TITLE OF THE SEMINAR: Stress Management

I. Background of the Seminar

A. Title of the Seminar
Stress Management
B. Speaker
Jessa Aira Marie B. Basit, RPm
C. Venue and Date
Audio Visual Room (AVR) CEAFA Building,
March 7, 2019
D. Objectives

II. Program and Highlights of Activities (Overview of the Seminar)

III.

Ms. Jessa Aira Marie B. Basit, RPm discussed about stress management and
CV and resume writing. Overall, the guest speaker presented well the topic and make
the seminar really interesting and lively because all of us can relate to the topic. Since
all of us students have our own different way of having a stress and sometimes we don’t
know the cause or the reason behind it and how we will handle this kind of situation.
The guest speaker started the introduction by asking the attendees on “what is
stress?” And she said according to the internet, “stress is your mind and body response
or reaction to a real or imagined threat, event or change.” She also added that stress
really do exist in the life of a person, that no one can’t feel of being not stress since it
is part of us. Furthermore she discussed about the two kinds of stress, the eustress which
is the positive stress and the distress which is the negative stress. A study from UP Los
Baños, last 2015 which entitled “stressor and stress responses of Filipino college
students” determining what is the main reasons why students are stress. According to
this study, workload due to subjects and time management where the main stressors
and the audience agreed to it. Moreover, she also presented the different sources of the
stress of a student which are the academic, time management, expectation, peer
pressure, relationship and financial. Additionally, she differentiate the stress, anxiety
and depression. Stress is a response to daily pressures or a threatening situation while
anxiety is a medical condition in which you always feel frightened and worried and
depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you
feel, the way you think and how you act. But then, how to manage stress? There are
some things that an individual should always remember this includes the following:
know what the cause of your stress, study (read, understand, ask), time management,
staying organized, positive thinking and affirmations, talk and surround yourself with
positive people and take care of yourself. She ended her presentation in stress
management by leaving a quote, “It is not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way
you carry it”. On the second part, she briefly discuss the proper way on how to create
or rewrite our own curriculum vitae or resume.

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IV. Implication to Professional Development
A. Contribution to Attendee’s Development
1. In relation to their specific discipline
The seminar entitled “Stress Management” is not really related to any courses
in our curriculum but it is really a big help and realization for us students whose
encountering stress in our journey as being a student. It give us knowledge on how
to handle our stress so that we can be more productive.

2. In relation to their future career

This seminar will give us knowledge on how to properly handle our stress in
the future as an engineer since there are a lot more stress we will encounter as we
enter the engineering industry. We will be facing stress as a worker not a student
anymore, wherein this stress is much heavier than the stress we felt when we are
students.

V. Photos (with caption)

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