COPING MECHANISM AND MENTAL HYGIENE Flashcards
defined as the thoughts and behaviours used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressfu
Coping
When faced with stress, coping responses/strategies can be characterized as:
- problem-focused coping
- emotion-focused coping
involves attempts to do something constructive about the stressful conditions that are harming, threatening, or challenging an individual.
Problem-focused coping
involves efforts to regulate emotions experienced due to stressful event.
Emotion-focused coping
A propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way.
coping styles
Coping style characterized by wanting to address the problem, get it out in the open and deal with it.
Approach (Confrontative, Vigilant)
Coping Style characertized as The reverse — where removing the stressor and avoiding it in the future is preferred.
Avoidant (Minimizing)
The science of maintaining mental health and preventing the development of psychosis, neurosis, or other mental disorders.
Mental Hygiene
Three Approaches to Mental Hygiene
Preventative
Therapeutic
Curative
Kind of Approach to Mental Hygiene:
Practices to surround the individual with environmental influences that will enable to develop his/her full potentialites, to obtain emotional stability and to achieve personal and social adequacy.
The Preventative Approach
Kind of Approach to Mental Hygiene:
Attempt to correct minor behavioral adjustments through counseling and psychotherapy.
Therapeutic Approach
Kind of Approach to Mental Hygiene:
Concerned with detection and correction of serious but curative behavioural maladjustments.
The Curative Approach
is “the practice of activities that a mature person initiates and performs, within a time frame, to promote and maintain personal well-being, healthy functioning, and continuing development throughout life.
Self-Care
These are benefits of What?
- boosts resilience
- maximize protective factors and minimize the risk factors
- strengthen our character
- good preventive measure
Self-Care
means To bend but not to break
To bounce back, To grow amidst adversities
Reslience
