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level: Coping with Stress

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level questions: Coping with Stress

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It is a dynamic situation-specific reaction to stress, which is a set of concrete responses to stressful situations or events that are intended to resolve the problem and reduce stress.Coping
Involves obtaining information about the stressful situation and about alternative courses of action. It also involves deciding prioritiesTask-Oriented Strategy
Involves efforts to maintain hope and to control one's emotions.Emotion-oriented Strategy
It involves denying or minimising the seriousness of the situation and also the conscious suppression of stressful thoughtsAvoidance-oriented Strategy
It refers to constantly changing cognitive and behavioural efforts to master, reduce or tolerate the internal or external demands that are created by the stressful situation.Lazarus and Folkman - Coping
It involves attacking the problem itself with behaviours designed to gain information , to alter the event, belief or commitmentsProblem focused strategy
These call for psychological changes designed primarily to limit the degree of emotional disruption caused by an eventEmotion focused strategy
active skill that reduces symptoms of stress and decreases incidence of illnessesRelaxation technique
Yogic method of meditation consists of a sequence of learned techniques for refocusing attention that brings about an altered state of consciousnessMeditation procedures
Procedure to monitor and reduce the physiological aspects of stress by providing feedback about current physiological activity and is accompanied by relaxation trainingBiofeedback
It is a subjective experience that involves imagery and imaginationCreative visualisation
By Meichenbaum - to replace negative and irrational thoughts with positive and rational onesCognitive Behavioural technique