Stress impacts our physical and mental health. This assignment will look at the impact of stress on both our physical and mental health, ways you can advise clients to help reduce stress and its impact, and to examine the impact of stress on yourself. In psychology, reducing stress is a big part of healing, so it is important that we understand it.
Instructions:
(1) Discuss at least two examples of behaviors that can lead to physical health issues and disease.
– Examine ways you could advise your clients to start to change these
behavioral patterns.
(2) Describe how the experience of stress can impact psychological disorders.
(3) Explore how stress has impacted your own mental and physical health.
– Apply the ideas, terms, and concepts from this week to your own
experience.
