Discussion Question: Stress has not only become a way of life, but it has also become a sometimes-welcomed friend. Add it to your college, job, family, and you have the potential for continual stress.

Discussion Question:

Stress has not only become a way of life, but it has also become a sometimes-welcomed friend. Add it to your college, job, family, and you have the potential for continual stress. Understanding that stress is a part of life and cannot be avoided, strategies must be developed to facilitate adaptation.

Discussion Questions:

1-What is your definition of stress?

2-What are the phycological and physiological indicators of stress?

3-Identify a personal situation you found highly stressful?

4-Which techniques can be used to manage or reduce stress?

Note: You are to submit your answers in the Discussion Board and to reply to two peers. Support your responses with at least 2 peer-reviewed references within 5 years of publication. All responses must be in a narrative format and each paragraph must have at least 4 sentences. 

Grading Criteria

 Your answer to the discussion question should be supported with research, examples or references to the literature, and personal experiences in order to be considered substantive. You must make an initial posting in order to view other threads to complete peer responses. If you submit a blank thread, you will earn a zero.

1. Respond to at least 2 postings of a classmate each week. Use the “reply” prompt to the entry to keep the discussion “threaded”. Points are also awarded for your substantive response to each peer (See grading rubric for point calculation).
2. All initial postings must be a minimum of 200 words.
3.  All peer responses must be a minimum of 150 words. Postings less than the required minimum will not earn any points. Greetings, signatures, and references are not part of the word count.
4. American Psychological Association (APA) edition 7 format must be used appropriately, citing a minimum of 2 references per initial posting and 1 reference per peer response. If APA formatting for references is not used correctly, no credit will be earned – both in the sections of the grading rubric requiring a minimum number of references and in the APA section. References that are not in APA do not count for any credit.