DEMOS & CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES-HEALTH, STRESS, & COPING
I. Topic: Health and Stress
II. Purpose: To help students realize the connection or link between certain risk factors and their physical health.
III. Description: Handout/Worksheet
This worksheet summarizes the primary risk factors involved in the relationship between stress and health.
Completed Outline:| Good Health | Poor Health | |
|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Appraisal of Environmental Stressors: | Not Threatening | Threatening |
| Life-style Factors: | No Smoking | Smoking |
| No or Moderate Drinking | Heavy Drinking | |
| Healthy Diet | Unhealthy Diet | |
| Physically Fit | Physically Unfit | Coping Strategies: | Effective | Ineffective |
IV. Procedure:
1. Pass this worksheet out to students and ask them to complete as per directions.
Instructions: Psychological research over the past two decades has established a clear relationship between stress and physical health. Below you will find an incomplete outline of this relationship. Your task is to fill in blanks in the table to form a complete summary of this relationship.
| Good Health | Poor Health | |
|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Appraisal of Environmental Stressors: (Threatening vs Non- Threatening) | ||
| Life-style Factors: (4 Factors) | ||
| Coping Strategies: (Effective or Ineffective) |