Description

Assessment Description

The purpose of this assignment is to create an informative and engaging education resource tailored to a specific audience. This project aims to address the chosen audience’s unique needs and concerns while comprehensively exploring the multiple aspects of stress and its impact on physical and mental health.

After reading Chapters 3, 4 and 5 in the textbook, you will create either a newsletter, poster, or brochure in which you comprehensively explain the following:

1. Identify and discuss the origins of stress and how stress affects people (i.e., financial, school, work, relationships).
2. Identify the risks of stress on an individual’s health. What are the biopsychosocial effects of stress on the body (include both short- and long-term effects)? What factors put someone at risk for stress and disease?
3. Discuss at least three ways an individual can manage and cope with
4. What networks, groups or local resources are available for support (i.e., places of worship, family, friends, counselor)?

Choose an appropriate audience to address in your project (examples include a traditional college student, an online college student, a military veteran). Make sure that your project incorporates information that clearly relates to and targets your chosen audience.

Use two or three current scholarly resources in your project. Your textbook and scholarly internet sources are acceptable.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.