Managing Stress

Stress commonly emerges from poor money management, poor time management, family obligations, or school obligations. Being better able to understand stress, identify stress patterns in your life and identifying how to minimize stress and reduce the negative effects of stress will help you to live a more balanced and comfortable life.

Learning Objectives

After you have completed this topic’s activities, you should be able to:

• Identify techniques and strategies for managing anxiety and stress
• Choose your preferred techniques or strategies for managing anxiety or stress.

Summary of Learning Activities

By the end of the module, you should have completed the following:

Reading:	Chapter 10, Section 10.5 Stress
Video:	Stress Management Techniques: Ways to Unwind
Assignment:	Stress Management Assignment (50 points)

For grading information, refer to Course Grading in the Syllabus.

Stress Management Reading and Video

Reading

In Chapter 10 of the College Success e-book (Links to an external site.), read section 10.5 Stress (Links to an external site.).

Video

Stress Management Strategies: Ways to Unwind (Links to an external site.)

• Due Friday by 11:59pm
• Points 50
• Submitting a text entry box, a website url, a media recording, or a file upload
• File Types doc, docx, ppt, pptx, and pdf
• Available Oct 28 at 4pm – Nov 6 at 11:59pm 9 days

Purpose

Using the learning materials from this module, develop a presentation on techniques or strategies for managing stress.

Directions

As you are keenly aware, managing family life, academic life and work life can be very stressful for students. Imagine you are presenting information to new college students. Your audience can be: 18 year old new high school graduates, adult (over 25) students, second degree students (they are changing their career field entirely and are seeking a second degree) or transfer students (transferring to NOVA).

1. Create a “presentation” for your desired audience, make sure to identify to which audience, and identify at least 5 detailed techniques or strategies for managing stress and anxiety.

• This presentation can be in any medium you choose. This could be a brochure, pamphlet, handout, video, or slideshow. Get creative!

2. Save your completed project to your computer and submit it via Submit Assignment button at the top of the page. Once the submission tool appears at the bottom of this page, upload the required files. Be sure to review your work before submitting to ensure the entire document is viewable.

• Refer to this Stress Management Silly Sample.pdf as a guide for completing this assignment.

Grading

This assignment is worth 50 points toward your course grade.

Rubric

Stress Management Assignment

Stress Management Assignment

Criteria	Ratings	Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAudience	10.0 pts Identified audience. 0.0 pts Did not identify audience.	10.0 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStress Management Techniques/Strategies	40.0 to >32.0 pts Indicated five detailed strategies/techniques. 32.0 to >24.0 pts Indicated four detailed strategies/techniques. 24.0 to >16.0 pts Indicated three detailed strategies/techniques. 16.0 to >8.0 pts Indicated two detailed strategies/techniques. 8.0 to >0.0 pts Indicated one detailed strategy/technique. 0.0 pts Did not indicate any strategies/techniques.	40.0 pts
Total Points: 50.0