Conflict
4 Types of Conflict
What is approach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, approach-avoidance, multiple approach-avoidance conflicts
Extreme events that cause psychological injury or intense emotional pain.
What is traumatic stress?
Retreating to an earlier level of development or to earlier, less demanding habits or situations
What is regression?
Diverting a thought or behavior from its natural target toward a less threatening one.
What is displacement?
Mastery training
What is reinforcement of responses that lead to mastery of a threat or control over one’s environment.
Being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each of several alternatives.
What is multiple approach-avoidance conflicts
Emotion focused coping
What is managing or controlling one’s emotional reaction to a stressful or threatening situation
Rationalization
What is Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior.
program that teaches youths how to resist pressures to begin smoking (also can be applied to other drugs and health risks).
What is refusal skills training
method for producing deep relaxation of all parts of the body.
What is progressive relaxation?
Choosing between two positive, desirable alternatives
What is approach-approach conflict?
Directly managing or remedying a stressful or threatening situation.
What is Problem focused coping
Preventing dangerous impulses from being expressed in behavior by exaggerating opposite behavior.
What is reaction formation?
Depression
What is state of despondency marked by feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness.
Coping Statements
What is reassuring, self-enhancing statements that are used to stop self-critical thinking
Being attracted to and repelled by the same goal or activity
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
Defense mechanism
What is a protective behavior that reduces anxiety (Freud's personality theory)
Counteracting a real or imagined weakness by emphasizing desirable traits or seeking to excel in the area of weakness or in other areas.
What is compensation?
program that teaches stress reduction, self-protection, decision making, self-control, and social skills.
What is Life skills training
Guided Imagery
What is Intentional visualization of images that are calming, relaxing, or beneficial in other ways.
Choosing between two negative, undesirable alternatives
What is avoidance-avoidance conflict?
Protecting oneself from an unpleasant reality by refusing to acknowledge or perceive it
What is denial
Projection
What is Attributing one’s own feelings, shortcomings, or unacceptable impulses to others
Learned Helplessness
Belief that one cannot control the outcome of events
Use of positive coping statements to control fear and anxiety.
What is stress inoculation?