Your Choice: Stress

Your Choice CD Roms are a complete, easy-to-use course of PSHE activities and strategies, with accompanying photocopiable master worksheets. It is designed for Personal and Social Skills lessons or active tutorial work, based on experiential learning methods. The exercises are flexible enough to be dipped into as a component of a Health Education, Religious Education, or English course.

For young people Your Choice provides a secure and stimulating framework within which they can consider their attitudes and behaviour, and develop more mature insights into their own personalities and their interaction with others.

Each handbook represents about a term's work on a specific aspect of personal skills development and each chapter provides a structures lesson plan, and suggestions for further work.

Stress helps students to understand the nature and causes of stress and to develop techniques for managing stress effectively. The importance of a healthy lifestyle, assertion, and effective time management are emphasised. Students learn to recognise the types of stress which can be avoided and those which need to be managed.

Authors Shay & Margaret McConnon spent 15 years in special education, teaching young people who had emotional and behavioural difficulties. They developed programmes to enhance the self-worth of these students and to improve their social skills. The Your Choice books are best sellers in their field and continue to form the basis for many PSHE programmes across the English-speaking world.

'Your Choice Series is a valuable resource, which can be used with flexibility – large chunks or single activities can be used with equal success'
Tracy Hollyhead, Social Inclusion Facilitator, Telford & Wrekin Council Sensory Inclusion Service.

Chapter Breakdown

1 People and Stress
2 Stress Can Lead To…
3 What Works?
4 Stay Healthy!
5 Assert Yourself!
6 Organise Yourself
7 See It Differently
8 Real Friends
9 Relax!
10 Stress In My Life
11 Reduce Stress!
12 What Now?
13 Less Stress
14 How Have We Got On?