This document discusses different types of coping strategies for dealing with stress. It defines coping as efforts to manage and reduce stress from problems or difficult situations. There are three main types of coping strategies: appraisal-focused coping which involves changing one's thinking about a problem; problem-focused coping which aims to directly address and solve the problem; and emotion-focused coping which focuses on managing emotional reactions to stress. Examples of problem-focused coping include time management and role negotiation, while emotion-focused coping techniques include releasing emotions, distraction, and positive reappraisal. Coping strategies can be adaptive or maladaptive depending on the individual and situation.
Stress is a real or interpreted threat to the physiological or psycho social and/or behavioral response due to various factor that have to managed so that it may not lead into fatal psychiatric conditions
Jacobson Progressive Muscle Relaxation is one of the simplest and easiest techniques of relaxation.
JPMR is a two-step relaxation practice to reduce stress and build awareness of sensations of tension and deep relaxation in various muscle groups.
The first step in this practice is to create tension in specific muscle groups and begin to notice what tension feels like in this body part.
The second step is to then release this muscle tension and begin to notice what a relaxed muscle feels like as the tension drains away. By moving through the body by alternately tensing and relaxing different muscle groups in a certain order, one builds awareness of how to recognize and differentiate between the associated feelings of a tensed muscle and a completely relaxed one.
Group therapy is a type of psychotherapy wherein therapisr treats a group of people together. Group members meet at regular sessions to resolve their symptoms or conflicts.
Stress is a real or interpreted threat to the physiological or psycho social and/or behavioral response due to various factor that have to managed so that it may not lead into fatal psychiatric conditions
Jacobson Progressive Muscle Relaxation is one of the simplest and easiest techniques of relaxation.
JPMR is a two-step relaxation practice to reduce stress and build awareness of sensations of tension and deep relaxation in various muscle groups.
The first step in this practice is to create tension in specific muscle groups and begin to notice what tension feels like in this body part.
The second step is to then release this muscle tension and begin to notice what a relaxed muscle feels like as the tension drains away. By moving through the body by alternately tensing and relaxing different muscle groups in a certain order, one builds awareness of how to recognize and differentiate between the associated feelings of a tensed muscle and a completely relaxed one.
Group therapy is a type of psychotherapy wherein therapisr treats a group of people together. Group members meet at regular sessions to resolve their symptoms or conflicts.
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Coping with Stress If living is inevitably stressful, and if chron.docxdickonsondorris
Coping with Stress If living is inevitably stressful, and if chronic stress can disrupt your life and even kill you, you need to learn how to manage stress. Coping refers to the process of dealing with internal or external demands that are perceived as straining or exceeding an individual’s resources (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Coping may consist of behavioral, emotional, or motivational responses and thoughts. This section begins by describing how cognitive appraisal affects what you experience as stressful. We then consider types of coping responses, including both general principles of coping and specific interventions. Finally, we consider some individual differences in individuals’ ability to cope with stress. coping The process of dealing with internal or external demands that are perceived to be threatening or overwhelming. Appraisal of Stress When you cope with stressful situations, your first step is to define in what ways they are, in fact, stressful. Cognitive appraisal is the cognitive interpretation and evaluation of a stressor. Cognitive appraisal plays a central role in defining the situation—what the demand is, how big a threat it is, and what resources you have for meeting it (Lazarus, 1993; Lazarus & Lazarus, 1994). Some stressors, such as undergoing bodily injury or finding one’s house on fire, are experienced as threats by almost everyone. However, many other stressors can be defined in various ways, depending on your personal life situation, the relation of a particular demand to your central goals, your competence in dealing with the demand, and your self-assessment of that competence. The situation that causes acute distress for another person may be all in a day’s work for you. Try to notice, and understand, the life events that are different for you and your friends and family: Some situations cause you stress but not your friends and family; other events cause them stress but not you. Why? Table 12.2 Stages in Stable Decision Making/Cognitive Appraisal Stage Key Questions 1. Appraising the challenge Are the risks serious if I don’t change? 2. Surveying alternatives Is this alternative an acceptable means for dealing with the challenge? Have I sufficiently surveyed the available alternatives? 3. Weighing alternatives Which alternative is best? Could the best alternative meet the essential requirements? 4. Deliberating about commitment Will I implement the best alternative and allow others to know? 5. Adhering despite negative feedback Are the risks serious if I don’t change? Are the risks serious if I do change? Richard Lazarus, whose general theory of appraisal was addressed in the discussion of emotions, distinguished two stages in the cognitive appraisal of demands. Primary appraisal describes the initial evaluation of the seriousness of a demand. This evaluation starts with the questions “What’s happening?” and “Is this thing good for me, stressful, or irrelevant?” If the answer to the second question is “stressful.
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2. WHAT IS COPING……???
Coping pretty much describes all the different things people
do to manage and reduce the stress they feel as a result of
issues, problems or difficult situations that occur.
Everyone experiences different levels of stress, and also
have different ways of coping, which is completely fine.
There isn’t a ‘right’ way to cope ,different strategies work
well for different people, depending on their personal
strengths and skills.
3. MEANING OF COPING
• In psychology, coping is expending conscious effort to solve
personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master,
minimize or tolerate stress or conflict.
• Psychological coping mechanisms are commonly termed coping
strategies or coping skills.
5. APPRAISAL-FOCUSED.
(ADAPTIVE COGNITIVE)
• Directed towards challenging one's own assumptions, adaptive
cognitive.
• occur when the person modifies the way they think,
• Exp: employing denial, or distancing oneself from the problem.
People may alter the way they think about a problem by altering
their goals and values, such as by seeing the humor in a situation:
"some have suggested that humor may play a greater role as a
stress moderator among women than men
6. PROBLEM-FOCUSED.
(ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR)
• Directed towards reducing or eliminating a stressor, adaptive
behavioral
• People using problem-focused strategies try to deal with the
cause of their problem. They do this by finding out information on
the problem and learning new skills to manage the problem.
Problem-focused coping is aimed at changing or eliminating the
source of the stress. The three problem-focused coping strategies
identified by Folkman and Lazarus are taking control, information
seeking, and evaluating the pros and cons
7. PROBLEM-FOCUSED
EXAMPLE
• Time Management
• Mentoring (advise)
• Role Negotiation: Role negotiation is a process for clarifying the
expectations. We negotiate with an individual not a group.
8. EMOTION-FOCUSED.
• Directed towards changing one's own emotional reaction.
• involve releasing pent-up emotions (in hearted), distracting
oneself, managing hostile feelings(enemies), meditating or using
systematic relaxation procedures.
• Emotion-focused coping "is oriented toward managing the
emotions that accompany the perception of stress.
9. FIVE EMOTION-FOCUSED COPING STRATEGIES
• Disclaiming.
• Escape-avoidance.
• Accepting responsibility or blame.
• Exercising self-control.
• Positive reappraisal.