Community Psychology Final

Front 1

stress

Back 1

an imbalance between demands on you and your ability to respond to them

Front 2

person part of stress?

Back 2

how you perceive demands and your reaction to that pressure

Front 3

environment part

Back 3

the pressure(demand) comes from the environment

Front 4

Draw the chart of the model of coping

Back 4

--DRAWING--

Front 5

resources

Back 5

wat can help offset the impact of the stressors

Front 6

three categories of resources?

Back 6

material, social resources, personal resources

Front 7

material resource examples?

Back 7

$, job, housing, food, insurance

Front 8

social resources examples?

Back 8

relationships, community attachment, social networks

Front 9

personal resources examples?

Back 9

self-esteem, intelligence, coping style, communications

Front 10

resource vulnerable

Back 10

something could happen that could interfere with or facilitate these things being resources

Front 11

wat level do you want your resources to be in order to decrease the likelihood of becoming ill

Back 11

want less vulnerable resources--something firm like a mom or good friend

Front 12

5 categories of stress? describe each!

Back 12

Major life events, Daily hassles, Life transitions, Environmental/Chronic stressors, Vicious spirals

Front 13

coping

Back 13

reduces vulnerability to stress

Front 14

2 main challenges for a person facing a stressful life event?

Back 14

1) managing the internal stress reaction 2) how to take the appropriate course of action

Front 15

re-name the 3 steps in appraisal

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1) experience distress and react to watever ur intense feeling is 2) consider ur options 3) re-appraisal: now reappraise that threat because u know ur options

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2 types of coping strategies?

Back 16

problem-oriented- try to deal directly with source of stress-jumping in cab


emotion-oriented- try to reduce stress by controlling own emotional reactions- praying

Front 17

adjustment

Back 17

changing your behavior in order to change environmental stimulus

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adapting

Back 18

changing how you respond to some stressor and molding your behavior to fit the environment

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coping outcomes? name some

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symptoms and distress- psychological disorder or distress has been lessened, removed, or avoided


wellness- health?

thriving- did u achieve growth beyond just coping and going back to your previous state

social outcomes- social support added

cyclical process- coping occurs in cycles.

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3 ways social support can help offset stress?

Back 20

organize resources, buffer burden of stress, supply material/emotional

Front 21

generalized social support

Back 21

something we get from ongoing suport whether we have stressors or not (feeling belonging, care, etc.)

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specific social support

Back 22

problem-focused coping involves specific stressors( encouragement, informational, tangible) ($, self-esteem, advice)

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some dimensions of human diversity

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culture, race, ethnicity, gender, gender role, sexual orientation, class, age

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biculturally competent

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individual identifies or participates in meaningful ways with both their cultre of origin and the cominant culture

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psychological acculturation

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when you change because of contact with another cultural group. language or even behavior choice

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oppression

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inequality that used to give power/resources to one group and deny it to the other

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Liberation Perspective

Back 27

change in the system, to emancipate both the privileged and the oppressed

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1st and 2nd order of Liberation perspective?

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1st- currently oppressed replaces other group


2nd- aim of liberation

Front 29

internal oppression

Back 29

sense of inferiority from having limited resources controlled by dominate group