Mental Health Web Quest                        

 

STRESS!!!

Introduction     Do you know someone who is stressed out? Are you constantly in a state of stress? What are some of the feelings a person under constant stress feels? How does the body react? What are ways to release the stress in a healthy way? What are some of the unhealthy ways people release stress? Stress levels are on the rise among adolescents for a variety of reasons - parents, friends, school, work, self, money, significant others - and it is having a telling effect on youth today. In this web quest you will research some of the causes of stress among adolescents, what stress does to the body, as well as ways to deal with the stress.

Task

You will become an expert about stress, what it does to the body, and stress management techniques that work. You wil;l also become familiar with negative ways to deal with stress and why they are not healthy manners in which to do so. 

Become familiar with the types of stress that student encounter on a daily basis, including, but not limited to:
   

academic pressure 

pressure to fit in with a particular group by adopting their fashion or lifestyle

peer pressure to try drugs or alcohol

relationships

conflicts with parents or siblings

violence/bullying

schedule overload

testssports / extra-curricular activities

            Getting into college

-Process

1. You will create and perform a 10 slide minimum PowerPoint presentation that illlustrates a stressful or anxiety-inducing situation and provide strategies for coping with the situation.
2. You may work in groups of up to two - no more. Students will select one of the topics (see above) that have been/will be discussed in class. Each group will create a presentation that describes their chosen issue and provide a minimum of three ways to cope with the situation in a healthy emotional and/or physical manner and a minimum of  three coping strategies that might produce negative results.

    

   The following web sites have useful information about teenage stress, anxiety, and depression. They are a good starting point for exploring this topic (you may use a search engine such as Google or Yahoo or find information as well):

    http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/youthdevelopment/DA3083.html

   http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/oes-bsu-02/teens_e.html 
   http://www.uihealthcare.org/Adam/?/hie%20multimedia/1/002393

   http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&query=stress

   http://www.lifespan.org/SiteSearch/SiteSearch.asp?perPage=10&layout_SearchField=teen%20stress&type=Any%20Words&catCode=OTH

   http://www.stressfreekids.com/resources-2/teen-anxiety

   Published by Discovery Education. © 2005. All rights reserved. Reality Matters: Stress and Anxiety Teacher’s Guide 3

3. Students should include the following information in their PowerpPoint:

• Prediction of outcome or resolution based on coping strategies (positive and negative).