U3 AOS1 Strategies for coping with stress and improving mental wellbeing

Question 1

Coping

Answer 1

all the things we
do to manage and
reduce the stress
we experience

Question 2

Coping strategy

Answer 2

a method that we
use to manage or
reduce the stress
produced by a
stressor

Question 3

Coping flexibility

Answer 3

the ability to
modify our coping
strategies to
adapt and meet
the demands of
different stressful
situations

Question 4

Context-specific
effectiveness

Answer 4

when a coping
strategy matches
or is appropriate
to the stressful
situation

Question 5

Approach
strategy

Answer 5

an effort to
confront a
stressor and deal
directly with it
and its effects

Question 6

Avoidance
strategy

Answer 6

an effort to avoid
a stressor and
not deal directly
with it and its
effects