3B. Coping with Treatment Flashcards
Define transactional stress
Condition… person/ environment TRANSACTIONS… perceive DISCREPANCY between DEMANDS and COPING RESOURCES
Recall an application of transactional stress
Hospitalisation:
Mental stress of threat to wellbeing, insufficient coping resource as they can’t really do anything about it
What sorts of information can be given to a patient to help them deal with the transactional stress of a procedure? Define these.
Procedural information (info reprocedures) Sensory information (info re sensations to be experienced)
What is the Dual Process Hypothesis?
Proposition that procedural and sensory information work in different ways - procedural info allows patients to deal with situation non-emotionally, whereas sensory info MAPS A NON-THREATENING INTERPRETATION onto expectations
How does perception of control affect stress?
Decreases it
Define and give an example of problem-focused coping
= efforts at changing environment/ actions/ attitudes: eg. seeking health info, learning procedures etc
Define and give an example of emotion-focused learning
= efforts designed to manage emotional stress to maintain one’s own morale: eg. meditation/ praying
Recall the 3 strategies for helping children cope with treatment
- Tell - with simple language
- Show - demonstrate on an inanimate object
- Do - begin only when the child understands - use prompt distrations
Name the 2 studies you have to recall for “coping with treatment”
Auerbach - Amount of Information and Distress
Langer and Rodin - Nursing Home Study
Describe the Auerbach study
Dental extraction
General vs specific info re procedure
Distress correlated to how much patients desired information and how much they were given
Describe the Langer and Rodin study
Study on perceived control of health
2 floors in home
1 floor given more choice than other - engaged more in activities, and had better well-being and 18mo mortality rate
