Topic: How to Help Students Manage Stress in School
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Research Focus
The key focus of the study is to investigate how to help students manage stress in school. The school administration allocates abundant resources in facilitating the education aspect of the school with little concentration on the students’ mental health. By investigating how to help students manage stress in school, most of the students will be managing their stress well, which will improve their mental health. Moreover, it will provide teachers and other professionals harmony with the students since a mentally healthy student behaves well, performs well, and desists from drug abuse.
Introduction
Lack of practical stress management skills in various schools has exacerbated many students’ poor performance, rebelliousness, and abuse of drugs. Students are dealing with stressful situations that their parents or teachers seem not to comprehend. This study will offer a breakthrough on how students can deal with their stressful situations together. The study will offer suggestions on how students can assist each other in line with stress management. It will also investigate students’ responses concerning the impacts of incorporating guidance and counselling programs in the school on their mental health. Results from the study will help the students learn about the management of stress while in school. Students with good mental health are beneficial to the community, the school, and parents as they emerge responsible and dependable.
Statement of Purpose
Students mental health is deteriorating gradually because of laxity on the side of the school’s administration. Most students engage in irresponsible behaviors and abuse of drugs which affects their performance. Having effective ways of managing stress while at school will compel the students to begin concentrating on productive activities and turn things around for the wellbeing of the school and the community. Thus, the purpose of my action research is to change the status quo in the school so that the administration can focus on helping students manage stress while at school and improve their mental health.
Possible Research Methods: Collecting Data
The data that I plan to collect include students’ views about their stress and information about trends on students’ mental health. I will use the interview in collecting information regarding the views of the students about their mental health. It is through the interviews that I will gain a more profound understanding of students’ mental health. Gathering information about trends on students’ mental health, in general, will be conducted through a literature review on the existing body of work on stress management among students. I will use audio recording devices during my interviews with students on their permission to assist in the data analysis phase of the study.
Possible Research Methods: Analyzing Data
The appropriate data analysis method applied in this type of research is thematic analysis. Thematic analysis is a data analysis method used by researchers in analyzing data from interviews and textual sources. The method effectively analyses qualitative data such as the ones that make a significant part of this study. I will analyze the information obtained through the interviews using thematic analysis and then organize them in tables based on the themes identified in the interviews and the literature reviews. I prefer thematic analysis because, apart from its simplicity, it effectively analyses data from literature and interviews.
Preliminary Conclusion
Students behavior and performance has deteriorated in the past decades, yet teachers and parents blame it on technology. This research will prove that individual stress among students while at school contributes to social disorderliness and poor performance among students. Evidence reveals that stress causes poor mental health among students, which is a foundation of irresponsibility in such students. Helping students attain mental health guarantees happiness to the school, families, and community where the students reside.
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