UNIT 4.3. COPING MECHANISM AND MENTAL HYGIENE

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Coping

defined as the thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful

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Problem-focused coping

Coping Strategies/Skills:

  • involves attempts to do something constructive about the stressful conditions that are harming, threatening, or challenging an individual

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Emotion-focused coping

Coping Strategies/Skills:

  • involves efforts to regulate emotions experienced due to the stressful event

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Coping style

propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way

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approach

Coping Style:

  • confrontative, vigilant

  • wanting to address the problem, get it out in the open and deal with it

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avoidant

Coping Style:

  • minimizing

  • removing the stressor and avoiding it in the future is preferred

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Mental Hygiene

science of maintaining mental health and preventing the development of psychosis, neurosis, or other mental disorders

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The Preventive Approach

Approaches of Mental Hygiene:

  • practices to surround the individual with environmental influences that will enable to develop his/her full potentialities, to obtain emotional stability and to achieve personal and social adequacy

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The Therapeutic Approach

Approaches of Mental Hygiene:

  • attempt to correct minor behavioural adjustments through counseling and psychotherapy

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The Curative Approach

Approaches of Mental Hygiene:

  • concerned with detection and correction of serious but curative behavioural maladjustments

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SELF-CARE

  • “the practice of activities that a mature person initiates and performs, within a time frame, to promote and maintain personal well-being, healthy functioning, and continuing development throughout life” (Orem, 2001)

  • IS SELF-COMPASSION

  • defined as a healthy attitude toward oneself and is assumed to influence individuals’ evaluations of potentially threatening situations (Neff, 2003)

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Self-compassion

describes a positive and caring attitude of a person toward her- or himself in the face of failures and individual shortcomings

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resilience

Long-term benefits of self-care:

1. Self-care boosts _________

2. Self-care can maximize ___________ factors

3. Self-care can minimize the _____ factors

4. Self-care can strengthen our _____________

5. Self-care is a good ______________ measure

1 = ?

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protective

Long-term benefits of self-care:

1. Self-care boosts _________

2. Self-care can maximize ___________ factors

3. Self-care can minimize the _____ factors

4. Self-care can strengthen our _____________

5. Self-care is a good ______________ measure

2 = ?

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risk

Long-term benefits of self-care:

1. Self-care boosts _________

2. Self-care can maximize ___________ factors

3. Self-care can minimize the _____ factors

4. Self-care can strengthen our _____________

5. Self-care is a good ______________ measure

3 = ?

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character

Long-term benefits of self-care:

1. Self-care boosts _________

2. Self-care can maximize ___________ factors

3. Self-care can minimize the _____ factors

4. Self-care can strengthen our _____________

5. Self-care is a good ______________ measure

4 = ?

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preventive

Long-term benefits of self-care:

1. Self-care boosts _________

2. Self-care can maximize ___________ factors

3. Self-care can minimize the _____ factors

4. Self-care can strengthen our _____________

5. Self-care is a good ______________ measure

5 = ?