Chapter 8 - adjustments and patterns of behavior Flashcards
Adjustment
How well an ind has learned to deal with life situations
Burnout
State of deterioration that affects an individual physically, mentally and emotionally
Vicious cycle
Ineffective behavior creates add problems that the ind handles with more ineffective behavior
How does a person show they are well adjusted
- Deals effectively with problems
- Finds satisfaction in living
- Developed skills and habits needed to solve problems of beh and satisfy needs
Who is poorly adjusted?
- Feelings of dissatisfaction
- More problems
- Not learnt to cope with obstacles or effectively deal with everyday problems of living
What is the biggest obstacle of poorly adjusted
Poor adjustment itself,
Attitudes, habits, emotional reactions, beh. Patterns
Part of poor adjust then create more problems
VICIOUS CYCLE
How do fix a vicious cycle
Ind has to learn to deal with life sits more effectively
What is the key to adjustment
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
What is change
Test of one’s ability to adjust
Opportunity to grow –
Conscious eval of habitual behavior
How do emotions influence adjustment
Experience positive emotions is likely to have better adjustment that one who freq experiences negative emot
Can emotions be a matter of choice?
Yes,
How you handle response to annoyances
How is fear and influence on adjustment
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
Sadness
Normal, everyone experiences it
Focusing on trauma can mean staying in sad state
Not take steps to correct
habitual negative thinking
represents a state of poor adjustments
Choosing
Anger, fear, sadness
Hassles
How you cope with minor frustrations
State of adjustment is factor with coping with hassles
How to improve adjustment
Focus on one or two then add others, too many is overwhelming
- Find patterns of beh that satisfy basic needs
- Assume conscious control over beh
- Use prob solve to find solutions to prob
- Use emotions constructively
- Evaluate beh in spec situation
- Self-evaluate in constructive sense
- Select goals, plan to reach goals
Daily habits
Smaller and immediate Contribute to overall state of adjustment a. Eat b. Drink c. Exercise d. Avoid harmful substances e. Recreational activities f. Sleep
Joy and Laughter
Physical, mental, emotional benefits of laughter and joyous events
Avoid Burnout
Builds over time
Not having good daily habits
Workaholics at high risk
Signs of burnout
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
Causes of burnout
individual
Daily habits
Failure to take resp for own well being
Dedication to job too much
Ineffective stress reduction
Causes of burnout at work
Poor work env
Bad supervision
Lack of encouragement or emotional support
Adapting to new situations
Stress can precipitate big changes
Jobs, supervisors,
How to adapt to new situation
- Study situation carefully
- Observe beh of others
- Learn policies and regulation
- Adapt beh for new situation
Adjusting as a health care prof
Defined role
Limitations set
growing
clinging to old bh wont allow to grow
