Emotion, Stress, and Health
Create a brochure that presents professional information about a stressor and how it impacts mental or physical health, recommending interventions supported by theory and/or research.
For this assessment, you look at ways that stress can impact health. You will choose one area of stress to better understand its impact on health and ways to intervene in it to improve health. You will create a brochure that outlines what you have found, including recommended interventions, and explain why and how these interventions can be effective.
Below are some ideas. You may choose one of these, but you are not required to select from this list—you might have another area you would like to explore.
Psychotropic medication and well-being.
Lack of self-care.
Poor nutrition on developmental or mental health.
Effects of insomnia.
Physical effects of drug abuse.
In your brochure, include the following:
1.Describe a common stressor and how it can impact physical or mental health.
*Use credible sources such as scholarly research articles or professional websites, such as Harvard Health, to support your description. Do not use blogs or other popular sources such as WebMD or Wikipedia.
2. Recommend ways to reduce the effects of the stressor.
*Look at interventions that have been tested and found to be effective in helping with the problem.
3. Support your ideas for reducing the stress with information from professional sources or scholarly research that provide evidence that the recommendations have been shown to reduce stress.
For example, if you recommend an intervention such as yoga to address self-care, provide scholarly research that shows that yoga can reduce stress.
Use the brochure template to format your brochure.
Make sure you address the following in the template:
1: Apply research findings from scholarly literature to current issues in the field of psychology.
*Apply professional or scholarly evidence to support the impact of a stressor on physical or mental health.
2: Apply psychology knowledge to promote mental health and well-being.
*Explain the impact of a stressor on physical or mental health.
*Recommend interventions to reduce the effects of an identified stressor, using scholarly or professional evidence to support recommendations.
3: Write using a clear purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
*Communicate clearly with appropriate purpose, organization, tone, and sentence structure.
*Use in-text citations that include author and year.
*Provide references that include author, year, and title.
