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| What does it mean to cope? |
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| An adaptation to new circumstances, awareness, knowledge, and growth |
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| The thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful |
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| Name 3 parts of the coping process |
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Primary appraisal
Secondary appraisal
Tertiary appraisal |
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| What is the primary appraisal? |
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Intellectual
Whent he person tries to evaluate the stress |
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| What is the secondary appraisal? |
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Thinking
When person begins to contemplate how to cope and what to do |
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| What is tertiary appraisal? |
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Acting
When the person puts the coping strategy into action |
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| Name 3 strategies for coping |
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1. Appraisal Focused Coping - thought process; looks at the stress and what caused it
2. Problem-Focused Coping: action; what they can do to change the situation
3. Emotion-Focused Coping: assess feelings and try to reduce the emotional stress |
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-Protects the individual from facing unpleasant topics, situations or thoughts
-Begins immediately
-People will do or pay anytihng for a cure at this point
-Can happen to pt or family |
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-Becomes a maladaptive behavior when it continually replaces reality
-"i wish" "what if"
-Only abnormal if the pt gets stuck here |
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-Subconscious, In repression - unpleasant experiences, thoughts, feelings are rejected from an individuals awareness
-Suppression - is consciously obstructing a thought or memory; trying not to remember the situation |
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| What is the difference between repression and suppression? |
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Repression in subconscious
Suppression in conscious |
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| Using faulty logic; Pt may think they do not need to walk when they really want to |
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-Blaming others for what happened
-Could also be where they have a prejudice against people with disabilities like they are not one also |
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-Changing your reaction to a more socially acceptable one
-The public sees you as a calm individual where internally they are extremly angry |
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-Anger and hostility are displaced to others unconsiously
-Pt is angry to hostile to others
-Often takes out on family
-Pt may not even be aware of how bad they are being |
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-Channeling inappropriate emotions, thoughts into positive actions or thoughts
-Taking bad thoughts and turning them into positive ones |
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-Protection against hurt, pain, etc the person may become increasingly isolated from others
-OK if temporary but can lead to depression |
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-Red Flag for depression
-The individual withdraws from people or events that trigger reminders for painful events |
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-Using intellectual reasoning to remove the emotional aspect of the situation
-Using your intellect to make a hard decision; remove emotions from the situation
-Common with end of life decisions |
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| Asking for forgiveness to nullify a wrong doing or inappropriate behavior |
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-Using won't last long if pt is cognitive
-Radical physical behavior rather than expressing feelings
-hostile; aggressively involved in rehab |
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-Returning to a place where the individual felt safe during a difficult situation
-Adult becoming child-like
-Dependency |
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-Emphasizing a strength to overcome areas that are weaker
-Help individual find a strength to overcome weaker areas
-Focus on something they can be good at |
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-Identifying with someone you admire to bolter your own self esteem
-Looking up to someone |
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-Adopting someone elses values, beliefs in order to help cope
-Finding a role model |
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| -A person may think there are more than one self in their body as a way to disengage with a painful event |
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-Coping with painful events separately
-Cannot deal with multiple things all at once |
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| Efforts to do something active to alleviate stressful circumstances |
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| Problem-Solving Coping Strategies |
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| -Efforts to regulate the emotional consequences of stressful or potentially stressful events |
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| Emotion-Focused Coping Strategies |
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| Nae 5 ways in which coping strategies are chosen |
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1. The predominance of one type of strategy over another is determined, in part, by: personal style or type of stressful event
2. People typically use problem-focused coping to deal with potential controllable problems such as work-related problems and family-related problems
3. Stressors perceived as less controllable, such as certain kinds of physical health problems, prompt more emotion-focused coping
4. Active coping strategies, whether behavioral or emotional, are thought to be better ways to deal with stressful events
5. Avoidant coping strategies appear to be a psychological risk factor or market for adverse responses to stressful life events |
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| Name some positive coping skills |
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Meditate
Stretch
Listen to music
TV
aerobic exercise
Reading
Fishing/Hunting
Recreational activities
Time with friends |
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| Name some negative coping skills |
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Act violently
Overeat
Stop eating
Excessive alcohol
Smoking
Driving fast
Drugs
Hit or kick things |
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| Name 4 mature coping strategies |
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1. Healthy and conscious relationship with reality
2. Reality is accepted even when it's not appreciated
3. People decide and choose to cope
4. Not spontaneous |
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| Name some implications for PT |
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- We must understand the defense mechanisms in coping
- Understand that when we see our pts they are often at their emotional and physical worst
- We should understand that "hope" plays an important role in healing
- We can nurture/encourage them throught he process and give them reality based information
- We must practice empathetic communication
- We must provide the individual with the equipment to face their challenges |
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