UNIT 4 CARING THE SELF

• Multiple stress may increase the water level inour bucket so we need to TURN ON our copingmechanism taps
• Nature of Coping

  • refers to thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful.
• Emotion focused coping

  involves efforts to regulate emotions experienced due to the stressful event
• Problem focused coping

  attempts to do something constructive about the stressful conditions that are harming, threatening, or challenging anindividual.
• Approach (confrontative, vigilant)

  • wanting to address the problem, get it out in the open and deal with it
• Avoidant (minimizing)

  • The reverse – where removing the stressor and avoiding it in the future is preferred. is a propensity to deal with stressful events in a particular way
• Mental Hygiene

  • the science of maintaining mental health and preventing the development of psychosis, neurosis, or other mental disorders.
• The Preventive Approach

  – 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.
• The Therapeutic Approach

  – attempt to correct minor behavioural adjustments through counseling and psychotherapy.
• The Curative Approach

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

  is “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)
• PHYSICAL- Tending to your physical body by keeping it healthy
• MENTAL- Engaging in activities that support learning and healthy mindset
• Emotional

  • Staying in touch with or fully engage in your emotions
• social

  • Staying connected with family and friends
• spiritual

  • Keeping a close relationship with God
• Physical Self-Care

  • get enough sleep
  • eat well and healthy
  • exercise
• mental self care- taking care of your mind
• emotional self care

  • Acknowledge your feelings
  • Practice gratitude
  • unplug from technology
• social self care

  • maintain connections w others
  • reach out someone
  • make new friends
• spiritual self care

  • praying, reading
  • Take time-off to appreciate beauty such as nature, music, or art and immerse yourself to these wonders
  • “greater purpose”
• 5 LOVE LANGUAGE

  • physical touch
  • acts of service
  • receiving gifts
  • quality time
  • words of affirmation
• RELLIENCE

  • To bend but not break
  • To bounce back
  • To grow amidst adversities
  • process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress
  • latin word “resilire” means to jump back