Unit 11: Managing Your Health and Stress
You may be aware that poor health can be a major cause of stress, but did you know that prolonged stress can also cause bad health? Especially if being a college student coincides with your first experience living away from your parents, or if you are balancing school with work or your own family life, college can present new and stressful academic, social, and financial challenges. Managing your responsibilities well includes managing the stress they may cause you, and this unit provides you with proven strategies for stress management that can help.
For some people, one of the biggest challenges about stress is recognizing the symptoms of stress before they are out of control. Others struggle with identifying the causes of their stress. This unit will present you with strategies to help you realize when you are feeling stress and pinpoint the cause of that stress. It will also give you techniques for managing and reducing stress, both in the short- and the long-term.
Completing this unit should take you approximately 17 hours.
Unit 11 Assessment
In this assessment, you will be asked to think about strategies for protecting yourself and safely dealing with stress. Please take note of the suggestions and resources that will appear after you submit your reflections. You may want to keep some of these phone numbers in your cell phone's contacts.