1. Healthy & Unhealthy Strategies
Coping
Healthy & Unhealthy Strategies

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

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

4. Defense Mechanismss
Unconscious reactions to protect the ego against anxiety
Repression

5. Defense Mechanisms Repression
Keeping distressing thoughts and memories from conscious awareness

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

7. Defense Mechanisms Reaction Formation
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Defense Mechanisms
Reaction Formation
Behaving in ways of opposite of your true feelings

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

9. 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

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

11. Unhealthy Approaches to Stress
Learned Helplessness
A passive response to stress

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

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