Chapter 11 Flashcards
Who was a Jewish psychiatrist imprisoned in death camps of Nazi Germany?
Walter B Cannon
Viktor Frankl
Hans Selye
Dr Martin Seligman
Viktor Frankl
What is a choice we have facing us everyday?
Use stress for a change as a positive force for vitality
Use incoming demands for change as a positive force for vitality
Allow it to unnecessarily beat us up
All of the above
All of the above
What are you responsible for preventing as a strength-based leader?
Stress from attacking your vitality and the vitality of your staff
Allowing stress to beat us up unnecessarily
The decrease of well being of yourself and your staff
All of the above
Stress from attacking your vitality and the vitality of your staff
What is stress?
Negative emotion
Negative or positive influences
Positive influence
Any change that you must adapt to
Any change that you must adapt to
What is desirable and also essential to life?
Falling in love
Achieving some long-desired career promotions
Stress
All of the above
Stress
What determines the impact stress will have on you?
Whether it is a major life changes or cumulative effect on minor everyday worries
Being optimistic and positive
Having a high well being
How you respond to experiences
How you respond to experiences
How many adults frequently experience stress in their daily lives? 50% 42% 38% 20%
42%
How can stress produce wellness?
By being managed
By recognizing stress
By recognizing and managing
Only if its a positive experience
By recognizing and managing
Which is true about stress?
Stress is a central part of the human condition
Stress is a demand on us to change
How we handle stress determines whether it is harmful or helpful
All of the above
All of the above
Who laid the groundwork for the modern meaning of stress?
Walter B Cannon
Viktor Frankl
Hans Selye
Dr Martin Seligman
Walter B Cannon
How did he describe a series of biochemical changes that prepares us to deal with threats or danger?
Emergency response
Adrenalin bursts
Fight-or-flight
Relaxation response
Fight-or-flight
Who was the first major researcher on stress?
Walter B Cannon
Viktor Frankl
Hans Selye
Dr Martin Seligma
Hans Selye
Which part of the brain sends a signal to the main switch for the stress response, located in the midbrain?
Cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus
Adrenal glands
Epinephrine
Cerebral cortex
What stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to make a series of changes in your body?
Cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus
Adrenal glands
Epinephrine
Hypothalamus
What happens that can have long-term negative effects if left unchecked?
Adrenal glands start to secrete corticoids
Digestion is inhibited
The response of your immune system is inhibited
All of the above
All of the above
What is it called when the stress response is turned off?
Fight-or-flight
A threefold process
Relaxation response
Relaxation process
Relaxation response
When does the fight-or-flight response burn out?
Three minutes after you shut off the danger signals
Three minutes before you shut off the danger signals
Five minutes after you shut off the danger signals
Five minutes before you shut off the danger signals
Three minutes after you shut off the danger signals
What does the three-fold process of responding to stress involve?
The direct effect of the stress on the body
External responses that stimulate tissue defense or help to destroy damaging substances
External responses that cause tissue surrender by inhibiting unnecessary or excessive defense
All of the above
The direct effect of the stress on the body
“The response to stress involves a three-fold process consisting of (1) The direct effect of the stress on the body, (2) internal responses that stimulate tissue defense or help to destroy damaging substances, and (3) internal responses that cause tissue surrender by inhibiting unnecessary or excessive defense.”
What percentage of all disease is attributed to psychosomatic or stress-related origins? 30%-50% 45%-75% 50%-80% 75%-80%
50%-80%
What is our nation’s current emphasis on?
The effects of posttraumatic growth
Producing more posttraumatic growth rather than posttraumatic stress disorder
The positivity of posttraumatic growth
All of the above
Producing more posttraumatic growth rather than posttraumatic stress disorder
What is a police supervisor accountable for?
Producing more posttraumatic growth rather than posttraumatic stress disorder
Understanding and effectively promoting individual and organizational vitality within the workforce
The direct effect of work related stress on the body
The vitality of the unit
Understanding and effectively promoting individual and organizational vitality within the workforce
Pertaining to the “stress fad”, what is important?
Knowing when stress has become too much
Knowing when stress has become too little
Maintaining resilience training or a wellness program
All of the above
All of the above
Police leadership is ______to the “spice of life” or pace of change.
A constant process of adaptation
A rollercoaster of adaptation
A motivating experience
Constant change that occurs in and around us
A constant process of adaptation
What is the prescription for wellness?
