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Stress is a common factor in the lives of every individual, notwithstanding of what each other’s race or even cultural background (Garrett, 2001). If stress and anxiety is present for a long time, it may be very difficult to cope with or even a health risk. Stress may become dangerous when it doesn’t allow yourself to preform your daily needs like you usually do. There are many ways in how to cope with stress and everyone deals with it to the best of their ability. As the academic expectation…

unwanted liabilities is the Occupational stress which has grasped the attention of many over the past few decades. Stress at work is seen as a major cost by organization because it affects employee performance, notably through absenteeism and presenteeism (the practice of attending work even when employees feel too ill to be able to work effectively). Performance if defined can be understood as the ability to perform, in other words “Efficiency”. More concisely, Stress can be defined as a state…

Heat and cold stress are very serious matters in the workplace. Both can be very dangerous and life threatening. There is potential for short term and long-term damage to your body involving both conditions. There are many warning signs your body can give you to notice whether you are being affected by heat or cold stress. Many workers suffer from heat and cold stress when most of the problems could be prevented. Cold stress can occur with many outdoor jobs. Some jobs could include snow…

When a person experiences major conflicts in their life, those conflicts can cause the person to change in many different ways. Each person can change in dramatically different ways. For example, some of the ways people could respond to their conflicts are becoming violent, trying to make the world around them better, or they could just give up. The idea that conflicts can change people is shown frequently by George in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Nancy in the documentary War…

Stress comes from many different things that cause problematic situations in one’s life. Stress is the way human beings react both physically and mentally to changes, events, and situations in their lives. By hearing the word "stress" most people believe of something negative and unpleasant. Some people are continuously under stress, that they assume the feeling is approximately normal. Stress will always occur within one’s mind, it is a natural part of life. Different people can handle…

human life, bad circumstances can have a sound ending. Thus, all of us faces several times critical situations in our lives. At those critical momentums of open scenarios, pragmatic and efficient actions could become challenges. Having to face a stress like a quarrel with someone, presenting tardy meetings, passed due work, taking a new job, or in the worse time be fired, facing to bankruptcy, and so one, can leads to a big(s) trouble(s). The fear of the unknown future consequences could…

Stress is the greatest burden every nation encounters. There is hardly a day without stories of death rising from the economy stress. It is one of the biggest health problems people are facing today, each person experiences stress on a day to day basis. Stress affects each of us in a different way or form. It tempers with the health of man, it is a destroyer of destiny. Stress is a strain on your mental, emotional and physical being, simply by causing pressure in your life, especially when…

In order to not become a victim of work-related stress, social workers must participate in self-care. According to Kirst-Ashman and Hull (2015), “A great concern in social work practice is burnout, a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that results from constant or repeated emotional pressure associated with an intense, long-term involvement with people” (pp. 517). Therefore, it is important for social workers to manage their stress by finding various ways to either reduce or…

Originally described by Hans Selye (1907–1982), an Austrian-born physician who emigrated to Canada in 1939, the general adaptation syndrome represents a three-stage reaction to stress. Selye explained his choice of terminology as follows: "I call this syndrome general because it is produced only by agents which have a general effect upon large portions of the body. I call it adaptive because it stimulates defense…. I call it a syndrome because its individual manifestations are coordinated and…

Stress is something that everyone must cope with at some point in their life. In this case, we see that a friend has lost his job which was helping cover tuition costs. This is a one of the biggest stressors that a student must cope with in post secondary education. Today, I will be talking about Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive theory of stress and how this individual may potentially react to this incident. Lazarus and Folkman developed the cognitive theory of stress which highly focuses on…