The Managing Your Stress Reflective Essay allows you to create a short, reflective essay which will allow you to demonstrate the variety of skills you have learned throughout this unit!

Goal

• Examine current stressors and how to effectively cope with or eliminate the sources of stress.
• Describe healthy ways of managing stress that fit your current lifestyle.
• Apply your knowledge of effective stress management techniques.

Instructions

Follow the steps below:

• Identify at least three things you currently do to cope with stress that aren’t working or aren’t good for you.
• Identify healthy replacements for each of them, and write yourself a “stress-relief prescription” that you plan to follow for one week. Try to include one stress management technique to use every day. At the end of the week, respond to the following prompts in a short, reflective essay (1–2 pages):
  • Which ineffective or unhealthy coping strategies did you set out to change and why?
  • Which stress-relief techniques did you try during the week? Were any of them new for you? Which ones were most effective?
  • How much do you think stress affects you in your current life at college? Do you feel like you have it under control or not? If not, what else might you do to reduce your stress level?

Part 1: Read

Consider the following case scenario:

Jeremy is a 23 year old male. He was recently fired from his job after testing positive for THC. For the past month he has been having marital problems and has been cheating on his wife. His wife has discovered his infidelity and today she has announced that she is leaving Jeremy. Jeremy’s parents are also frustrated with him. They are tired of his long-term THC use and have seen first-hand the problems that his THC usage have caused. Jeremy’s wife has asked him to leave, but his parents have declined to permit him live with them. Jeremy calls his wife and says that he’s, “ready to end it all.” The police arrive and transport Jeremy to the local crisis center. You are the Crisis worker assigned to help Jeremy.

Part 2: Reflect

For this part of the assignment, you will use your critical thinking skills and reflect upon the case scenario.

In a minimum of two-pages (not counting the title page and reference page) address the following:

Using a crisis model, describe how you will address Jeremy’s crisis.

Using credible sources, defend your recommendations.

What other models may be effective and why? Be specific. Give examples.

Read the two readings and watch the screening, then answer the four questions.

Reading:

1. Junhow Wei, “Dealing with Reality: Market demands, artistic integrity, and identity work in reality television production” (2012)

2. Tanner Mirrlees “Reality TV’s Low-Wage and No-Wage Work” (2015)

Screening: Unreal, season 1, episode 1 (2015) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jZ47dpVbBHcxtM7L7…

Please respond to the following four questions in full sentences. Each response should be around 100 words. When possible, make specific references to the original text or media object.

1. Discuss the first of the two readings you read. What were its main ideas? What did you find most interesting or otherwise notable about the article?

2. Discuss the second of the two readings you read. What were its main ideas? What did you find most interesting or otherwise notable about the article?

3. The scripted/fictional television series Unreal is about the production of a Bachelor-style reality TV show. What vision of reality TV production does the show present? What surprising or problematic practices does it suggest are happening behind the screen?

4. How does the representation of reality TV production in Unreal compare to the information you read in the articles? Why do you think the show chooses to represent production in this way?

This case study analysis will be related to my previous assignment, a policy brief (attached below), and will discuss the same policy I chose: China’s current three-child policy. I have also attached a Problem Definition Analysis Example paper. Please write accordingly.

Case Study Analysis

Type:                                       Analysis

Due Date:                                 To be submitted by 11:59pm on Wednesday 27 April on Canvas.

Weight:                                    30%

Maximum length:                     1,750 words (excluding bibliography and footnotes)

Task Description: Students will be required to write a 1,750-word policy analysis on the way the problem is presented. PLEASE NOTE: This is a normal essay where you analyse the policy elements outlined below. This is separate and unrelated to the policy brief.  

Task: In order to apply the concepts developed in this course, you will develop a 1,750-word analysis in response to the following question (below). Your answer must draw on relevant policy analysis concepts/ theories/issues in order to demonstrate an understanding of the case.

In the country of your choice, address the SAME issue which got onto the government’s agenda (at the national or sub-national level), identify and examine two key elements:

(a) the way in which the ‘problem’ was defined by public authorities,

(b) and explain why the problem was defined in this way.

Background

In this module we’ve learned that a condition like PTSD may have effects that range beyond those symptoms exhibited by the affected person and that with any physical or mental health condition our identities play a role in how symptoms manifest and in how amenable we are to treatment.

Instructions

Using only the material in this module, discuss how at least three different identities or statuses (e.g., sex, veteran, age) might interact to make a condition like PTSD either more complicated or perhaps more navigable (that is, harder or easier to live with and treat) and to affect family and loved ones. You may reference characters in ODAAT or you may think more generally. Your post should include responses to the following prompts in three paragraphs.

• Identify the three identities/statuses and define each of them.
• Describe how the three identities/statuses might interact to make a condition like PTSD more complicated or perhaps more navigable for the affected person.
• Describe how that same interaction of identities/statuses might affect family and loved ones.

Tips for Success

• For some ideas, go back to the “What We’ll Do in This Module” section and consider the examples I provided related to ODAAT.