Personal Development K to 12 Program

1. Coping with Stress in Middle and
Late Adolescence
Josefino Tulabing Larena, AB,CPS,CPE,MPA

2. Learning Objectives
• 1. Discuss that understanding stress and its
sources during adolescence may help in
identifying ways to cope and have a healthy
life.
• 2. Identify sources of one’s stress and illustrate
the effects of stress on one’s system.
• 3.Demonstrate personal way of coping with
stress for healthful living

3. Stress
• Stress is simply a reaction
to a stimulus that disturbs
our physical or mental
equilibrium. In other
words, it's an omnipresent
part of life.
A stressful event can
trigger the “fight-or-flight”
response, causing
hormones such as
adrenaline and cortisol to
surge through the body.

4. Stress as Stimulus,Response and
Relational
• Aside from being a reaction( or response)
Stress is also a stimulus as well as a relational
condition between persons and the situations
they are in ( Feist and Rosenberg 2012).
• Stress as a response is the way the body reacts
to challenging situations. This involves the
interactions between the hormones, glands
and nervous system where the adrenal gland
drives the production of cortisol or better
known as “Stress hormone”

5. Health Stress
• Stressors have a major
influence upon mood, our
sense of well-being, behavior,
and health. Acute stress
responses in young, healthy
individuals may be adaptive
and typically do not impose a
health burden. However, if the
threat is unremitting,
particularly in older or
unhealthy individuals, the
long-term effects of stressors
can damage health.

6. School Demands and Expectations
• Quizzes and Tests
,homework and
projects,oral
recitation,quartely
and final exams and
grades most
especially ,epitomize
the kind of stressors
adolescents have
when it comes to
studying.

7. Selecting a school,College Course or
Career

8. Separation Anxiety

9. College life

10. Romantic Relationship or the lack of it

11. Family Demands and Expectations

12. Health Concerns

13. Demands of Social life

14. Bullying

15. Coping may also be a combination of
both problem focused and emotional-
focused remedies

16. 9 Reasons Why You're 'Bagsak‘ in school

17. Nobody wants to fail...
• Young people don’t plan to fail in college. Yet
for some reason, many parents and students
ask the same question. Why do young people
fail in school?

18. 1. Wrong Priorities (puro ka love life)

19. 2. You go to school for the wrong
reasons and selected the wrong
major/ degree

20. 3. Your skills does not match your
chosen major/degree

21. 4. You cannot assume
responsibility (puro ka puyat, then
matutulog sa school)

22. 5. Family problems

23. 6. Procrastination

24. 7. Poor attendance

25. 8. Poor time management

26. 9. Willingness to pursue field of study

28. Caritas Christi Urget Nos