Healthy & Unhealthy Strategies Coping Healthy & Unhealthy Strategies

STRESSOR RESPONSE COPING Frustration, Conflict, Change, Pressure, & Personality RESPONSE Psychological & Physiological Response (Mind vs. Body) COPING (Healthy vs. Unhealthy Strategies)

Defense Mechanisms Unconscious reactions to protect the ego against anxiety Repression Reaction Formation Projection Displacement Sublimation

Defense Mechanismss Unconscious reactions to protect the ego against anxiety Repression

Defense Mechanisms Repression Keeping distressing thoughts and memories from conscious awareness

Defense Mechanismss Unconscious reactions to protect the ego against anxiety Repression Reaction Formation

Defense Mechanisms Reaction Formation Pets Killed By PETA Defense Mechanisms Reaction Formation Behaving in ways of opposite of your true feelings

Coping Active efforts to reduce, master, or tolerate the demands of stress

Healthy Approaches to Stress Catharsis To cleanse or to purge Predictability Predictable events are less stressful Perception of Control Feelings of control reduce stress Locus of Control Individuals’ sense of where life’s influences originate Social Network Having a social network reduces stress

Healthy Approaches to Stress Cognitive Change A strategy involving a change in the interpretation or focus of a stressful event

Unhealthy Approaches to Stress Learned Helplessness A passive response to stress

Self-Destructive Coping Explanations for Self-Destructive Behavior Self-Destructive Desire Tradeoffs

Self-Destructive Coping Self-Handicapping Engaging in action that decrease the chance of success Substance Abuse