Chapter 8: Understanding Stress And Coping In Context

Question 1

What are protective factors?

Answer 1

Characteristics in situations or people that protect from problem outcomes, such as coping skills

Question 2

What is a distal factor?

Answer 2

Factors that are more distant from a problem, eg recession would affect jobs, but would be considered distal

Question 3

What is a proximal factor?

Answer 3

Closer to the individual than distal factors.

Proximal factors trigger stress and lead to coping efforts

Question 4

What are distal contextual factors?

Answer 4

Ongoing environmental conditions that interact in various life domains.

Eg. Religion, toxic waste near neighbourhood, violence in community

Question 5

What are distal personal factors?

Answer 5

Aspects of an individual that are generally not visible.

Eg. Genetic factors, personality traits, prior life experiences

THESE MAY BE STRESSOR OR RESOURCES FOR PROTECTION

Question 6

What are stressors?

Answer 6

Events or situations that represent a threatened or actual loss of resources

Question 7

Identify 4 examples of proximal stressors

Answer 7

Major life events
Life transitions
Daily hassles
Disasters

Question 8

What are social-emotional competencies?

Answer 8

Self regulation skills, managing emotions, intrapersonal processes that are needed to connect with others

Question 9

What is a cognitive appraisal?

Answer 9

Constructing the meaning of a stressful situation or event

Question 10

What is reappraisal?

Answer 10

Reframing a problem, altering one’s perception of the situation or it’s meaning

Eg. Leaving settlement is good, because Monigram is better

Question 11

What is problem-focused coping?

Answer 11

Addressing a problem directly and making a plan to change the situation

Eg. Needing to leave settlement, doing interviews

Question 12

What is emotion-focused coping?

Answer 12

Addresses the feelings that accompany the stressors

Seeking to reduce anxiety

Question 13

What is meaning-focused coping?

Answer 13

Finding significance in the stressor by reappraising it

Question 14

What is a virtuous spiral?

Answer 14

Adaptive coping may initiate a virtuous spiral in which resources are increased, successes build on eachother, and the stresses is transformed into a catalyst for growth :)

Question 15

What is wellness?

Answer 15

The experience of positive outcomes in health and subjective well-being

Question 16

What is resilience?

Answer 16

Individuals capacity to adapt successfully and function competently despite exposure to stress, adversity, or chronic trauma

Question 17

What is thriving?

Answer 17

Growth that takes one beyond their prior level of functioning

Resilience +

Question 18

What is empowerment?

Answer 18

Gaining access to valued resources

Question 19

True or false, coping is dynamic and contextual

Answer 19

TRUE!

Question 20

What is the difference between generalized and specific support?

Answer 20

Generalized: kept over a longer period of time, secure base

Specific: to help with specific stressors

Question 21

True or false, generalized support is often measured in terms of perceived support

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What are mutual assistance self help groups

Answer 22

Ran by someone experiencing the focal concern and do not have professional involvement

Question 23

What are risk factors?

Answer 23

Characteristics of situations or individuals that heighten the chances of problem outcomes