PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Unintended Pregnancy, Face Validity, Spurious Relationship

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3690
• Professor: Benjamin Gottlieb

Document Summary

The coping process: an alternative to traditional formulations (lazarus & folkman) Coping as constantly changing cognitive behavioural efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person (process- oriented) Coping includes anything that the person does or thinks, regardless of how well or badly it works. Observations and assessments are concerned with what the person actually thinks or does. Coping is a shifting process in which a person must, at certain times, relay more heavily on one form of coping, say defensives strategies, and at other times on problem-solving strategies, as the status of the person-environment relationship changes. Re-evaluation process or reappraisal, in turn influences subsequent coping efforts. The coping process is thus continuously mediated by cognitive reappraisals (follow and modify an earlier appraisal) Shontz coping stages for those dealing with a physical illness: shock, encounter, retreat, reality testing.