Stress and Effective

Coping Strategies

Group- Neuron.
ID Name
17202016 A K M Abu Zafor Shakil
17202045 Md. Abu Sufian
17206002 Mehedi Hasan Samrat
16103113 Tanvir Joy
CONTENTS
• What is Stress & Coping ?
• Coping Strategies-
• Turning Threat into Challenge.
• Making a Threatening Situation Less Threatening
• Changing One’s Goals
• Taking Physical Action.
• Preparing for Stress Before it Happens.
 What is Stress
• The response events that are threatening or challenging
called stress.
• It’s an incapable part of challenge
• A part of human existence
• Prompt mastery of new skill and behavior patterns
• When stress excessive difficulties be occur
• Person’s experiences disrupted emotional , cognitive and
physiological functions
• Also associated with the development of physical illness
(Cause of death, Heart disease , High blood pressure)
 Example
• Tara knox’s day began badly
• She slept through her alarm
•Had to skip breakfast in order to catch the bus to
campus
•In the library the needed article was missing
•Couldn’t get the computer to read her disk
•Searched for help but was unable to find anyone
•It was only 9:42 A.M. and all Tara could think about
was how much stress felt .
 COPING
• To invest conscious effort to solve personal and
interpersonal problems.
• To master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict.
• The effectiveness of coping effort depends on the
types of stress.
• The individual and circumstance.
• Coping responses are partly controlled by
personality.
 EFFECTIVE COPING STRATEGIES

• Actually Coping strategies are the behaviors, thoughts,

and emotions that you use to adjust to the changes that
occur in your life. There are many coping styles that
people use, and some may prove more effective than
others, depending on the nature of the stressful
situation and the person who is employing them.
• Now the question is how does one cope most effectively
with stress? That’s why researchers have made a
number of recommendations for dealing with problem.
TURNING THREAT INTO CHALLENGE.
 Actually there is no universal solution of course. Since
effective coping depends on the nature of the stressor and
the degree to which control is possible. Still some general
guidelines can be followed.
1. Turning threat into challenge. When a stressful situation
might be controllable, the best coping strategy is to treat
the situation as a challenge. Focusing on ways to control
it. For instance , if you experience stress because your car
is always breaking down, you might take an evening
course in auto mechanics and learn to deal directly with
the car’s problem. Even it prove too difficult to do yourself,
at least you’ll be in a better position to understand what’s
wrong.
TURNING THREAT INTO CHALLENGE.

Focusing on ways to control it. For instance , if you

experience stress because your car is always
breaking down, you might take an evening course in
auto mechanics and learn to deal directly with the
car’s problem. Even it prove too difficult to do
yourself, at least you’ll be in a better position to
understand what’s wrong.
 MAKING A THREATENING
SITUATION LESS THREATENING
CHANGING ONE’S GOAL
Taking Physical Action
Change in One’s Physiological
Reaction to it.
• Biofeedback.
Taking Physical Action
• Exercise.
• Change in Diet.
• Losing Excessive weight.
 Preparing for Stress Before it
Happens.
• Inoculation.