eating diet. II Body A One way to overcome this
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the many uses for music therapy is stress management. Throughout the course of a day people experience many stressors‚ school‚ work and family‚ just to name a few. Music has a unique ability to lower levels of anxiety and tension when listened to under the proper conditions. There are many correlations between the types of music listened to and the amount of decreased stress. To explain how some music lowers levels of stress and others don’t‚ one should know how sound is processed through the brain
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INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF STUDY Work Related stress is a major cause of employee’s low productivity in an organisation. Encarta dictionary defines stress as strain felt by somebody mentally‚ physically‚ emotionally which may cause symptoms as raised blood pressure and depression. It is important to recognise and address properly job-related stress because it badly affects the employee’s mental and physiological health. As there is so many resources for employees to perform excellent in their jobs
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Post traumatic stress disorder‚ known as PTSD‚ is an anxiety disorder that affects one’s mental health. Its victims experience symptoms following the witnessing of events that cause severe psychological distress. Such events are mostly those of war‚ violence‚ abuse‚ or serious accidents. Lasting from a few months to many years‚ post traumatic stress disorder causes very intense‚ emotional or physical pain. Although many health professionals used to question whether or not PTSD is a legitimate disorder
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