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Chapter 8 - adjustments and patterns of behavior Flashcards

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Adjustment

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How well an ind has learned to deal with life situations

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Burnout

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State of deterioration that affects an individual physically, mentally and emotionally

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Vicious cycle

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Ineffective behavior creates add problems that the ind handles with more ineffective behavior

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How does a person show they are well adjusted

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  1. Deals effectively with problems
  2. Finds satisfaction in living
  3. Developed skills and habits needed to solve problems of beh and satisfy needs
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Who is poorly adjusted?

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  1. Feelings of dissatisfaction
  2. More problems
  3. Not learnt to cope with obstacles or effectively deal with everyday problems of living
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What is the biggest obstacle of poorly adjusted

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Poor adjustment itself,
Attitudes, habits, emotional reactions, beh. Patterns
Part of poor adjust then create more problems
VICIOUS CYCLE

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How do fix a vicious cycle

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Ind has to learn to deal with life sits more effectively

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What is the key to adjustment

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Learning to recog ineffective behave and replacing it with another behavior to get better results
Have to be willing to change to get better results

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What is change

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Test of one’s ability to adjust
Opportunity to grow –
Conscious eval of habitual behavior

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How do emotions influence adjustment

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Experience positive emotions is likely to have better adjustment that one who freq experiences negative emot

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Can emotions be a matter of choice?

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Yes,

How you handle response to annoyances

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How is fear and influence on adjustment

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Waiting for bad things that might happen influences how perceive events
Chronic anxiety is living with fear that arises from neg thinking rather than real threat

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Sadness

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Normal, everyone experiences it
Focusing on trauma can mean staying in sad state
Not take steps to correct

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habitual negative thinking

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represents a state of poor adjustments

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Choosing

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Anger, fear, sadness

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Hassles

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How you cope with minor frustrations

State of adjustment is factor with coping with hassles

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How to improve adjustment

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Focus on one or two then add others, too many is overwhelming

  1. Find patterns of beh that satisfy basic needs
  2. Assume conscious control over beh
  3. Use prob solve to find solutions to prob
  4. Use emotions constructively
  5. Evaluate beh in spec situation
  6. Self-evaluate in constructive sense
  7. Select goals, plan to reach goals
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Daily habits

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Smaller and immediate
Contribute to overall state of adjustment
a.	Eat
b.	Drink
c.	Exercise
d.	Avoid harmful substances
e.	Recreational activities
f.	Sleep
19
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Joy and Laughter

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Physical, mental, emotional benefits of laughter and joyous events

20
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Avoid Burnout

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Builds over time
Not having good daily habits
Workaholics at high risk

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Signs of burnout

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Make errors
Increasing frustration, decrease interest in work
Feel unappreciated
Doing job is more difficult
Coworkers may notice
Physical symptoms of fatigue, illness, stomach issues, headaches
Increase consumption of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, drugs

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Causes of burnout

individual

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Daily habits
Failure to take resp for own well being
Dedication to job too much
Ineffective stress reduction

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Causes of burnout at work

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Poor work env
Bad supervision
Lack of encouragement or emotional support

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Adapting to new situations

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Stress can precipitate big changes

Jobs, supervisors,

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How to adapt to new situation

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  1. Study situation carefully
  2. Observe beh of others
  3. Learn policies and regulation
  4. Adapt beh for new situation
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Adjusting as a health care prof

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Defined role

Limitations set

27
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growing

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clinging to old bh wont allow to grow

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