STRESS MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT In this essay I will attempt to give a comprehensive description of stress, its nature and symptoms and look at its possible causes and effects. Where relevant I will relate these to situations I have experienced working in the field of social care. I will also look at two successful methods of coping with and relieving stress. Stress can be hard to define. The fact that stress (at appropriate levels) can be …showed first 75 words of 1171 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1171 total…physical threats. The fight or flight response to stress is ingrained in all of us and is still beneficial too us. In to-days society Individuals feel that stress is more being in a particular "state of mind". Fifty years ago studies were carried out mainly on the physical effects of stress. However, more and more people are becoming aware of the social and physiological effects of stress, not just the physical effect. WORD COUNT: 112O