Case Study: University Students - Managing Stress and Mental Health

This case study report examines the impact of poor stress management on university students' learning, health, and well-being. It highlights the various factors contributing to stress, such as academic pressure and lifestyle changes, and their potential consequences, including anxiety and depression. The report discusses effective strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and nervousness, including adopting a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and a balanced diet, improving organizational skills and time management, prioritizing sleep, pursuing hobbies, developing communication and leadership skills, and practicing positive affirmations. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of time management and task prioritization, recommending students divide tasks into smaller, manageable segments to reduce stress. Desklib provides access to this case study and other resources to support students' academic success.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Assessment 2:Individual Case study Report ...................................................................................3
Topic of case study: .......................................................................................................................3
Conclusion/ Recommendations.......................................................................................................5
References .......................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Mental stress is said to be the main hurdle in the life of student and there are multiple
reason linked with it such as finance, coursework, sleep disorder, health issues and many others.
The project will outline the structure of case study report with the topic on “Poor stress
management in the life of students” (Tollefson and et. al., 2018). The report will demonstrate the
ways in which the stress can be reduced and bring happiness in the life of students. Also, there
are various recommendations which are beneficial for the students in order to relieve the
pressure.
Assessment 2:Individual Case study Report
Topic of case study:
Poor stress management can affect the life and mental state of students in their learning,
health and well-being. Discuss the effective means of managing stress, feeling anxious, or
nervous for university students.
For most people, mental health issues take place when they are at school or university that is why
mental health is a main issue for all the learners in their learning and achievement. University
stress impact the students of all backgrounds and stress tends to lead to major issues such as
anxiety, depression, headaches and health issues (Nguyen-Feng, Romano and Frazier, 2019).
Academic performance can cause stress levels to rise and when students go to university their
whole life change. One of the main reason of stress in life of students are academic pressure and
its performance which can badly affect mental health. If such stress is not managed then it will
lead to bring anxiety and depression that declines their health, life and mental state of students.
Stress has huge impact on all human beings and mainly in life of student This stress can be
utilised for good and to live a better life. That is why, students should learn how to deal with
stress and such situations in proper way and stress has wide effects on mood, behaviour and
emotion (Delgado, Toukonen and Wheeler, 2018).
Discuss the effective means of managing stress, feeling anxious, or nervous for university
students.
Everyone deals with some kind of stress everyday and due to this they face many symptoms like
Most of the students have to face major problems due to stress such as issues in health,
performance, happiness and many others. Stress is one of the reason which affects the sleep

pattern, exercise and diet schedule of the students. As there are many reason for stress such as
social challenges, homework, relationship, families, less sleep and many others. There are
several tricks and ways to deal and manage stress in order to reduce the feeling of nervousness
and anxiousness for the university students. Such ways are explained below to avoid such ways
which can cause stress to students -
 Students should shift their focus on a healthy lifestyle because it will enhance the overall
abilities of the students. Exercises are an effective factor in managing stress and any
physical activity is responsible for improving the blood flow.
 The students should learn the ways to be more organised , due to this the level of stress
will be reduced and they will be able to set the goals by prioritizing the tasks. This allows
the students and learners to establish a routine with better time management for aiming
high into their required segments (Bistricky and et. al., 2018).
 For living a healthy lifestyle, the students should eat healthy which bring numerous
reason of health benefit. Such as it will improve the mood of students and less stress.
 The students should also take care of their sleep routine as sleep is directly linked with
better mood and sleep is a stress reducer which allows the students to be more focused
and be in better mood. As lack of sleep, reduces the level of energy and clarity of
thoughts in mind.
 The students should also pursue a new hobby so that there stress will be minimized such
as gardening, reading books, painting, games, physical activity or writing. The lifestyle
of students are stressful and that is why it is important to take time to do something the
student like.
 They also develop various skills such as time management skills, leaderships skills,
communication skills so that they can have better access in communicating with others
in an efficient manner. Also, the students can also learn to manage themselves by doing
various tasks on their own (Bhargava and Trivedi, 2018).
 Using positive affirmations and thinking is also a good option to reduce stress so that
they can have better experience, situations, health and life. The students should train their
mind to do positive self talk which will bring bright future and stress free life.

Conclusion/ Recommendations
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that the life of the students can be stressful
as there are various reasons for that like workload, mental pressure, homework, poor academic
achievement, lack of support and many others. There are various ways to deal with the stress
issue that is why this report will be helpful in reducing the issues. Recommendations for the
students are given below-
 They should manage the time wisely so that they do important tasks which save the
students to face level of stress in managing the important tasks.
 They should fix a time schedule for study by dividing the tasks into smaller one for better
accomplishment of work.

References
Books and Journals
Bhargava, D. and Trivedi, H., 2018. A study of causes of stress and stress management among
youth. IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences, 11(03), pp.108-117.
Bistricky, S.L., Harper, K.L., Roberts, C.M., Cook, D.M., Schield, S.L., Bui, J. and Short, M.B.,
2018. Understanding and promoting stress management practices among college
students through an integrated health behavior model. American Journal of Health
Education, 49(1), pp.12-27.
Delgado, C., Toukonen, M. and Wheeler, C., 2018. Effect of canine play interventions as a stress
reduction strategy in college students. Nurse educator, 43(3), pp.149-153.
Nguyen-Feng, V.N., Romano, F.N. and Frazier, P., 2019. Emotional abuse moderates efficacy of
an ecological momentary stress management intervention for college
students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66(4), p.461.
Tollefson, M., Kite, B., Matuszewicz, E., Dore, A. and Heiss, C., 2018. Effectiveness of student-
led stress reduction activities in the undergraduate classroom on perceived student
stress. College Student Journal, 52(4), pp.505-515.