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17 Cards in this Set
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coping
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Involves managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve life's problems, and seeking to mater or reduce stress.
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problem-focused coping
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Lazarus's term for the strategy of squarely facing one's troubles and trying to solve them.
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emotion-focused coping
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Lazarus's term for responding to stress in an emotional manner, especially by using defense mechanisms.
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active-cognitive strategies
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Coping responses in which individuals actively think about a situation in an effort adjust more effectively.
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active-behavioral strategies
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Coping responses in which individuals take some type of action to improve their problem situation.
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avoidance coping strategies
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Responses to keep stressful circumstances out of awareness.
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cognitive restructuring
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Process of replacing thoughts, ideas, and beliefs that maintain an individual's problems.
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self-talk
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Also called self-statements, self-talk refers to the soundless, mental speech people use when they think about something, plan, or solve problems.
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thought stopping
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A specific self-control strategy in which the individual says "Stop!" when an unwanted thought occurs and then immediately replaces it with a more pleasant thought.
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empowerment
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The term used for assisting individuals to develop skills they need to control their own lives.
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social support
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Information and feedback from others that one is loved and cared for, esteemed and valued, and included in a network of communication and mutual obligation.
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emotional regulation
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The process by which individuals control which emotions they experience, when they experience them, and how they experience and show them.
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emotional intelligence
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The ability to perceive and express emotion, understand emotion, and regulate emotion.
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stress-management programs
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They teach individuals how to appraise stressful events, how to develop skills for with stress, and how to put these skills into use in one's everyday life.
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meditation
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A system of mental exercises that help the individual to attain bodily or mental control and well-being, as well as enlightenment.
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biofeedback
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The process by which individuals' muscular or visceral activities are monitored by instruments, then the information from the instruments is given (fed back) to the individuals so they can learn to voluntarily control their psychological activities.
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personal control - resourcefulness
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“high resourceful individuals do not differ from low resourceful individuals in their evaluation of the stressor, ......they do differ in their ability to reduce the interfering effects of the stress reaction on ongoing behaviors”
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