Discussion topic for Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health

Choose one of these options and fully explain your answer in your post. Your post should be at least a long paragraph (4-5 sentences). In your post, you must apply a concept from the textbook. Put the concept in bold print.

Option 1: Discuss two positive effects of stress. How can you take advantage of the positive effects of stress to manage class demands, work, family or other demands you face as a student? Talk about two strategies.

Option 2: How do you manage stress and improve coping? Talk about two coping strategies. Do you have different methods of stress release when you feel you are being treated unfairly? When you are emotional? Overwhelmed with all you have to do? What better strategy could you use the next time you experience stress?

Option 3: Identify two different causes of stress in your life. What are two short and two long-term consequences of stress? What can you do to better manage the stress you experience?

After you have submitted your post, you must respond substantively to someone else’s post. An example of substantive would be addressing another issue from the book or lecture that applies to that person’s post, or talking about something that you have read somewhere else or learned in another class that is relevant to that person’s post. Cite the source of your information it is a source outside of the textbook.

heres the name of the textbook: Psychology Themes and Variations 11th edition Wayne Weiten