Effective stress management skills are ideal techniques and methods that allow a person to cope up with the

demands of his or her environment, external or internal. Stress is a product of the interaction between one's

coping ability and the demands that require testing of such abilities.

Though stress is known to be positive, it is also associated with a lot of negative symptoms that affect a person

on the physical, psychological and emotional level. These skills invoke the fight or flight response in a person

thus making it possible to cope with or alter stressful situations. In fact, effective stress management can be

thought of in the terms of the following models.