Problem-Focused Coping
Emotion-Focused Coping
Post-Traumatic Growth
Specific Strategies
BONUS!
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What is problem-focused coping?
Coping by taking a specific situation into your 'own hands', act on it, attempt to resolve it, problem-solving.
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True or False: Emotion-focused coping is more beneficial to people than problem-focused coping.
False: Both types of coping are valuable, depending on the individual and their situation. Some researchers have actually taught people how to use both strategies, but the best route would be to assess the trauma or loss to see how to best approach it.
100
Some psychologists believe that finding benefit in trauma represents a true personal ________________. A. road-block B. transformation C. positive memory
B. Transformation.
100
What is social support?
When dealing with a problem people will often turn to loved ones for either emotional, physical, or spiritual support.
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What coping strategy is being used? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urb2720xKv0
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200
You are feeling completely overwhelmed at work with your supervisor and your current workload. Give an example of how you could use problem-focused coping.
Example: *Talk with your supervisor about yoru duties *Create a new, feasible work schedule *Look into a new job *Focus on the things in your job you enjoy
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What is an example of when to use emotion-focused coping?
Example: When a loved one has died and you cannot "fix" the problem. The only coping you can do is manage your emotional reactions to the event.
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What type of support is one of the most effective coping strategies for trauma that exist?
Social support. It not only makes us less anxious and depressed but even affects our bodies.
200
True or False? Women cancer patients who attended weekly support groups have been found to live an average of eighteen months longer.
True! In the book The How of Happiness a study was done that focused on women facing life threatening cancer. Those who actively sought social support as coping strategy immediately after surgery showed greater natural killer cell activity. Remarkably, this finding indicates that using social support may have triggered these women's immune systems to fight their cancer more aggressively.
200
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. -Ralph Blum
Free points! Yay!
300
True or False. Problem-focused coping involves getting advice from others.
True. Successful problem solvers need to reach out to see other points of view in solving their problems.
300
What is an example of Behavioral strategies?
This phrase is a type of a emotion-focused strategy:"I can't deal with this pain right now. I think I will go for a hike and lift my spirits."
300
Give an example of finding meaning in response to a loss or a trauma
*Gold star!
300
What is Thought Disputation?
Arguing with your own overly pessimistic thoughts rather than letting those thoughts control you. Example: My boyfriend/girlfriend hasn't called me today. "They must not like me anymore." Challenge thought: "Perhaps they have been extremely busy (I remember them mentioning a big project for school)"
300
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. -Henry David Thoreau
Happy face!
400
Is problem-focused coping more effective than emotion-focused coping?
NO. Research shows that both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping is essential when you cope with a chronic problem.
400
What is an example of looking for something good in what is happening?
"Dang, my car just broke down and now I have to fix it, but I am not sure how to!" "Well that was a pain in the neck, but I did learn how to fix the water pump on my car so next time it will not be as big a deal."
400
True or False. Survivors of trauma experience little distress as they report strengthening and progressing after the trauma.
False. Survivors experience a great deal of distress at the same time.
400
True or False: Acknowledging, responding, and growing are all part of the coping strategy for construing benefit in trauma through writing or conversing?
True. A person must first acknowledge the loss or trauma that has caused great pain and suffering. Then they must find the ways they are proud of where they responded to the loss or trauma. Last they will need to consider how they have grown from the incident/s.
400
What strategy is Tom Hanks using? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuElJTDR5QM
HUMOR! Just laugh about it!
500
Give an example of how you have used problem-focused coping at any point in your life (or know someone who has....)
:) You're right!
500
What is an example positively reinterpreting the situation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmh0Tu5EUM
500
What is the difference with someone who 'recovers' in the aftermath of a trauma and someone who 'thrives' in the aftermath?
Recovery - a person who suffers after trauma for a period of time, but who eventually returns to his original state. Thriving - someone who also suffers after trauma but who ultimately not only returns to their original state but rises above it.
500
What is an example of Finding meaning through expressive writing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0vh2x_JAiQ
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"But we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us." -Romans 5:5
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