Coping Flashcards
What is coping?
The difference between the demands placed on someone and our ability to meet those demands.
What is Appraisal-Focused Coping?
Focus on finding meaning and understanding.
Assess the situation within context.
Focus on tackling it one small step at a time rather than looking at the whole.
Problem-Focused Coping
Focused on practical aspects of situation.
Try to solve the problems at hand.
Identify problems and potential actions to Change what can be Changed.
Emotion-Focused Coping
Focus on managing emotions in the situation.
Develop strategies to decrease emotional distress so magnitude is bearable.
Helps with pain or discomfort of treatments.
What is the basis of all defense mechanisms?
Denial
Define displacement.
Substitutaing a less threatening object for the original object of an imples. (displacement of anger)
Projection
Attributing one’s own undesirable traits or impulses to another (criticize others for our own shortcomings.)
Intellectualization
Using exclusively rational processes and explanations to evade the emotional pain or reality of a stuation or threat.
Denial
Refusing to acknowledge consciously the existence of danger or a threatening situation.
Reaction formation
Expressing exaggerated ideas and emotions that are the opposite of disturbing unconscious impulses and desires. (Someone with a negative group bias is nice to those people despite their negative viewpoint.)
What are 5 psychosocial adaptation strategies for coping?
Stress management
Skill acquisition
Peer support
Occupational accomodations (changing fields or jobs)
Cognitive reframing (integrating new situations into life.)
What is the role of hope?
Central role in healing. Offer realistic hope rather than false promises. Once hope is lost, individuals give up.
