Health Care And Stress Management Flashcards
Two types of Stress
Eustress and Distress
When people experience positive events but requires them to adjust.
Eustress
When people experience negative effects and make a great deal of demands on them.
Distress
A situation that someone regards as treathening and is possibly exceeding one’s resources.
Stress by Richard Lazarus
A state of exhaustion and over fatigue
Burnout
3 ways we respond to Stress
Physical Response, Psychological Response, Behavioral Response
The ability to handle or minimize the physical and emotional effects of such anxiety.
Stress Management
Is the science of mental health which gives emphasis on the proper care of the mind.
Mental Hygiene
It is keeping the whole personality when one faces the reality in both losing and victorious situations and thus function effectively in a dynamic society.
Mental Health
How to Maintain a good Mental Health
- have a good philosophy of life
- develop a great sense of humor
- be true to yourself
Unconsious strategies that people use in order to cope with the pain and deal with anxiety, frustrations, conflicts or stress.
Defense Mechanism
Directing energy toward another object or person original object or person is inaccessible.
Displacement
Person makes up for or covers up his or her weak areas by being superior in other areas.
Compensation
When a person refuses to accept a painful reality or truth aspects of one’s life.
Denial (james)
Imitating the characteristics of a person he/she admires to deal with his/her own insecurities.
Identification