Emergent leadership Issues Flashcards
4-Dimensions of wellness
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
Social
Physical dimension
Includes expanding your knowledge about your lifestyle and how food, good nutrition, and physical activity can be an integral part of your lifestyle.
Emotional health
Includes finding ways to encourage positive thinking and acceptance of yourself. The emotional dimension also deals with those issues that affect and detract from your ability to accomplish the mission
Spiritual Health
Addresses questions such as meaning, purpose, values, self-worth, dignity, and hope.
Social health
Having positive interactions with other individuals.
Suicide awareness
Heightened individual and community awareness of suicide, suicide risk factors, and the fact that suicide is only the “tip of the iceberg “ of psychological problems
Risk factors
Relationship difficulties, substance misuse, legal, financial, medical, mental health, and occupational problems, along with depression social isolation, and previous suicide threats/gestures, which may increase the probability of self-harm.
Substance
Alcohol and other mind-controlling or mood-controlling or mood-altering drugs. This includes illicit drugs, prescribed medications, and over-the-counter medications.
Intervention
The process of helping the member recognize at the earliest possible moment that he or she needs treatment for self-destructive drinking or drug abuse. This professionally structured event includes significant others in the members life
Abuse
1 physical, psychological, or sexual maltreatment of a person or animal
2 a diagnosis of substance or alcohol abuse; requires that the individual not meet the criteria for substance or alcohol dependence and meet one or more of the following criteria occurring at any time in the same 12 month period.
Substance Misuse
Any illicit drug or the misuse of any prescribed medication or the abuse of school
Eustress
Describes positive or healthy stress
Distress
Describes negative stress
Organizational factors of stress
Task demands
Role demands
Interpersonal demands
Organizational demands
Organizational leadership
Task demands
Are factors related to a persons job. They include the design of the individuals job (autonomy, task variety, degree of automation), working conditions, and the physical work layout.
Role demands
Relate to pressures placed on a person as a function of the particular role he or she plays in the organization. Role conflicts create expectations that may be hard to reconcile or satisfy.
Interpersonal demands
Pressures created by other individuals. Lack of social support from coworkers and poor interpersonal relationships can cause considerable stress, especially among individuals with a high social need.
Organizational structure
Defines the level of differentiation in the organization, the degree of rules and regulations, and where decisions are made. Excessive rules and lack of participation in decisions that affect an individual are examples of structural variables that might be potential sources of stress
Organizational leadership
Represents the managerial style of the organizations senior executives. Some chief executive officers (ceo) create a culture characterized by tension, fear, and anxiety. They establish unrealistic pressures to perform in the short run, impose excessively tight controls, and routinely fire individuals who “ don’t measure up.”
Behavioral symptoms of stress
Changes in productivity, absence, and turnover, as well as changes in eating habits, increased smoking or consumption of alcohol, rapid speech, fidgeting, and sleep disorders
Combat stress
Happens when there is a change in mental function or behavior because of combat. The changes can be positive by allowing an increase in confidence in both self and peers, or or it can create symptoms of a combat/operational stress injury
Operational stress
Occurs when there are changes in mental functioning or behavior due to military operations other than war
Stressor
Any mental or physical challenge or challenges
Warning signs or symptoms of ptsd
Reliving the events
Avoiding situations that remind you of the event
Feeling numb
Hyperarousal
