VOL. XL NO. 25 PAGES 32 NEW DELHI 19 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2015 ` 8.00 STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR YOUTH Dr. Jitendra Nagpal tress is a non-specific response of the body to a lack of mobility/transport for high risk patients at the S demand. Researchers define stress as physical, health facility, poor communication with co-workers, lack mental or emotional response to events that cause bod- of support from supervisor, no forum to express work ily or mental tension. Stress arises when individuals per- concerns and issues and lack of resources to support ceive that they can adequately cope with the demands the provision of care. being made on them or with threats made to their well Physiological stressors are situations and circum- being. For instance, for a teacher, stress is "the experi- stances that affect our body. Examples of physiological ence by teacher of unpleasant, negative emotions, such stressors include rapid growth of adolescence, as anger, anxiety, tension, frustration or depression, menopause, illness, aging, giving birth, accidents, lack resulting from some aspect of their work as a teacher". It of exercise, poor nutrition, and sleep disturbances. is important to understand that while stress is necessary Thoughts: Our brain interprets and perceives situations and positive, it can also be negative and harmful. as stressful, difficult, painful, or pleasant. Some situa- Whether positive or negative, physical or mental, the tions in life are stress provoking, but it is our thoughts body's reaction to stress can be described by three that determine whether they are a problem for us or not. stages: Alarm Reaction Stage - The body identifies and first Causes of Stress reacts to the stress. In this stage the body first releases Stress is a psychological and physiological response hormones that help in the defence against the stressor. to events that upset our personal balance. The potential Resistance Stage - The body continues to resist the causes of stress are numerous. These may be linked to stressors as they persist. If the stressors continue and outside factors such as the state of the world, environ- there is a consistent state of resistance, there is poten- ment in which one lives or works or the family. It may tial to move into the third and final stage. come from one's own irresponsible behaviour, negative Exhaustion Stage - The body and mind are no attitude or feeling or unrealistic expectation. The causes longer able to make the necessary adjustments to resist of stress are highly individualistic. A range of physical to the stressors and there is physical and/or mental emotional factors cause stress. These include threat, exhaustion. fear, uncertainty, life causes, frustrations, conflicts, pres- The focus of the article is on negative physical and sures, environment, fatigue and overwork. mental stress and specifically reviewing the persistent Examples of Environmental Stressors include weath- A perceived threat will lead a person to feel stressed. stressors that push a person into the third stage and ulti- er, noise, crowding, pollution, traffic, unsafe and sub- This can include physical threats, social threats, and finan- mately to exhaustion. standard housing, and crime. Family-related stressors cial threats. A threat may lead to stress. Threat can also Why Stress in Youth? include, family separations (due to work relocations or lead to fear which again leads to stress. When there is a Sources of Stress other reasons), relationship conflict, disagreements, gap between what one does and what one thinks, there is We can experience stress from four basic sources demands for your time and attention, loss of a loved one, cognitive dissonance and one feel stressed. There are like, environment, family-related stressors, Workplace Illness or death of a family member, parenting or child many causes of stress in life like fear of death, ill health Stressors, physiological reasons. Our thoughts also play care challenges. being victim of a crime, self abuse, family change, sexual a role in causing stress. The environment can bombard Workplace Stressors are conflict among co-work- problems, argument, physical changes, moving to new us with intense and competing demands to adjust. ers, unexpected/ unwanted transfer of work location, Continued on page 31 E-version of Collected Works of CAREER IN TREE IMPROVEMENT Mahatma Gandhi Launched AND GENETIC RESOURCES nion Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs & U Information and Broadcasting Mr. Arun Jaitley Afaq Majid Wani And Satyendra Nath launched the e-version of "The Collected Works of ndia is one of the ten most forest-rich countries of the world Mahatma Gandhi" (CWMG) at Gandhi Peace I along with the Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Foundation in New Delhi on 8th September 2015. China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia, Indonesia CWMG is a monumental document of Gandhiji's and Sudan. Together, India and these countries account for 67 words as