Health Care and Stress Management Flashcards
sources of stress.
STRESSORS -
when people experience positive events but require them to adjust.
Eustress
when people experience negative events and make a great deal of demands on them.
Distress
is a state of exhaustion and over-fatigue.
is a sort of accumulated stress.
Burnout
How do we response to stress/ what are the three responses 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 functioning effectively in a dynamic society.
Mental Health
How do you Maintain a Good Mental Health
- Have a good philosophy of life that would guide you in having a meaningful and happier life.
- Develop a great sense of humor.
- Be true to yourself.
Unconscious 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
imitating the characteristics of a person he/she admires to deal with his/her own insecurities.
Identification
avoiding negative emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects of one’s life.
Intellectualization
attributing one’s own weaknesses or shortcomings to someone else.
Projection
making up plausible explanations or excuses to cover up negative feelings such as guilt.
Rationalization
acting opposite to what the person truly feels
Reaction formation
a person reverts to an earlier psychosexual stage and begins to behave like a child.
going back to an earlier phase of development when there were fewer demands
Regression
unconsciously keeping unpleasant information from your conscious mind.
Repression
