CMS 315M Lecture 10: Stress and Coping
20 Mar 2017
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Never going to live stress-free lives, so we need to know how to deal with it. Stress: what is stress, something that contradicts your goals, poses a threat to your plans, stress: when the demands of your environment exceed your actual or. 3/1/16 perceived available resources: demands > resources, sources of stress, can be yourself, relationships. Ex. flat tire, it could be worse the engine could have fallen out: secondary appraisal evaluate the resources available. Ex. flat tire, but i have a spare tire and i know how to change a flat: reappraisal reframing the stressor in terms of the coping efforts. Coping: what is coping, efforts to manage a stressor, action taken to deal with a stressor, inaction/ignoring the stressor, approaches to coping, individual. Problem-focused try to fix the problem. Emotion focused try to fix how you feel about/deal with the problem. Ex. after a breakup you can curl up on the couch and eat ice cream.
