What is stress management?
Stress management encompasses techniques intended to equip a person with effective coping mechanisms for dealing with psychological stress response. Stress management is effective when a person utilizes strategies to cope with or alter stressful situations. To effectively manage stress, you may need to make emotional and physical changes. The degree of the stress and the desire to make the changes will determine the level of change that will take place. What factors into stress management? There are three main factors attitude, physical well-being and time management. • Attitude. The attitude of an individual can influence whether a situation or emotion is stressful. Having a negative attitude can predict stress in a person, because this type of person will often report more stress than would someone with a positive attitude. Most people think that stress is something that just happened to them. But another way of looking at stress would be as something in you, something that depends o