Stress management

Stress management

1. transactional model

   • weighing up of demands and resources
     • inducing a psychobiological stress response
       • behavioural
       • affect
       • cognitive
       • behavioural

2. 4 stages of stress management

   • recognition
   • understanding
   • skill development
   • appropriate attitudes and beliefs

3. systematic desensitisation

   • method of eliminating fears by substituting a response that is incompatible with anxiety i.e. relaxation
   • based on operant conditioning
   • flooding can be used
   • helps the individual confront their fear in a systematic and ordered way
     • heirachy of fears
       • upgrading each time

4. Types of stress management

   • physical approaches
     • medication, biofeedback, massage, exercise
   • general psych approaches
     • relaxation. mindfulness, meditation, music therapy
   • Behavioural
     • desensitisation, modelling. role play
   • specific psych approaches
     • CBT