Meeting Life Challenges
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| The non-specific response of a body to any demand | Hans Selye definition of stress |
| Cognitive Theory of Stress | By Lazarus and his colleagues |
| Perception of a new or changing environment as positive, neutral or negative in its consequences | Primary Appraisal |
| Assessment of one's coping abilities and resources and whether they will be enough to meet the challenge, harm or threat | Secondary Appraisal |
| Past experience and controllability | Factors influencing appraisal |
| Demands that change the state of our body | Physical stresses |
| Aspects of our surroundings that are often unavoidable or are catastrophic events | Environmental stresses |
| Those that we generate ourselves in our mind | Psychological stresses |
| These include being involved in a variety of extreme events like fire, accident, war etc | Traumatic events |
| Three stages : Alarm reaction, Resistance and Exhaustion | General Adaptation Syndrome |
| It focuses on the links between the mind, the brain and the immune system. It studies the effects of stress on the immune system | Psychoneuroimmunology |
| White blood cells | Leucocytes |
| Foreign bodies | Antigens |
| Agents causing physical illness | Pathogens |
| Involves obtaining information about the stressful situation and about alternative courses of action. It also involves deciding priorities | Task-Oriented Strategy |
| Involves efforts to maintain hope and to control one's emotions. | Emotion-oriented Strategy |
| It involves denying or minimising the seriousness of the situation and also the conscious suppression of stressful thoughts | Avoidance-oriented Strategy |
| It involves attacking the problem itself with behaviours designed to gain information , to alter the event, belief or commitments | Problem focused strategy |
| These call for psychological changes designed primarily to limit the degree of emotional disruption caused by an event | Emotion focused strategy |
| Active skill that reduces symptoms of stress and decreases incidence of illnesses | Relaxation technique |
| Yogic method of meditation consists of a sequence of learned techniques for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousness | Meditation procedures |
| It is a subjective experience that involves imagery and imagination | Creative visualisation |
| By Meichenbaum - to replace negative and irrational thoughts with positive and rational ones | Cognitive Behavioural technique |
| Skill that helps to communicate, clearly and confidently, our thoughts, feelings, needs and wants | Assertiveness |
| Communication consisting of listening, expressing and accepting is key to long lasting relationships | Improving relationships |
| It means putting off what we know we need to do to avoid confronting their. fears of failure or rejection | Procrastination |
| Quality of social support | Perceived support |
| Quantity of social support | Social network |
| Assistance involving material aid | Tangible support |