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COPING
WITH
STRESS
HEALTH CHECK
S-T-E-P-S out of Stress
Teens must develop skills in managing their stress.
Stress will come and go, and an individual must learn
and develop coping mechanisms to deal with them. In
this activity, you will describe the S-T-E-P-S or the five
things you can do to deal with stress.

Materials
Pen
Paper
Procedure

•1. Using the diagram below, describe the

coping mechanism you do to deal with
stress.
•2. Make an acronym on the 5 S-T-E-P-S that
describe your coping mechanism.
Coping
• a conscious effort and energy to solve problems.
Adolescence deal with more painstaking stress as they go
through more complex situations. Dealing with stress seek to
master, minimize, or tolerate stress and stressors that occur
in everyday life.

• These mechanisms are commonly called coping skills or

coping strategies​. These aims to reduce or deal with stress,
however, some of them can be ​maladaptive ​or unhealthy.
M ALAD APTIV E
• attitude is the practice of an individual that inhibits his ability
to adjust to a particular situation exceptionally with changes
and problems. These type of coping behavior can decrease
an individual’s tension, yet, it can become flawed and
unproductive. People can deal with stress, although more
people prefer to go proactive in dealing with stress by
eliminating or averting stressors before they occur. There are
several coping strategies that one can employ to manage and
deal with stress and stressors in his life but listed are the
three most distinct strategies.
 APPRAISED- FOCUSED STRATEGIES

•This coping mechanism shifts the thinking process

associated with stress. An individual tries to think
differently and challenge his previous assumptions. For
teens, they find this applicable by distancing
themselves from the stressors. Laughing off the
situation to bring positive spin from them is another
way teens do it. Also, they adjust their goals and values
to solve the problems and cope with stress.
PROBLEM-FOCUSEDSTRATEGIES
•These strategies deal with the causes of stress or
stressors. One can educate himself to become
familiar with the issue or problem and learn new
skills. These skills help to deal and manage the
problems and stress. A teen can learn and
acquire a time management technique to solve
his issues with having a balance between
schoolwork and personal time.
EMOTION-FOCUSEDSTRATEGIES
•These are directed to reduce the emotional
reaction towards stress and its stressors. The
person alters his feelings towards stress by
releasing, distracting, or managing their psyche.
Teens can seek social support to release their
emotion. They also involve themselves in
relaxing activities to counter their stress and
negative feelings.
ADAPTIVE vs.M
ALADAPTIVE
STRATEGIES
•Not all coping strategies are healthful,
some of them are also unhealthful.
Coping strategies that are healthful are
referred to as Adaptive Strategies​, while
those that are unhealthful are
called ​Maladaptive Strategies.
•Adaptive strategies are used when someone
reduces the amount of stress and completely
gain something useful from problematic
situations. The gain could be constructive
feedback that can help the person improve
himself. Seeking support from others (​social
coping​) and learning something from the
problems (​meaning-focused strategy​) are some
examples of adaptive strategies. This strategy is
characterized by an individual that maintains
good physical and mental health.
• On the other hand, maladaptive strategies can
successfully recede stress, but the result is
dysfunctional and unproductive. They are quick but
temporary remedy on the problem, which interferes
in a person’s ability to take apart the association
between the stressor and its symptoms. These
strategies can provide short-term relief, but the
problem is not solved nor managed. Numbing out can
be used especially by teens to ignore the problem, but
it cannot make the problem disappear or be settled.
Some even try to escape from the problem and others
abuse themselves by doing vices that harm their body.
 COPING
WITHDYING
ANDDEATH
•Aside from the common stressors
brought about by the experiences and
situations of the changes that happen in
an individual during puberty, death,
dying, and grief can also affect
everyone. It is one of the most difficult
and painful moments in an individual’s
journey in life.
• Death is the permanent end of the physical being of
any biological organism. It can be caused by an illness,
aging, or an accident. It is an irreversible stage in an
organism’s life that must be learned to accept.
• Dying is related to death as it is the process or
transition as someone is near to death. Both can bring
difficult experience to the dying person and his loved
ones. It brings grief​, the emotional suffering caused by
loss, disaster, misfortune, and death, particularly to
the surviving relatives and friends of an individual. In
this lesson, you will understand the importance of
grieving and the ways to cope with death and dying.
• Grieving is frequently associated with death. But based on its
definition, it is also the suffering due to loss, disaster, and
misfortune: people who had experienced an earthquake,
typhoons, tsunamis, storm surges, and other natural
disasters. Their grief might come from the loss of their
property and other valuable possessions. An individual may
also grief for a misfortune such as getting robbed, failure in
an examination, or losing significant things. Separation from
friends and conflict with others are grievous experiences
people can undergo. Grieving is not a sign that a person is
weak. It is healthy and helpful for an individual to become a
stronger and better person. The experience teaches valuable
lessons in life like contentment and valuing the people and
things you have now.
•According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, she
described the coping process with dying
and death using DABDA model​. DABDA
stands for D​enial​, A​nger​, B​argaining​,
D​epression​, and A​cceptance​. This model
is not a step-by-step process as anyone
can go through it in any order and it
does not necessarily mean that one
should undergo each stage.
DABD A
M odel
D
ENIAL

•The stage of shock as someone

subconsciously disagree with the thought of
dying and death. This is a short stage as it
helps the individual to accept the sad news
and deal with it.
ANGER
•An individual may question the reality of a
situation. He may feel bitter as his plans and
dreams are dampened to the reality of death.
This frustration is often directed to his
surroundings negatively affecting his loved ones
like family, friends, and peers. To help ease and
minimize anger, one must be able to identify
the source of anger to help himself deal with it.
BARGAINING
•This is the stage when someone clings
on an irrational hope or miracle to
happen. People whose experiencing
this stage will quickly realize that their
hopes are not going to happen and will
lead them to acceptance of the given
faith.
D
EPRESSION

•When it becomes clear that dying and

death is happening, some people
experience depression. This can happen
even before the death of their loved
ones as they prepare themselves in the
future when their loved ones are gone.
ACCEPTANCE

•The stage of arriving at a peaceful

resolution that death would come and a
quiet expectation on its arrival. If a
person dying can accept his death, he
will most likely to have a peaceful death.
•Death is inevitable. Living life to the
fullest and having no room for
regrets can help an individual easily
accept it. Having a positive outlook
in life and being surrounded with
the help and love of loved ones can
fulfill an individual’s life with
contentment.
OTHER WAYS TO COPE WITH
THEDEATH OF LOVEDONES
• 1. Joining rituals, like memorial services and funeral, can help an
individual to deal with and accept the death of their loved ones.
• 2. Express and release your emotions as this process will eventually
make you feel better over time.
• 3. Talk about it when you can as it helps you release negativity and
feel ok in the process.
• 4. Preserve memories of your loved ones like remembering their
birthday.
• 5. Join support groups where you can find others who share the same
situation as yours.