Life Stress and Coping Styles

• Select one stressful event in your life. Now, discuss how psychosocial stressors related to this event can interact with your behavioral risk factors and how this, in turn, can lead to chronic health problems. 
• Note: This response may include information from your personal life, discussion about your friends’ or family members’ lives, or examples from life in general. FYI. I would prefer you use examples from life in general than to make it so personal. 

• Identify which of the categories in the different classifications of coping strategies best describes your coping style. Describe how you have used this coping style in recent months. Determine whether or not the coping style was effective. Justify your response.

Please use the following links to help you when completing this task:

• Read the article titled “Stress Management: How to Reduce, Prevent, and Cope with Stress,” located at http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_management_relief_coping.htm. 
• Read the article titled “How Do You Cope?” located at http://www.semel.ucla.edu/dual-diagnosis-program/News_and_Resources/How_Do_You_Cope.