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Helping Kids Cope with Life's Stressors
Fundamental for Good Mental Health & Successful Learning PSA SuperConference, October 21, 2017
Life's Stressors Fundamental for Good Mental Health & Successful - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Life's Stressors Fundamental for Good Mental Health & Successful - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Helping Kids Cope with Life's Stressors Fundamental for Good Mental Health & Successful Learning PSA SuperConference, October 21, 2017 Lets Start with Why? We want to help children/youth recognize and deal with stress build
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Let’s Start with Why?
- We want to help children/youth
– recognize and deal with stress – build capacity for self regulation – enhance their health and learning – help teachers create a positive and calm classroom environment
- Reduce your own stress
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Our Learning Intentions
- Understand stress & its relationship to mental
health (and life in general!)
- Highlight promising approaches and resources
that can help people cope with life’s stressors & foster resiliency
- Support you in the related work you do with
your students, other professionals and parents
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The evidence tells us …
Creating health promoting environments that build connections Developing health literacy, including literacy about coping with life’s stressors.
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Take a look ….
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Stress 101 Re-Cap
- Stress can be harmful
- r toxic if it
- verwhelms our ability
to cope
- A consistent, caring
adult can make all the difference!
- The way we respond
to stress is not fixed -
- ur response can be
influenced by learning strategies
- What creates stress is
not so much the event that occurs, but the way in which we react to the event
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Stress Awareness
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Group 1: Stressors – what are they? Group 2: Signs and symptoms of stress? (body, mind,
feelings & behaviours)
Group 3: Strategies they use on their own? Group 4: Strategies that teachers and parents (et al) can use to support them?
For our young people …
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Managing Stress
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Resources spotlighted …
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Understanding & Managing Feelings
Child who can recognize, acknowledge and express their feelings appropriately tend to cope better with stress.
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Thinking Skills …
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Problem Solving
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Relaxation Strategies
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Relaxation Strategies
Stresslr Muscle Relaxation Activity
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Feeling Stressed? These can help!
www.stressstrategies.ca www.starlingminds.com
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What about parents?
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What if a child becomes “unglued”?
Keep calm and dig deeper ….
- Use a calm, gentle, firm voice (emotions
respond to the tone more than the words)
- Is it a typical response?
- What’s the reason they are upset?
- Is it the situation that needs attention – or is
the student is having challenges self- regulating and needs a little help?
- Help them apply the skills they’re learning (or
come back to this post the moment)
- Believe in them and be a coach!
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“We can not always
build the future for our youth, but we can build the youth for our future.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Keep in touch!
cindypandrew@psychologyfoundation.org meredith.deFreitas@cw.bc.ca