Unit 6: Stress & Anger Management

92 Pages·2011·1.27 MB·English

by  Don Christensen

Unit 6: Stress & Anger
Management
I. Concepts of Stress
II. Situational Factors Affecting Stress
III. Personal Factors Affecting Stress
IV. Mediational Model of Stress
V. Implications for Stress Interventions
VI. Relaxation as a Multidimensional Response
VII. Somatic Relaxation
VIII. Cognitive Relaxation
Unit 6: Stress & Anger
Management
IX. Thought and Emotion
X. Cognitive Distortions
XI. A-B-C Theory of Emotion
XII. Cognitive Restructuring
XIII. Self-Instructional Training
XIV. Integrated Coping Response
XV. Rehearsal of Coping Responses
XVI. Understanding Burnout
XVII. Coping with Burnout
Definitions of Stress
• Stress as a Stimulus (stressors)
• Stress as a Response (feeling stressed)
• Stress as a Person-Situation Transaction
A Transactional Definition of Stress
Stress is a particular relationship or
transaction between a person and the
environment that is appraised by the
person as taxing or exceeding his/her
resources and/or endangering his/her
well being, (Lazarus and Folkman)
Three Types of Appraisals
• Primary
– What is the nature of the stressor?
• Secondary
– What kinds of resources do I posses to cope
with this stressor?
• Reappraisal
– Reassessment of situational given additional
information and/or secondary appraisal
Situational Factors Affecting Stress
• Predictability
– Event Uncertainty
• Ambiguity
• Novelty
• Imminence
• Controllability
Personal Factors Affecting
Stress
• Motives, Goals, & Values
• Beliefs
– Personal Control Beliefs
– Existential Beliefs
• Personality Factors: Hardiness
• Coping Skills
The Three Cs of Hardiness
• Challenge
• Commitment
• Control
Coping Defined
Coping is a process of constantly
changing cognitive and behavioral efforts
to manage specific internal or external
demands that are appraised as taxing or
exceeding a person’s resources.
Stages of Coping
• Anticipatory
• Impact
• Post Impact