Stress Management

Physical, cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal techniques

Behavioral and cognitive efforts to master, manage, reduce or tolerate the internal and/or external demands created by stress (continuous attempt)

Personality and nature of stressor

Designed to manage the problem causing the stress (overall better form)

Women-family situations men-work

When situation is controllable/changable

Designed to regulate negative emotions and distress experienced because of the stressful event

Women

Situation is controllable

Emotion, then problem

1) accurate/adaptive appraisal 2) adequate repertoire of responses/skills 3) deploy appropriate coping responses at appropriate time 4) return to baseline functioning

1) teach what stress is and how to identify it 2) teach skills and practice them 3) use sills in real life situations and monitor effectiveness

Multifocused eliminate all stress

Didactic teaching, Socratic discussions, cognitive restructuring, problem solving training, relaxation training, behavioral and imaginal rehearsal, self-monitoring, self-instruction, self-rft, environmental change

hypnosis (stoppin bad habits, analgesia for pain) meditation imagery techniques (imagining oneself in calm...) progressive muscle relaxation (how to recognize and relax muscle tension) physical exercise