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The Lazarus Model: Stress and Coping, 2008.
The author of this essay uses personal experience to evaluate the Lazarus model of stress and coping.
1,227 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This essay states that the Lazarus' model is a very concise theory that explains how individuals try to make sense of a stressful situation from the initial impact of the event forward. It details the primary and secondary appraisals implemented to assess the event and promotes the idea that coping resources held by the individual affected are utilized to assist in overcoming the experience. Through personal experience, the author shows that overall, the Lazarus Model provided a clear understanding of the experience and the coping mechanisms used, either consciously or unconsciously to cope with trauma.
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Description of the Incident
Description of My Emotional Experience
How Lazurus' Model Helps Make Sense of This Experience
The Aspects of My Experience Lazarus' Model Fails to Explain
How Lazarus' Model Could be Modified to Fit My Experience
Conclusion
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"When assessing my coping resources via the secondary appraisal phase in Lazarus' model, I discovered my coping mechanisms were quite healthy. I was able to take control of the situation and the stressors involved by realizing that future harm of this nature could be avoided by ending the toxic relationship I was in. Further, I realized the challenges faced by experiencing such a trauma could be turned into positive benefits, as from this negative transaction, I received all the strength and knowledge I could glean from this experience."
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Bereavement Stress and Coping - New Dimensions., 2008.
An overview of how bereaved patients are assessed and a research project to examine the subject further.
1,861 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines the assessment of people suffering from bereavement and stress and the reality of persons who cannot 'cope'. After a review of the literature surrounding this subject, the author describes a research project to be carried out with informal written testimony from a random sample of 40 volunteer informants.
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Abstract
Introduction
Review of Literature
Proposed Research Project
Interpreting Results
Last Remarks
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"Bereavement Stress and Coping are familiar terms in English-speaking
countries as need modification to reveal the severity of symptoms and
the reality of persons who cannot 'cope'. Stage theories distort, as can
the under-estimation of anxiety, depression or more alarming symptoms
bereaved persons experience well beyond the acute or first year aftermath of loss. One needs awareness of postmodern societies a long average lifespan but also youth, midlife and serial bereavement as common phenomena. Inductive research, as in this paper's proposed project, should harvest the testimony of persons to survive bereavement, as other research must help human services professionals to become oriented to what bereavement stress can really entail, the nature of loss in the early 21st century.
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Adjustment, Stress and Coping, 2006.
A paper on the human trait of procrastination and effective and creative ways of managing it.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses and examines the human trait of procrastination and how it can become a source of stress for students. The paper discusses different ways in which psychologists refer to procrastination and looks at two ways of examining related and independent stressors in perfectionism,
achievement anxiety, and known time management problems.
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"This paper refers to procrastination as a sign of poor adjustment and as a source of student stress. In many students, this is a problem that seems to grow worse, making new kinds of stress, unless stopped. Those who study Psychology refer to 'adult adjustment disorder' as often having a pattern of procrastination. (Casey: 2001) This pattern is discussed in a serious way, indeed. The person who procrastinates must deal with the stress of what has been put off, and towards new stress. The experience will stay in mind as something negative, as is..."
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There is Help After All: An Overview of Work Stress and Ways to Cope, 2002.
This paper discusses how to cope with work stress and how to notice the signs of stress.
3,606 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 100.95
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In today's fast paced world most people have to work and along with that factor most people are subjected to work stress. There are many causes related to stress such as job insecurity, working long hours, and even conflict between co-workers. This paper covers how understanding and recognizing stress can basically nip the source in the bud. It also covers the physical and emotions signs to look for and offers some stress management techniques such as journaling, meditation, excercising and aromatherapy.
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"Almost everyone has to work, and most of us don?t realize what a powerful and influential role work plays in our lives. As far back as the 1960?s, working for a living has taken up a huge amount of people?s lives. It?s true, employment can be exciting and challenging for many, but in turn, it can cause a person an enormous amount of stress. My intent in this paper is to focus on how work stress can effect our well-being, and how we can modulate and cope with that stress. Newspaper headlines worldwide have heralded an unprecedented concern about the detrimental effects of work stress. Authors Locke & Taylor attribute the source of stress to work places that are unstable, impersonal, and hostile. In line with this, Locke & Taylor have documented that researchers have been examining the psychosocial and physical demands of the work environment that trigger stress. Research has identified many organizational factors contributing to increased stress levels: job insecurity, shift work, long work hours, physical hazard exposures, and interpersonal conflicts with coworkers or supervisors. (Locke & Taylor, 1990)."
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Coping Strategies for Stress, 2002.
Presents an exploration of stress and coping strategies for stress.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines what stress is, both positive and negative, looks at the history of how society has typically dealt with stress, and then discusses several of the commonly recommended coping strategies that are used in the mental health field.
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"For many years, the mental health profession has studied stress and its impact on people. After watching how stress occurs, who it affects and what it means, experts have agreed that stress is an unavoidable fact of life. Following this decision, the experts then moved to define types of stress. Since it cannot be avoided, it became important to identify whether it is negative or positive and then figure out how to handle it. Today, the focus is no longer on denying its existence, but instead on developing coping strategies to lessen the negative impact it might otherwise have on one?s life."