To successfully adapt to ever-changing circumstances
Remember penalties for failure to adjust to change are illness
Remember penalties for failure to adjust are unhappiness
All of the above
All of the above
What is a mental-physiological mechanism which helps us adapt to the constant changes that occur in and around us and navigate a reasonably steady course toward whatever we consider a meaningful purpose?
Process of adaptation
General adaptation syndrome
Relaxation process
Three-fold process
General adaptation syndrome
What does your vitality and the vitality of your staff depend on?
If we are a strength-based leader
Your reaction to stressful situations
How well all of you cope with change
How well you adapt to change
How well all of you cope with change
- Stress in daily life is natural, pervasive, and unavoidable, and thus is to be expected.
- Depending on how you choose to cope with stressful events, the experience of stress can be positive (healthy and vital) or negative (sickening and exhausting).
- We differ in a variety of ways, thus our means of and success in adapting to stressful incidents will vary.
- A mental-physiological mechanism known as the “general adaptation syndrome” helps us adjust to demands for change.
- By definition, stress is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand for change. The demand can be from within or from the environment.
- Police supervisors are subjected to mega-changes. As a result, they typically experience higher levels of stress.
- Strengths-based leaders are uniquely prepared to help their staff deal with stressful events and, in turn, preserve their vitality.
What is the definition of stress?
Any changes in our internal and external environment
The nonspecific response of the body to any demand for change
The negative effect of changes in our internal environment
All of the above
The nonspecific response of the body to any demand for change
Why do police supervisors typically experience higher levels of stress?
They deal with the stress of their team members
They have more responsibilities
They are responsible for the decisions which are made
They are subjected to mega-changes
They are subjected to mega-changes
What is a central issue for all police supervisors?
How stress affects job performance
Coping with stress on a daily basis
How to cope with the stressors of everyday
Being able to perform under high levels of stress
How stress affects job performance
What happens to employees at low change levels?
Maintain minimum levels of performance
Do not experience any stress-related physical strain
Disengaged and no reason to change their performance level
All of the above
All of the above
Which employees are sufficiently engaged to motivate them to higher levels of performance?
Low level stress
Moderate level stress
High level stress
The motivation depends on how they cope with the stress level
Moderate level stress
What acts as a stimulus for individual vitality?
Not having stress
Low level of stress
High level of stress
Stress in a reasonable amount
Stress in a reasonable amount
What can produce creative activities as police personnel try to solve challenging problems?
Situational stress
Stress in moderation
Functional stress
Fight-or-flight mode
Functional stress
When does both individual vitality and performance drop markedly?
Not enough stress
Excessive stress
Strength-based leaders is stressed
None of the above
Excessive stress
Where does stress come from?
Environmental
Organizational
Personal
All of the above
All of the above
Which source of stress is from within?
Environmental
Organizational
Personal
All of the above
Personal
What are the two categories of inner stress?
Emotions and power base
Emotions and well being
Power base and well being
Power base and fear base
Emotions and power base
Which is a potent negative emotion that you should be able to recognize and deal with?
Guilt and anger
Fear and failure
Depression
All of the above
All of the above
How are the environmental stressors labeled?
Political
Technological
Economic
All of the above
All of the above
What are the two types of hyperstress?
Political and economic
Quantitative and qualitative
Mental and physical
Input overload and output overload
Quantitative and qualitative
Which is associated with high blood pressure, pulse rate, and cholesterol?
Hypostress
Input overload
Quantitative
Physical
Quantitative
What is hypostress caused by?
Low level of mental and physical activity
Quantitative underloads
Qualitative underloads
All of the above
All of the above
Why is the decision-making turf of a police supervisor stress-inducing?
It’s filled with ambiguity and confusion
It’s high-risk decision making
Nonprogammable decisions
Above-average conditions of uncertainty
It’s filled with ambiguity and confusion
Who can make a supervisor’s job very frustrating?
One employee not knowing how to deal with stress
A group of malcontents
One malcontent
All of the above
One malcontent
What are the four major dimensions to stress?
Hyperstress and hypostress
Eustress and distress
Both a and b
Physical, mental, economical and political
Both a and b
Which major dimension is favorable?
Hypostress
Eustress
Physical
Mental
Eustress
Which is a coping mechanism?
Conscious
Internal
External
Having a support system
Conscious
Which one is a reflexive action?
