Chapter 4 Outline
Chapter 4
Outline
Coping strategies: active coping, planning, suppression of competing activities, restraint coping, seeking social support for instrumental reasons, seeking social support for emotional reasons, positive reinterpretation and growth, acceptance, turning to religion, focus on and venting of emotions, denial, behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement, alcohol-drug disengagement.
Learned helplessness: is a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
In adolescents, learned helplessness is linked with disengagement in academics and an increase depression.
Aggression: is any behavior intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally.
A team of psychologists proposed the frustration aggression hypothesis, which held that aggression is always due to frustration.
Catharsis: the release of emotional tension.
Stress sometimes leads to reduced impulse control, or self-indulgence.
Internet Addiction: consists of spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet and inability to control online use.
Constructive coping: to refer to efforts to deal with stressful events that are judged to be relatively healthful.
Constructive coping involves:
1) Confronting problems directly. It is task relevant and action oriented. It involves a conscious effort to rationally evaluate your options in an effort to solve your problems.
2) Effort. Using these strategies to reduce stress is an active process that involves planning.
3) Is based on reasonably realistic appraisals of your stress and coping resources. A little self-deception and highly unrealistic negative thinking are not.
4) Learning to recognize and manage potentially disruptive emotional reactions to stress.
5) Learning to exert some control over potentially harmful or destructive habitual behaviors. It requires the acquisition of some behavioral self-control.
Rational-emotive behavior therapy: is an approach to therapy that focuses on altering
Outline
Coping strategies: active coping, planning, suppression of competing activities, restraint coping, seeking social support for instrumental reasons, seeking social support for emotional reasons, positive reinterpretation and growth, acceptance, turning to religion, focus on and venting of emotions, denial, behavioral disengagement, mental disengagement, alcohol-drug disengagement.
Learned helplessness: is a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
In adolescents, learned helplessness is linked with disengagement in academics and an increase depression.
Aggression: is any behavior intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally.
A team of psychologists proposed the frustration aggression hypothesis, which held that aggression is always due to frustration.
Catharsis: the release of emotional tension.
Stress sometimes leads to reduced impulse control, or self-indulgence.
Internet Addiction: consists of spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet and inability to control online use.
Constructive coping: to refer to efforts to deal with stressful events that are judged to be relatively healthful.
Constructive coping involves:
1) Confronting problems directly. It is task relevant and action oriented. It involves a conscious effort to rationally evaluate your options in an effort to solve your problems.
2) Effort. Using these strategies to reduce stress is an active process that involves planning.
3) Is based on reasonably realistic appraisals of your stress and coping resources. A little self-deception and highly unrealistic negative thinking are not.
4) Learning to recognize and manage potentially disruptive emotional reactions to stress.
5) Learning to exert some control over potentially harmful or destructive habitual behaviors. It requires the acquisition of some behavioral self-control.
Rational-emotive behavior therapy: is an approach to therapy that focuses on altering