Some children can develop anti-social tendencies leading to criminal behavior and some just withdraw from society as a whole. The genital stage is the final stage of development and the individual is involved in the creation and enhancement of their life. The attraction to the opposite sex becomes stronger and the welfare of others takes a priority in our lives. Stress during the early years of this stage can affect the person's self-esteem and cause them to fear rejection or lack self-confidence. This will affect relationships, jobs, and all aspects of the young adult life.

Stress has led many people to become addicted to alcohol or drugs as a means to cope with the ups and downs of teen and adult life. Stress in today's society and the peer pressure that has caused younger children to have to address stressful situations at an earlier age such as single parent and broken up families, lack of supervision, and other such situations, has lead to the usage of drugs by children in elementary and junior high school.

Stresses experienced by the college student are another area where many have turned to alcohol or drugs to cope with the demands of college work and schedules. In the article, "Five-Minute Stress Management Techniques Any Nursing Student Can Teach," Beck and associates declare, "Persons experiencing stress may engage in poor health practices as a way to cope. These practices may include smoking, drinking alcohol, poor eating habits, poor exercise, and sleep loss" (Beck, et al., 2010). Since nursing students deal with healthcare and are students, they were challenged with developing a solution to the unhealthy aspects of stress. The results were:

After identifying themselves, the nursing students offered information...

They offered the campus students stress management information using the pamphlet they had developed. They briefly reviewed the information on the pamphlet and encouraged the students to access the web sites that were identified on the pamphlet for more information. The pamphlet included information about touch therapy massage, sleep hygiene, deep breathing, stretching, exercise, visual imagery, and the effects of alcohol on nutrition. The nursing students also provided information about campus resources for counseling and support (Beck, et al., 2010).
Conclusion

Stress plays a vital role in all areas of the human body and development. This paper barely touched on the seriousness or the role of stress that affects all humans in various ways. The stressful events, experienced by a child, affect the way the child looks at the world and copes with the situations that arise.

The information on stress is very extensive and more research and a longer paper are required to accurately do justice to the topic of stress and the ways to cope with it.

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