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Coping with Stress, 2002.
A study on recognizing stress and how to cope with it.
947 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses the issues involved with stress management. The paper outlines symptoms of stress and provides suggestions on how to avoid or deal with stressful situations. The paper describes different methods people employ for coping with stress. Various types of stress are illustrated.
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"Stress occurs whenever an individual is faced with a tense or threatening situation that requires or demands adjustment and behavioural change. When stress occurs, it is vital that an individual learns how to adjust, failing which there is the very real risk of prolonged stress ultimately leading to psychological and physical disorders. Adjustment refers to the process of coping with stress by balancing our needs and desires against the demands of the situation and making decisions based on realistic options that are available (Understanding Psychology, Chapter 11)."
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Coping with Job Stress, 2008.
A descriptive account of the problems of stress and how it is affected in a work situation.
1,445 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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The paper defines the problem of stress and looks at how it is affected in the workplace. The paper then relates that, in spite of the difficulty researchers encounter in measuring stress and tracking the healthcare costs of stress, its negative impact on the work environment has long been recognized in business. The paper also relates that, despite the limitations of research about stress, the research has provided some insight as to what employment conditions create the most negative stress, and what types of stress employers should strive to reduce to optimize productivity.
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"However, measuring stress can itself be a source of stress for researchers. A problem with measuring stress is "that it cannot always be seen," especially during its early stages when "most employees will suffer in silence. [Although] this does not mean that employers can or should do nothing," it may mean that a lack of response on the part of employers is not necessarily due to callousness fashion ("Stress in the workplace," 2007, Clarion, Ltd). It can be difficult for researchers to calculate the amount of stress workers experience at any one point in time, or over the course of a typical work day or year. Because the potential costs of work-related stress to an employer as well as the employee are so great, including the cost of absences, disturbances in production, creativity and competitiveness, reduced effectiveness of employees suffering from work-related stress, punitive legal fines if workers injure themselves on the job, and awards of damages from the courts arising from personal injury claims, employers often wish to reduce workplace stress and address its causes, but are not always able to do so nor measure its impact in a clear fashion ("Stress In The Workplace," 2007, Clarion, Ltd). "The price tag for indirect and direct costs associated with both undiagnosed and treated depression in North America is $60 billion, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto."
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Coping with Infidelity and Breakups, 2008.
This paper provides a study of strategies to reduce stress and anxiety in order to cope with infidelity and breakups.
7,064 words (approx. 28.3 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 158.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses that the issue of stress and anxiety that is linked to relationship betrayal and breakdown poses a particular challenge to contemporary psychological and relationship counseling. The paper presents an overview of the problem of infidelity and relationship breakdown mainly in the context of modern developed countries like the Unites States - while reference is also made to the permutations of the problem in other countries in the world. The central focus of this paper, however, is on the way that stress and anxiety can be dealt with in the two gender groups. This refers to the differences and similarities in the way that stress and anxiety is experienced by men and women; and the way that they cope with the trauma of divorce and infidelity. The last section of the paper deals with counseling strategies and methods of dealing with this issue, as well as some theoretical stances and trajectories that has been found to be useful in this regard.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Extent of the Problem
Psychological and other Consequences
Differences in Gender in Relation to Stress and Anxiety
Coping Strategies
General Coping Strategies and Advice
Coping Strategies for Women
Self-Esteem
Coping Strategies of Men
Counseling and Stress Reduction
Conclusion
Reference List
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" The above view underlines a cardinal aspect of the way that divorce in particular, as well as other forms of relationship breakdown, negatively influences a wide circle of people. The effect that relationship breakdown has on the family and on children is a significant factor in determining the extent of the problem, in that these aspects can add to and increase stress and anxiety. In other words, in the assessment of the extent and range of the effects of marital breakdown, the other individuals who are affected beside the man and woman, tend to contribute to the overall situation and to the stress and anxiety factors. For example, children may become disruptive as result of the stress of the relationship conflict, which in turn leads to an increase in the problematics of the situation."
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Coping with Autism, 2004.
A review of coping strategies for parents of autistic children.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper is a literature review on coping strategies for parents and caregivers of autistic children. The paper studies the issue from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The paper reviews the perspectives of coping theorists, and details their theoretical framework. The paper concludes with a discussion of other coping strategies.
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"In this chapter, coping strategies will be explored from theoretical and empirical perspectives. As defined by Lazarus and Folkman, coping strategies are defined as methods employed by people to deal with situations that require..."
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Coping Mechanisms to Survive, 2004.
An analysis of the theme of coping mechanisms in Tim O' Brien's, "The Things They Carried".
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper examines how, during the Vietnam War, soldiers were not exposed to the traditional coping mechanisms of our American society, as illustrated in Tim O?Brien?s "The Things They Carried". It looks at how these men were forced to discover and invent new ways to deal with the pressures of war, using only the resources they had in the Vietnamese jungle. It was not possible for any soldier to carry many items or burdens with them, but if something was a necessity, a way was found to carry it, and coping mechanisms were a necessity to survive the war.
