Year 11
Everyday stressors and triggers in adult life
This lesson will focus on identifying potential everyday stressors in adult life and choosing healthy lifestyle traits to negate these. This lesson covers issues about mental health. If this is a sensitive topic to you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.
Year 11
Everyday stressors and triggers in adult life
This lesson will focus on identifying potential everyday stressors in adult life and choosing healthy lifestyle traits to negate these. This lesson covers issues about mental health. If this is a sensitive topic to you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Identify the everyday stressors that occur regularly in adult life (e.g. financial trouble, relationship worries, workload, children)
- Identify possible lifestyle traits that may help avoid/negate everyday stressors contributing to more serious mental health concerns
Content guidance
- Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.
Supervision
Adult supervision suggested
Licence
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3 Questions
Q1.
A panic attack is a feeling of sudden and intense anxiety. Is this true or false?
False
Q2.
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behaving Therapies
Condition Behavioural Therapy
Coordinating Behavioural Therapy
Q3.
What does being a successful person mean?
Confident and happy
Having a job they enjoy
Having good time management
Positive mental health
5 Questions
Q1.
Negate is a way of making something ____________
Effective
Q2.
Moving house, financial worries, childcare issues and having a heavy workload are all examples of everyday stressors. Will these happen to most of us at some point in our life?
No
Q3.
Lifestyle traits cannot be changed.
True
Q4.
Which of these is NOT a helpful lifestyle trait?
Challenging unhelpful thoughts
Good time management
Healthy diet and exercise
Q5.
Stressors are expected or ___________ challenges we face in everyday life. Which word is missing from this definition?
unwelcome
welcome