Health, Stress and Coping: Strategies to Resolve Stress

This article discusses the concept of stress and coping strategies to resolve it. It includes an evaluation of overall stress score using the Holmes & Rahe stress scale and finding out the main stressor in your life. It also provides coping strategies to reduce stress. The article includes references from various journals and books.

Health, stress and
coping

Table of Contents
Question and answers......................................................................................................................1
Task B..............................................................................................................................................1
1: Concept of stress and coping..............................................................................................1
2: Coping strategies that are used to resolve stress................................................................1
3: Holmes & Rahe stress scale, what was your overall stress................................................1
4: Overall stress score and level/category of stress as indicated by the online assessment and
comment on its accuracy........................................................................................................2
5: Main stressor in your life – was it part of the Holmes and Rahe scale and Coping strategy,
you are currently using to reduce the main stressor in your life............................................2
Task C..............................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Question and answers
Task B
1: Concept of stress and coping
Stress is usually defined as the type of change that causes based on the physical, emotional
or the psychological strain. In addition to this, the body used to show the response which is based
on the attention and action. The cooping is defined as the action which is directed which is
directed at the resolution or the fact of mitigation that is based on problematic situation and
condition (Afshari and et. al., 2018).
2: Coping strategies that are used to resolve stress
In this, there are various of type of strategies which is focus on the resolving of stress that
associated with the individual. The inappropriate way is eating healthy, exercise, get not enough
sleep and give break. In addition to this, the five main aspect which is focus on the
conceptualisation that provide five general type of coping strategies which is problem focused,
emotional focus, social support, religious coping and meaning making (Jones and et. al., 2020).
3: Holmes & Rahe stress scale, what was your overall stress
Figure 1 using Holmes and Rahe stress scale
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While using the Holmes and Rahe scale stress the scale, it shows high risk which is associated
with future concern which may create issue with becoming ill due to the aspect which is happen
and mark yes in the stress scale. Moreover, it is also analysing that the people with the such
factor also show the aspect of being stress in the future. While taking the contrast of myself, it
may create issue with the stress and ill condition which is occur in future (Marcdante and et. al.,
2020).
4: Overall stress score and level/category of stress as indicated by the online assessment and
comment on its accuracy
In addition to this, from the Holmes and Rahe stress scale the major stressor which faced is
change in the health of family member. It is well evaluate that the family provide support and
care all the time in the difficult situation, it is also shown that due to the health impact which is
occur within family may create issue with the individual mental state. During the working hours,
they always think about the family member who is used to facing the issue of ill. So, the major
stressor which is observed from the scale is change in the health of family member in the
negative way (Subedi and et. al., 2020).
5: Main stressor in your life – was it part of the Holmes and Rahe scale and Coping strategy, you
are currently using to reduce the main stressor in your life
In this, in order to resolve such stress, the problem focus and emotional focus is most
reliable. In addition, the family member requires emotional support to motivate them and inspire
to make feel well and take approach which is reliable to provide positive health outcome and
problem focused provide aspect to find the way to deal with the impact which associated with the
health. Moreover, the emotional and social support is important factor to deal with the such stress
in life (Tanwer, 2018).
Task C
Concept of stress is generally involving alterations which can cause any emotional, physical
as well as psychological strain. It is a response of body towards anything which can need specific
attention or actions. In an individual's life, it can be some challenging situation with controllable
experience and this can depend only upon what is happening in individual's life such as other
things are positive or stable. Stress can be called as stress if individual's life is full of challenging
from every aspect such as they are having problems from every side like their jobs are not
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running well, having financial issues or it can be health issues (Tao & et. al., 2021). In addition,
stress can also be occurring if individual's does not able to cope with specific challenging
situations such as not able to handle particular work at workplace or things that annoy the most,
can affect their well-being or mental ability can contribute towards stress. All these things can
make an individual's life more stressful. In order to determine the level of stress, The Social
Readjustment Rating Scale was designed. It is generally a self-assessment tool used for
determining the level of stress in individual's life. Through assessing scale, it can effectively
measure level of stress by assigning various life change units towards life events which can
typically need some alterations consisting some positive events also (Wang & et. al., 2021).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Afshari and et. al., 2018. Discriminative Role of stressor life events, resilience and alexithymia in
women addiction. Journal of Psychological Studies, 14(2), pp.109-124.
Jones and et. al., 2020. The Influence that Life Stress and Occupational Stress Have on Decision-
Making Styles (Doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University).
Marcdante and et. al., 2020. Preparing for the Transition to Your Next Career Role. Journal of
graduate medical education, 12(1), pp.109-110.
Subedi and et. al., 2020. Relationship Between Stressful Life Events And Depression. Journal of
Psychiatrists' Association of Nepal, 9(2), pp.64-68.
Tanwer, S., 2018. Yoga and stress management. Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research
(AJMR), 7(9), pp.345-348.
Tao, C. & et. al., (2021). Stressful life events can predict post stroke fatigue in patients with
ischemic stroke. European Journal of Neurology.
Wang, Y. & et. al., (2021). Mediation on the association between stressful life events and
depression by abnormal white matter micro-structures. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive
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