PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bipolar Disorder, Tornado Warning, Masturbation
May 15th, 2018
• Cognitive Intervention in terms of Cognitive Reframing
• Lazarus and Folkman’s Model
• Suggested that the brain is the central thing in this cognitive stress response
• Potential stress response is filtered by your personality (which is relatively stable, interacts with the
environment; temperament, your job, your values, your beliefs)
• Neurotic, resilient personality type are more dramatic with the stress response
• The personality is the lens through which you view your world
• So, the potential stressor is filtered through personality
1) Is it a threat?
2) Can I cope?
3) Cognitive reappraisal —> physiological stress response occurring, or not occurring
Example: Tornado warning
• Factors affecting this:
• Past experience with tornadoes
• Where you are in the moment (how vulnerable you are)
• Your responsibilities, your values (e.g., are you walking your baby while you see the alert on your
phone?)
• Previous knowledge—do you know about natural disasters?
• Severity of the threat—how close is it to your house?
• How much time do you have to prepare?
• IS A THREAT? — occurs along with: CAN I COPE?
• Two types of coping strategies:
• Problem-focused: you spring into ACTION—start taking steps to alleviate the stressor; knowledge;
background; having the supplies and equipment; thinking logically; seeking for help, information,
and support
• Emotion-focused: can be constructive or destructive; you try to shift the emotion, or, try to reconcile
it
• Example: having a dysfunctional family, and you feel very wiped, exhausted, run down, and
drained. You get sick over time
• You decide to to cut down the time you spend with your family
• Now you feel guilty about not spending so much time with them
• This shows emotion-focused coping
• Emotion-focused coping can also be something like putting the emotion away
• Example: relationship ending
• Negative emotions because of the relationship ending
• The two types of coping strategies are not mutually exclusive, they can often interplay
Exercise
• Think of a potential stressor, define it as a threat or a challenge, determine whether you can/have
cope(d), cognitive reappraisal
• Living with immediate family that constantly put me down about my just-having been diagnosed
with Bipolar Affective Disorder Type 1 with early onset and rapid cycling
• I felt angry, but that was constructive as I saw this stressor as a challenge
• I took action: I moved to Papa’s house, allowing a positive cognitive reappraisal about living
with family
Stress Response
• Helpful immediately
• Problematic when the stressor is non-stopping, ongoing, repetitive, or when you experience multiple
traumas
Role of Emotion in Thinking/Stress Response
• Emotions that come to us, come from our appraisal process
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Document Summary
Stress response: helpful immediately, problematic when the stressor is non-stopping, ongoing, repetitive, or when you experience multiple traumas. Role of emotion in thinking/stress response: emotions that come to us, come from our appraisal process. May 15th, 2018: thoughts and emotions have a bi-directional effect toward one another, cognitive theories posit that our cognitive processes affect the way we feel about ourselves, others, and the world, has strengths, and weaknesses. Albert ellis: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=gyre-78g_z0, be critical about this cognitive psychologist. Philosophy: our feelings are affected by the way we think, and, our thinking is also affected by the way we act and feel. Profoundly, change your philosophy and you"ll change your cognition and feelings. Thinks he has a gene for efficiency, whereas freud had a gene for inefficiency. Instead of (cid:1688)you made me feel sorry and regretful, but my anger came out first,(cid:1689) we say, (cid:1688)you made me angry(cid:1689)
