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1
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Define transactional stress

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Condition… person/ environment TRANSACTIONS… perceive DISCREPANCY between DEMANDS and COPING RESOURCES

2
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Recall an application of transactional stress

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Hospitalisation:

Mental stress of threat to wellbeing, insufficient coping resource as they can’t really do anything about it

3
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What sorts of information can be given to a patient to help them deal with the transactional stress of a procedure? Define these.

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Procedural information (info reprocedures)
Sensory information (info re sensations to be experienced)
4
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What is the Dual Process Hypothesis?

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Proposition that procedural and sensory information work in different ways - procedural info allows patients to deal with situation non-emotionally, whereas sensory info MAPS A NON-THREATENING INTERPRETATION onto expectations

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How does perception of control affect stress?

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Decreases it

6
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Define and give an example of problem-focused coping

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= efforts at changing environment/ actions/ attitudes: eg. seeking health info, learning procedures etc

7
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Define and give an example of emotion-focused learning

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= efforts designed to manage emotional stress to maintain one’s own morale: eg. meditation/ praying

8
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Recall the 3 strategies for helping children cope with treatment

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  1. Tell - with simple language
  2. Show - demonstrate on an inanimate object
  3. Do - begin only when the child understands - use prompt distrations
9
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Name the 2 studies you have to recall for “coping with treatment”

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Auerbach - Amount of Information and Distress

Langer and Rodin - Nursing Home Study

10
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Describe the Auerbach study

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Dental extraction
General vs specific info re procedure
Distress correlated to how much patients desired information and how much they were given

11
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Describe the Langer and Rodin study

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Study on perceived control of health
2 floors in home
1 floor given more choice than other - engaged more in activities, and had better well-being and 18mo mortality rate