PERDEV WEEK 4 MIDTERM

• COPING WITH STRESS IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADOLESCENCE

  • Adolescence is a period that extends greater than considerate fraction of a person's life.

  • Adolescence can be confusing very confusing, even for well adjusted adolescent.

  • However, each adolescent experiences individual changes and growth at different rates
• Stress - defined as a reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm, or equilibrium of a person.
• DEFINING STRESS

  • Stress is the means your body reacts to challenges and makes you all set to face them with strength, attention, and energy.
  • When stress overloads your life, you will experience both physical and emotional disturbances.
  • Stress impacts the thinking and feelings of adolescents plus their behaviors later on in adulthood.
• Three ways to view stress

  • stress as stimulus
  • stress as a response
  • stress as relational
• Two types of stress

  Eustress

  Distress
• Eustress


  Good stress that motivates you to continue working
• Distress

  Stress that describes unpleasant feeling that may cause problem in your mind
• Two type of stressor


  External and Internal
• External

  Come outside of you like situation, people, and experience.
• Internal


  Come from within you like thoughts that include fear, uncertainties about the future, and etc.
• Stress and its source

  Academic Stress

  Social Stress

  Financial Stress

  Family Stress

  Romantic Stress
• Stress Diary


  Is a written output where you share your personal experiences in dealing with stress and how you respond to it.
• Coping


  The process of spending conscious effort and energy to solve personal and interpersonal problems
• Coping strategies


  • Positive (adaptive)
  • Negative (maladaptive)
• Positive (adaptive) coping strategies


  • Successfully diminish the amount of stress being experienced and provide constructive feedback for the user
• Maladaptive


  A stress that describes unpleasant feelings that may cause problems in your mind
• Examples of Adaptive Coping

  • Social coping. •Meaning-Focused Coping
  • Proactive Coping
• Negative Coping or Proactive Coping

  • Negative coping - Strategies that might be successful at managing or abating stress, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive
  • Proactive coping - While these strategies provide short-term relief, they serve to maintain the disorder
• Maladaptive strategies


  • Dissociation
  • Sensitization
  • Numbing out
  • Anxious avoidance of a problem
  • Escape
• Three most common distinctions


  • Appraisal-Focused Strategy
  • Problem-Focused Strategy
  • Emotion-Focused Strategy
• Coping ability and strategy selection

  • Vary depending on personality, gender, and culture
• Positive demeanor and outlook on life


  Perceives less stress and is better equipped to manage stress when it does arise
• Static view of the world


  Perceives more stress and is less adept at addressing the stressor in their lives
• Men


  More often develop career- or work-related stress
• Women


  More prone to stress about interpersonal relationships
• Coping strategy selection


  • Women engage in more emotion-focused coping
  • Men tend to use problem-focused strategies
• Conventional stress management method


  Most popular in the Western world, familiar to most people and their effects on stress
• Alternative stress management method


  Focuses on the person experiencing stress, providing methods for mental reframing or management
• Conventional Methods

  • Traditional medicine
  • Psychiatric therapy
  • Anxiety-reducing medications
• Alternative Methods

  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Transactional model of stress