Question

Mandy feels like she can’t deal with the stress anymore. First, her mother moved into her house for two months because of major home renovations. Mandy feels like her mother is constantly critical of the way she keeps her house and handles her life. While Mandy knows helping her mom for the next couple of months is the right thing to do, she can’t help being annoyed. Mandy is also having trouble at her job. Her job in the medical lab is usually fun, but the organization laid off three workers recently and Mandy finds her workload has been too much to handle. It is the hospital’s busy time, too, so Mandy often works late to get the work done. On top of all that, Mandy had lent her best friend, Sylvia, $200 last month for rent, and Sylvia hasn’t paid it back. Mandy not only needs the money, but feels that Sylvia was disrespectful when Mandy asked for the money back. Mandy is afraid this will affect their 10-year friendship. Identify and discuss Mandy’s stressors.

What type of stress is Mandy experiencing? Using the Four A’s model, how can Mandy go through the process to resolve her stress?

Discuss in detail Mandy’s options.

Answer 1

Mandy is experience an acute stress like physical stress in the job by overwork and at home by taking care of her mom.Emotional stress from her friend who has not returned her money which she is in much needed situation. These stressors has to be assesed, monitoredand relieved for her healthy life.

The four A's model is avoid,alter,accept ,adapt to cope up with critical or stressful situation.

Mandy can make use of this model to come out of her stress and some options to come out if the stress are as follows

Avoid:

She can avoid the things that triggers and causes the stress (her mom's activities, friend's situation for not returning the money)

Alter:

Can inform in the hospital for help in the laboratory to reduce her work load according To labor act.

request her friend about her financial situation and the need for money

Have food on time this can reduce her physical exertion and maintain good health

Following simple meditations to keep her stress under control

Accept:

She has to accept the real situations and carry on to balance it keeping personal and official work apart.

Adapt

She has to get used to the new changes and slowly accept and continue it in her rest of the life to have a healthy lifestyle