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.