Coping Skills Flashcards
Coping skills
- help people face challenges without resorting to risk behaviours
Why do people vary in their coping stradiges?
- personality
- culture
- background
- amount of stress experienced
On of the FIRST ways to protect ourselves from the adverse effects of stress is
To face the stress head on! Recognize it and get ready to deal with it
Transactional model of stress
- stress is seen as a process
- continuous, unique person - environmental interactions determine stress response
- cognitive appraisal (how we think about something)
Interaction and adjustments because of stress are chalked
Transactions
Emotional based coping
- regulating the emotion tied to the stressful situation, without changing the realities of the situation
Examples: acceptance, avoidance, distancing, seeking emotional support, selective attention - exam stress
Problem based coping
- used when we feel competent to deal with the stressor
- problem solving the situations
- define the problem, generate and evaluate solutions, learn skills to mange stressor, reappraise
Example: studying for an exam
Locus of control
- refers to an individuals perceptions of where the underlying responsibilities of life events reside
- septrum
Learned helplessness
- opposite of feeling in control
- learned belief that their is nothing one can do to improve a bad situation
- more common in people with trauma
Resilience
- a life long process where children of disturbed or incompetent parents learn to adapt to adverse circumstances through a variety of coping stradiges and are able to flourish despite sometimes overwhelming onsticals
- explored extensively in the domain of developmental psychology
Concept of resistance is based on
Attachment theory
Attatchment theory
Emphasizes the importance of the mother-infant relationship which allows the child to developed self confidence, and a sense of security, which protects the child later on in life and helps the child cope with separation adversity
The resilient personality
Def esteem —> confidence —> optimism —> hope —> autonomy —> ability to cope with stress —> sociability —> capacity to live with a broad range of emotions —> positive attitude when dealing with solving problems
Family residence
- ability of a family to respond positively to an adverse event, and emerge strengthened, more resourceful, and more confident
Spirituality and religious beliefs
- can be tremendously effective in helping individuals cope and can even enhance the immune system and increase a sense of wellbeing
