Create a PowerPoint presentation on your experience with your selected coping strategy and relaxation technique.
Coping Strategy: Humor
Relaxation Technique: Music Therapy
Backstory/Context: You are now at your final assessment for this course. It’s time to revise the work that you put together for Assessment 1. Your final assessment will involve a presentation in which you focus on your work with the coping strategy and relaxation technique you have chosen. Whether it has taken you days, weeks, or months to get to this final assessment, reflect on how you have used your chosen coping strategy and relaxation technique in your everyday life to pursue a path of wellness. Consider how you can continue to use these two approaches, along with others, as you leave this course and continue with your life journey. How will you share what you have learned in this course with others?
Remember that there are small things we can do each day to reduce our feelings of stress and enhance wellness.
Create a PowerPoint presentation that includes the following elements:
- Title slide.
- Coping Strategy (2–3 slides).
- Provide background on the coping strategy that was chosen.
- Explain how one theory from the textbook supports the coping strategy.
- Describe scholarly research from three peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss the use of this strategy.
- Relaxation Technique (2–3 slides).
- Provide background on the relaxation technique that was chosen.
- Explain how one theory supports the relaxation technique.
- Describe scholarly research from three peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss the use of this technique.
- Experience with Coping Strategy (1–2 slides).
- Summarize how you used or explored the coping strategy.
- Explain the successes and challenges you’ve had with the coping strategy.
- Experience with Relaxation Technique (1–2 slides).
- Summarize how you used or explored the relaxation technique.
- Explain the successes and challenges you’ve had with the relaxation technique.
- Present suggestions for how you could use both of these in the future or perhaps why you might want to try different coping strategies and relaxation techniques (1–2 slides).
- References.
Note: Each slide should include speaker notes to explain that slide’s key points in more detail.
- Written communication: Written communication is professional, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
- Resources: Use a minimum of seven sources all peer-reviewed journal articles.
- APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting.
- Length: 9–14 PowerPoint slides with speaker notes.
- Font and font size: use a minimum of 12-point font.
GRADING RUBRIC:
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply current theory and research to specific topics in stress, trauma, and wellness.
- Explain the background of the selected coping strategy.
- Describe scholarly research on the use of this coping strategy.
- Explain the background of the selected relaxation technique.
- Describe scholarly research on the use of this relaxation technique.
- Competency 3: Recommend a variety of responses to stress and trauma to enhance wellness on personal, local, and global scales.
- Explain experiences, successes, and challenges related to a coping strategy.
- Explain experiences, successes, and challenges related to a relaxation technique.
- Present suggestions for future use or discontinued use of coping strategies and relaxation techniques.
- Competency 4: Communicate with appropriate purpose, organization, evidence, tone, and sentence structure.
- Use APA style formatting for citations and reference list with only minor errors.
- Address assessment purpose in a well-organized oral presentation, incorporating appropriate evidence and visuals and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
