PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavioral Medicine, Health Psychology
10 May 2018
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Department
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Stress, Coping, and Health
Health psychology/ behavioral medicine
●An interdisciplinary field
●Assumes that health and wellness caused by a complex interaction
○Biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors
From “defense mechanisms’ to “coping”
●Concepts of “repression” and “defense” were used interchange in Freud’s early writings
●Defense mechanisms
○Freud made changes in 1926: “defense” became the general term for the ego
study
●“Coping” emerges
○Before 1960s word “coping” was used informally
○In 1960s “coping” began to acquire a meaning
○Research began to call some “adaptive” defenses as “coping” activities
Problem Focused
●Task-oriented efforts aimed at solving a stressful situation, cognitive restructuring the
problem, or attempts to alter the situation
Avoidance coping
●Activities and cognitive changes aimed at avoiding a stressful situation
●These can occur via social diversion, or by distracting oneself with other situations and
tasks
Emotion Focused Coping
●Reaction to stressful situations that may involve self- preoccupation, fantasy, or other
conscious activities related to affect regulation
Daydreams and Fantasies
●Most people have daydreams
●When they become intense enough, they are called fantasies
●Most daydreams and fantasies fit under one of the following core types
○Success or failure
○Aggression or hostility
○Sexual or romantic fantasies
○Guilt
Document Summary
Assumes that health and wellness caused by a complex interaction. Concepts of repression and defense were used interchange in freud"s early writings. Freud made changes in 1926: defense became the general term for the ego study. Before 1960s word coping was used informally. In 1960s coping began to acquire a meaning. Research began to call some adaptive defenses as coping activities. Task-oriented efforts aimed at solving a stressful situation, cognitive restructuring the problem, or attempts to alter the situation. Activities and cognitive changes aimed at avoiding a stressful situation. These can occur via social diversion, or by distracting oneself with other situations and tasks. Reaction to stressful situations that may involve self- preoccupation, fantasy, or other conscious activities related to affect regulation. When they become intense enough, they are called fantasies. Most daydreams and fantasies fit under one of the following core types.
