Summary Of Gwen Packard's Coping With Stress

Gwen Packard is the author of “Coping with Stress”, a book that identifies the causes of stress across different factors of a young individual’s life. The author describes stress as a response to the changes in life, and the need to adjust those changes. She states that any disruption in a person’s life, which changes their balance can be a large factor that leads stress. In the book, stress is related as a feeling of simultaneous unexpectedness, which the body responds to with a “fight-or-flight” response to relieve it. She states that teens especially, are exposed to a number of problems that previous generations were not confronted by. The author claims that although the same instincts of stress response are present from earlier times, the