he spoke and wrote, day after day begin- percent of total forest area of the world. Forests contribute a lot ning 1884 till 30th January 1948. He also uplinked to the ecology and economy of the nations and play a major the e-version on the Gandhi Heritage Portal, a com- role in improvement of quality of life of the people. Due to the prehensive repository of authentic Gandhiana. The impact of biotic pressure on our forests, many forest areas portal hosts e-CWMG in a searchable PDF format to spread across the country has been depleted and degraded ensure easy and free accessibility of the CWMG for which is a cause of serious concern. There is, therefore, an people across the world. On the occasion, Mr. Jaitley urgent need for improvement of forests in the country and that also announced that the Hindi version of the monu- can done by 'Tree Improvement' professionals. mental work (Sampoorna Gandhi Vangmaya) would I & B Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley with the Minister of State Tree Improvement is the science of development and care of forest. It is all about management of forests by protecting, be digitized soon. Minister of State for I & B, Col. for I & B, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Retd.), at the release function of e-version of Collected Works of conserving and upgrading forest resources which also include Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Retd.), Secretary Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi. farming of trees used as timber. This stream of science Ministry of I & B, Mr Sunil Arora and members of the assesses, characterizes and utilizes the genetic diversity of for- expert committee were also present at the function. same time it was a truly collectors' item available to est tree species and carries out tree improvement of major Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Jaitley said the all followers of Gandhiji's philosophy. plantation species through breeding, and appropriate silvicul- intrinsic and heritage value of the e-CWMG Project Speaking earlier, Secretary I & B, Mr. Sunil Arora ture packages. The main objective of this branch of science is had the collaboration and partnership of institutions said that in order to preserve the invaluable heritage to increase the productivity of our forests and plantations to that have been founded and nurtured by Gandhiji of Gandhiji and make it available to future genera- meet the requirements of the forest fringe communities and for- himself. Mr. Jaitley said that this digitized version of tions for all times to come, Publications Division had est based industries. Besides this, it also helps in restoring the the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi would be taken up the task of preparing the e-version of the ecology of degraded areas to expand the forest and tree cover instrumental in preserving the valuable national her- 100 volumes of CWMG in 2011. Mr. Arora further and improve the environmental quality. itage and disseminating it for all humankind. said that in order to maintain the authenticity of this Tree improvement relies basically on understanding varia- Mr. Jaitley also mentioned that the Mahatma was important work, it was decided to have a facsimile- tion that naturally occurs in tree populations. It increases the a true visionary, whose thought process had touched based version in electronic form for preservation. It value of a tree species by 1) selecting the most desirable trees from natural stands or plantations, 2) breeding or mating these various facets of human life. His understanding of a was also decided to make it into a searchable select trees and 3) testing the resulting progeny. The trees wide range of issues had enabled the creation of a master copy in PDF format so that people could ben- involved in this process are referred to as the breeding popula- moral environment which in the long run forced the efit from Gandhiji's life and thought in a simple and tion. This three-step process is then continuously repeated to British to leave India. His writings had been inspira- easy manner. further improve the average value of the breeding population. tional in weaving humanity together. The documen- In this series, his writings, scattered all over Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in Tree tation of his work through an e-version was truly the world, have been collected and constructed Improvement & Genetic Resources are available at the inspirational for followers on the e-platform. At the Continued on page 32 Continued on page 32 DELHI POSTAL REGD. NO. DL-SW-1/4101/2015-17U(C)-108/2015-17 Licensed to Post without prepayment RNI 28728/76 N.D.P.S.O. New Delhi 18/19.9.2015 Date of Publishing : 14.9.2015 (` 8.00) Air Surcharge 20p for Srinagar, Leh, Kalimpong, Imphal, Dimapur, Agartala, Duliajan, Karimganj, Chabua, Diphu, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Haillakandi, Mariani, Jorhat, Shillong, Digboi, Silchar, Port Blair 32 www.employmentnews.gov.in Employment News 19 - 25 September 2015 CAREER IN TREE..