PSYC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 59, 64: Guided Imagery
11 Mar 2016
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Health psychology: stress management the application of cognitive and behavioural strategies to reduce stress and improve coping skills, managing body reactions. Stress-management techniques focus on one of three areas: bodily effects, ineffective behaviour, and upsetting thoughts. All of the following are good ways to manage bodily reactions to stress: exercise, meditation, progressive relaxation, and guided imagery: modifying ineffective behaviour. To minimize ineffective behaviour when you are stressed, you can slow down, get organized, balance work and relaxation, accept your limits, seek social support, and write about your feelings: counteract upsetting thoughts. Learning to use coping statements is a good way to combat upsetting thoughts. Suicide: mental disorders is a major factor in many of canadian suicides. Many factors affect suicide some of them are . Sex man have higher rates of suicide, this rate has increased in recent years, while women rate is still the same.
