2. Fill in the attached5 Point Stress Scale. This scale will reflect your personal levels of stress. For each number, explain what the Level feels like for you during a stressful event and what you can do in that moment to lower the number. For example, at a Level 4, a person might feel like they can't concentrate and have a headache. A coping skill that might help if a person is at a Level 4 could include taking a break and going for a 10-minute walk outside.
4. For 3 days, monitor your own stress, keeping track of the situation that is causing stress and what Level you feel you reached during that stressful time. This stress can be as specific as having an argument with your boss to something more general as getting home from work at 5:30 pm and needing to feed the family before going to a hockey at 6:30 pm. This information will be useful as you write your reflection paper.
6. After monitoring your stress for 3 days, reflect on your levels and what causes you stress in a 2-3 page paper. How could you better manage your stress? Which time management skills from the Rasmussen College Student Success Guide could you implement to decrease your stress levels? How will you apply this assessment and these time management skills to your career in Human Services?
8. Submit both your reflection paper and your completed 5 Point Stress Scale.

5-Point Stress Scale

	Feels Like	What I Can Do
5	(Day 1) I am going to explode and that I cannot handle today anymore. (Day 2) husband and his uncle got into a heated argument which fell to me and my husband fighting what made me feel like my world was falling apart.	(Day1) Take a break and walk away from everything now. (Day 2) I got in my car and went for a drive for 2 hours and cleared my head. I ended up picking up my kids from school and taking them out for dinner just the three of us.
4
3
2
1	(Day3) No stress I had to take my grandson to a doctor's appointment, so I was away from the house, felt great!	It seems like when I am out of the house and away from my client, I am stress free, because I am stuck there almost 24/7 so maybe it is time, I take me and my kids and move back to the cities!