Organizational Methods for Managing Stress

Lesson Plan: Stress Less Students
|Counselor: | Adapted from health lesson play by Beth Emnett, Ithaca |
| |College |
|Grade: | Middle/High School |
|Subject: | Coping with Stress |

|Topic: | Stress management needs to be taught because it gives students a chance to learn how to calm themselves after |
| |a long day of school work and the other stresses in their lives. Managing stress not only helps students get a |
| |break from life, it also helps center them and make them more ready to learn. This is important when students |
| |are coming to a class that they may not always look forward to everyday. Stress management is also a topic that|
| |can be used whenever students want to and many techniques can be taught in the classroom. Stress affects all |
| |people in their everyday lives and people have to change in order to cope with this (Pincus & Friedman, 2004). |
|Content: | • Stress affects all people, everyday. |
| |• Stress can affect different people in different ways. |
| |• There are many stressors that are specific to each person. |
| |• We can reduce our stress by avoiding confrontations that create stress. |
| |• There are many different ways to cope with stress. |
| |• Each