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Cherokee 2011
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Refusal Skills Training: Program that teaches young people how to resist pressures to begin smoking Life Skills Training: Teaches stress reduction, self-protection, decision making, self-control, and social skills Wellness: Positive state of good health and well-being
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Mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment Includes marital and financial problems Eustress: Good stress (e.g., travel, dating) Stress Reaction: Physical response to stress Autonomic Nervous System is aroused Stressor: Condition or event that challenges or threatens the person Pressure: When a person must meet urgent external demands or expectations
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Burnout: Job-related condition (usually in helping professions) of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. Has three aspects: Emotional Exhaustion: Feel “used up” and “empty” Cynicism or detachment from others Feeling of reduced personal accomplishment
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Primary Appraisal: Deciding if a situation is relevant or irrelevant, positive or threatening Secondary Appraisal: Deciding how to cope with a threat or challenge Perceived lack of control is just as threatening as an actual lack of control
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Problem-Focused Coping: Managing or altering the distressing situation Emotion-Coping Focusing: Trying to control one’s emotional reactions to the situation Frustration: Negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching desired goals External Frustration: Based on external conditions that impede progress toward a goal Personal Frustration: Caused by personal characteristics that impede progress toward a goal
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Aggression: Any response made with the intention of doing harm Displaced Aggression: Redirecting aggression to a target other than the source of one’s frustration Scapegoating: Blaming a person or group for conditions they did not create; the scapegoat is a habitual target of displaced aggression Escape: May mean actually leaving a source of frustration (dropping out of school) or psychologically escaping (apathy)
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A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between contradictory needs, desires, motives, or demands Avoidance-Avoidance Conflicts: Being forced to choose between two negative or undesirable alternatives (e.g., choosing between going to the doctor or contracting cancer) NOT choosing may be impossible or undesirable Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: Being attracted (drawn to) and repelled by the same goal or activity; attraction keeps person in the situation, but negative aspects can cause distress Ambivalence: Mixed positive and negative feelings; central characteristic of approach-avoidance conflicts
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Double Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: Each alternative has both positive and negative qualities Vacillation: When one is attracted to both choices; seeing the positives and negatives of both choices and going “back and forth” before deciding, if deciding at all! Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: When several alternatives have positive and negative features
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1. Approach-approach conflicts 1. Approach-approach conflicts : positive equal value Both outcomes are positive and both are of approximately equal value. We would like to approach both outcomes but only one is possible. Example = choosing between two good job offers.
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3. Approach-avoidance conflicts: Achieving the positive outcome requires accepting a negative outcome as well. People want the positive outcome but also want to avoid the negative outcome. Example Example : marrying your girlfriend against your parents wishes means they will take you out of their will.
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4.Multiple approach-avoidance conflicts: Both outcomes have positive and negative consequences. Example Example : one job pays poorly but your boss is easygoing; the other job pays extremely well but the boss is a taskmaster.
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Acquired (learned) inability to overcome obstacles and avoid aversive stimuli; learned passivity Occurs when events appear to be uncontrollable May feel helpless if failure is attributed to lasting, general factors
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Type A Personality: Personality type with elevated risk of heart attack; characterized by time urgency and chronic anger or hostility Anger and hostility may be the key factors of this behavior Type B Personality: All types other than Type As; unlikely to have a heart attack
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Personality type associated with superior stress resistance Sense of personal commitment to self and family Feel they have control over their lives See life as a series of challenges,
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) Series of bodily reactions to prolonged stress; occurs in three stages
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Stage of Resistance: Body adjusts to stress but at a high physical cost; resistance to other stressors Is lowered
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Stage of Exhaustion: Body’s resources are drained and stress hormones are depleted, possibly resulting in: Psychosomatic disease Loss of health Complete collapse
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