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"The conditions of war can be enough to drive a person to the edge of insanity, causing him or her to need something personal to bring them back to reality. They were in the war twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and the securities that each soldier had were the only things that kept them sane. Lt. Jimmy Cross repeatedly had thoughts and visions of Martha, left at home. He would read the letters she sent him and wonder about her as a tactic to keep him connected with the real world and the life he had left."
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Qualitative Grounded Theory and Coping Strategies, 2005.
Examines coping strategies used by relatives with those suffering from OCD.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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In 'Coping Strategies Used by the Relatives of People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder', Stengler, Wenzke, Trosbach, Dietrich, and Angermeyer (2004) collectively conducted a qualitative study of the coping mechanisms employed by the family members of individuals who suffer from OCD. This essay attempts to understand as fully as possible the burden that is placed on those individuals in caring for OCD victims both in the sense of responsibility but also psychosocial ramifications.
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Ways of Coping with Pain, 2008.
This paper looks at ways of coping with pain as raised in Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'.
1,722 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the book 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' is the New York odyssey of the nine-year old genius Oskar Schell who begins a detective-like quest in his attempt to make sense of the death of his father, which occurred at World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The writer points out that the main theme of the book is thus the effort to cope with the losses that came after the greatest terrorist attack in human history. The writer maintains that it is not accidental that Foer chooses a nine-year old child as the main hero and narrator of this story. Rather, Foer intentionally avoids social realism and direct psychological interpretation, seeking to coat the bitter and unthinkably sad events in the imaginative and playful discourse of a child. The writer also notes that Foer's novel revolves around the issues of coping with pain. The writer concludes that the child character who is the hero of the book makes the novel seem a fairytale more than a realist story, but his imaginative way of looking at things is in fact the main source of emotion in the text.
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"Thus, Oskar's obsession with inventing an alternative universe becomes coherent in the book's narrative structure. The child attempts to create an imaginary world where people would be safer, where nothing is impossible, and where everything has a reason. It is his way of compensating for the loss he cannot fully grip. The novel even starts up abruptly with one of Oskar's invention: a teakettle that would be able to sing, to recite Shakespeare or to imitate his father's voice. Even from these first lines thus, the boy's struggle to atone for his loss through imaginative 'tricks', is evident. Throughout the novel, there follow many other similar inventions, all having the same function. A good number of them are symbolically connected with the idea of falling or with the force of gravity. This is an obvious hint to the dreadful images of people falling off the windows of the great towers, as were seen by eye-witnesses of the attack on September 11."
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Coping with Cancer, 2002.
An examination of coping mechanisms which cancer victims and their families may use.
1,670 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper addresses the various coping techniques that individuals can employ when dealing with cancer themselves or dealing with a loved one who has the disease. Moreover, this paper also addresses how a diagnosis of cancer can dramatically change not only the life of the person with cancer but the lives of those who love and care about him or her as well.
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"According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Half of all men and one-third of all women in the U.S. will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. The numbers are dismal; according to most statistical data American?s possess almost a fifty percent chance of developing cancer. With these alarming statistics it is unfortunate and inevitable that almost everyone will have to in some way or another learn how face and cope with the depressing hardships and obstacles of cancer. Whether an individual is diagnosed personally with cancer or a friend or family member is, it seems as though all of us at some point in time may have to learn coping mechanisms for this illness."
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"Coping with Life Challenges", 2005.
A book critique of the popular self-help book "Coping with Life Challenges" by Chris Kleinke.
1,147 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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A self-help book is one that presents practical ideas which an individual, family, group, organization, or community may use to improve its well being in one or more of the following realms: emotional, intellectual, interpersonal/social, physical and political. This paper examines how the book "Coping with Life Challenges", meets these criteria and the author explains how the book has helped him personally.
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"Chapters six through eight address loneliness, anxiety, and anger. These feelings are again, very common, however may not be a daily occurrence. Each chapter explains the emotion in depth, includes personal quizzes, and address multiple ways to deal with such situations. These chapters were not as relevant to me as a reader because I am not a stressed out, angry, lonely person. Granted, I cannot generalize these feelings into one irritable being, but overall - I experience little stress and anger and I am generally happily surrounded with close friends. I did find it helpful to read these chapters because it allowed me to better associate with others. "
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Coping with the Pressures of Life, 2002.
An analysis of two literary works illustrating different methods of coping with daily pressures.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the economic, social and moral pressures on the Younger family in "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry and on Miss Emily Griersen in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. It discusses how the characters in each work cope with these pressures.
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"Faulkner describes Miss Emily as a town tradition and obligation. No one knew exactly why, but the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, had excused her taxes dating from the death of her father in 1894, therefore for decades she never received a tax notice. When the new generation took over the city duties and found no written record of this arrangement, they tried their best to serve her notice, but she simply waved them off (Faulkner 1995). She was a Griersen and socially above any one in the town. She was a spinster by the time her father died, although she did in her middle years have a suitor of sorts for a time. Everyone thought they had married. He was seen entering the house, although he was never seen again (Faulkner 1995). Miss Emily taught china painting classes for several years to support herself. When pupils stopped coming, she was seldom, if ever seen outside her house again."
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