stress Inoculation Training [SIT) in Improving Resilience and Coping Stress Repertoires among School Children— \ Proposal for Practice
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2012
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-The preexisting stressM situations of the school children take up a higher altitude while they fade
t!ic competitive public exnin.s of th.e Indian sysurm o f education. This critical situation gets v.’orsened with the
high and unrealisric oxpeciarions of thelsociefy in garieral and parents in particular, anti the faiiurc of coping
nu'chanisnis among ic.-idiens dealing wish tliese chikircfii. Sorhe pEOposed study dales out with the rationale
of employing School Stress Inoculation Training Programme on a preventative hasis to inoculate school:
children, their phrehts ahci teachers to future stressors and investigate its effect on stress coping repertoires
and the well being of the schopT children. The Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) approach is designed to
iihpart skills to -enhance their resistance to stress, and practice a repertoire of coping skills augmenting the
capability to re.spond effectively in ihe present and future stressful situations:.. The key objective of the study
is to s;repare students, teachers and parents to respev-xi more favorably to negative stress events by training
them ;Ph effectiye coping skills even before stress exposure and assess its efScacy over the well being and
, performance Of school children.