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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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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

  1. Identify the everyday stressors that occur regularly in adult life (e.g. financial trouble, relationship worries, workload, children)
  2. 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

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This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

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3 Questions

Q1.
A panic attack is a feeling of sudden and intense anxiety. Is this true or false?

False
Correct answer: True

Q2.
What does CBT stand for?

Cognitive Behaving Therapies
Correct answer: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Condition Behavioural Therapy
Coordinating Behavioural Therapy

Q3.
What does being a successful person mean?

Correct answer: All of the above
Confident and happy
Having a job they enjoy
Having good time management
Positive mental health

Assessment exit quiz

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5 Questions

Q1.
Negate is a way of making something ____________

Effective
Correct answer: Ineffective

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
Correct answer: Yes

Q3.
Lifestyle traits cannot be changed.

Correct answer: False
True

Q4.
Which of these is NOT a helpful lifestyle trait?

Challenging unhelpful thoughts
Good time management
Healthy diet and exercise
Correct answer: Isolating yourself

Q5.
Stressors are expected or ___________ challenges we face in everyday life. Which word is missing from this definition?

Correct answer: unexpected
unwelcome
welcome

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UnitRSHE (PSHE) / Mental wellbeing: Recognising problems and seeking support

RSHE (PSHE)

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