Subconscious
Conscious
Internal
External
Subconscious
Which coping mechanism is learned?
External
Physical
Having friends
Conscious
Conscious
Which stress do police leaders rarely experience?
Hyperstress
Hypostress
Eustress
Distress
Hypostress
What is the first step in any stress management and vitality program?
Recognizing stress
Securing reliable data
Writing down what may cause stress
Recognizing your inability to cope with stress
Securing reliable data
Who is the founder of positive thinking?
Walter B Cannon
Viktor Frankl
Hans Selye
Dr Martin Seligman
Dr Martin Seligman
What did he suggest would not only help prevent PTSD, but also increase the number of soldiers who bounce back readily from adversity?
Focusing on treating the symptoms of depression
He created the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program
Move the entire distributions of the reaction to adversity in the direction of resilience and growth
Focus on the pathologies of depression, anxiety, suicide, and PTSD
Move the entire distributions of the reaction to adversity in the direction of resilience and growth
What is the main thrust of the CSF?
Produce more posttraumatic growth
Not focusing on PTSD
Approaching training through a soldier’s strengths rather than drilling their weaknesses out of them
All of the above
All of the above
What are the three parts of the CSF?
Building mental toughness, building strengths, and building strong relationships
Supportive relationships, mental discipline, and helping others
Mental, strength, and supervision
Reading, relaxation, and recreation
Building mental toughness, building strengths, and building strong relationships
What training is producing better military performance, less PTSD, better physical health, and ultimately a better family?
CSF
Resilience training
Growth training
Positive psychology
Resilience training
Which is a resilience strategy?
Supportive relationships
Altruistic egoism
The three Rs
All of the above
All of the above
What does a supportive relationship require first?
Time
Cultivation
Empathy
Reciprocity
Cultivation
What does it take to develop emotionally healthy people with a sense of “okayness”?
Cultivation
Trust
Positive strokes
Reciprocity
Positive strokes
What can help you reduce stress?
Positive psychology
Learning to reduce the complexity and the number of tasks that confront you
Developing emotionally with healthy people
Having a strong support system
Learning to reduce the complexity and the number of tasks that confront you
How can you cope more effectively?
Problems are handled one by one
By having a priority system
With manageable installments
All of the above
All of the above
What is very helpful for reducing mental stress?
Having a priority system
Recognizing your stressor
Mind focusing exercises
None of the above
Mind focusing exercises
How do meditative methods help reduce stress?
Unload tension by focusing your mind on neutral thoughts
Rest your mind then pick up your burdens with more energy
Allows you to put down your mental burdens several times a day
All of the above
All of the above
What does everyone need which causes us to feel good and secure?
Safety zone
Comfort zone
Time outs
Meditation
Comfort zone
When is it easier to deal with the stress and hassles of your life?
When only 10% of your day is bad
When you have a clear mind after meditation
When you are fully rested
When you’re also aware of what’s right with your life
When you’re also aware of what’s right with your life
What is wrong to say to a distressed person?
“Don’t take it so hard”
“It’s probably for the best”
“God must really love you to have selected you for this burden”
All of the above
All of the above
What do people under adverse conditions need?
Compassion
Empathy
Physical comforting
All of the above
All of the above
What is the first and most important step you can take in your responsibility to help a coworker through a bad situation?
Seek out the unfortunate person
Be compassionate
Offer advice
Have empathy
Seek out the unfortunate person
Who do we hurt more by feeling jealous?
Those around us
Ourselves
The one we are jealous of
Everyone
Ourselves
What is the best cure for jealousy?
To realize they may have their own wounds
They may be envying us
They may have their own emotional wounds
All of the above
All of the above
What are the three “Rs” for strategy 4?
Reading, relaxation, and recreation
Recognizing, relaxation, and rewarding
Recognizing, reading, and relaxing
Reading, recognizing, and rewarding
Reading, relaxation, and recreation
What is “altruistic egoism”?
Looking out for each other
Looking out for yourself
Projecting yourself onto others
Ensuring others see things your way
Looking out for yourself
What is an enduring part of our human nature?
Love on command
Looking out for others
Earn thy neighbor’s love
Ensuring your own self worth
Earn thy neighbor’s love
What are the five strategies for dealing with positive events?
Strategy 1 - Supportive relationships Strategy 2 - Mental discipline Strategy 3 - Helping others Strategy 4 - The three Rs Strategy 5 - Altruistic egoism
