Description
Instructions
Imagine that you were asked to develop a pamphlet about stress management, resilience, Grit, and having a growth mindset for individuals with serious medical issues and their families. Your pamphlet should address the following:
Determine the physical and psychological impacts of stress.
Explain resilience, GRIT, and having a growth mindset. Indicate the benefits of each, providing examples to support your findings.
Contribute strategies to effectively cope with stress and learn to be more resilient.
Make sure that your pamphlet incorporates at least two scholarly and two professional resources.
Your pamphlet should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate-level writing and APA standards.
Length: 4-pages, not including title and reference pages
References: Please see 2 attached articles.
About Stress Management, Resilience, Grit, and Growth Mindset
Stress management is experienced by everyone at some time in life. Americans seem to experience more stressors based on their lifestyle choices. These stressors can be overwhelming and increase one’s risk for a host of illnesses. In today’s society, everyone seems rushed and hurried to complete one task and move to the next. This frenetic lifestyle may decrease the quality of life and add to the level of daily stress. How can we mitigate those risks? Other risks may include natural disasters, military experiences, a serious illness like cancer, and mental illness.
In face of these risks, resilience is the ability to thrive and even flourish during a crisis. For those that experience trauma, using their strengths to recover provides for the possibility for post-traumatic growth. Recently, researchers in neurobiology have demonstrated how trauma can have an effect on development at the molecular level, placing people at risk for depression, PTSD, and other maladies. As the brain can produce these risks for depression, it has the capacity for positive change because of plasticity. Researchers are looking to identify how and when stress and trauma impact development of the emotional regulation system during childhood to mitigate those risks by early intervention strategies (Pena et al., 2017).
Those who persevere when faced with challenges and adversity seem to embody what Angela Duckworth calls grit. Grit is the ability to push through any challenge and not give up. Someone that fails at a task continues to persevere until they master that task. Carol Dweck of Stanford University has studied growth mindset and asserts that having a fixed belief that failure is permanent often prevents students from academic success. Here is where grit can improve one’s well-being. Duckworth has concluded that grit could be developed by developing or enhancing a growth mindset. Growth mindset is having the belief that when a challenge is faced, instead of giving up and thinking, “I cannot do this, I can never understand,” they think, “I can get this by figuring out how, asking for help, or I have not yet mastered the task, but will with help.”
Reference:
Pena, C. J., Kronman, H. G., Walker, D. M., Cates, H. M., Bagot, R. C… Nestler, E. J. (2017). Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility in mice via ventral tegmental area OTX2. Science, 356(6343), 1185-1188. doi: 10.1126/science.aan4491. Retrieved from http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/16_june_2017?pg=123#pg123
