Health Care and Stress Management BURNOUT

- is a state of exhaustion and over fatigue.

“A sound mind rests in a healthy body.” - is a sort of accumulated stress.

Stress: Notes:
Individual loses interest in what they do
Dr. Hans Selye - Is a non-specific response of the
body to any demands made upon it Stress Management
- The ability to handle or minimize the
Richard Lazarus - A situation that someone physical and emotional effects of
regards as threatening and is possibly exceeding such anxiety
one’s resources.
Notes:
Notes: - It is a truism that living is not a stress free life.
Refers to events that are perceived as challenging, Truism - cliche
damaging or threatening to one’s Physical or
Psychological well-being How we respond to Stress:

1. Physical Responses
> Rapid Pulse
> Increase perspiration
> Pounding heart
> Tightened stomach
> Tense arm, leg muscle
> Shortness of breath
Stressors - Stress Response > Clenched jaw, gritted teeth
> Inability to sit still
2 Types / Kinds of Stress > Racing thoughts
> Compelling emotions
1. Eustress - occurs when people experience
positive events but requires them to adjust. Notes:
Physical refers to body itself
2. Distress - occurs when people experience Physiological refers to body’s function
negative events and make a great deal of
demands on them. 2. Psychological Responses
> Inability to concentrate
Notes: > Difficulty making simple decisions
STRESSOR – the events > Loss of self-confidence
STRESS RESPONSE – the way people responds > Irritability or frequent anger
to them. > Insatiable cravings
EUSTRESS – Positive stress > Worry or anxiety
- Pushes you to achieve more > Irrational fear or outright panic
- A driving force for many
achievements Notes:
**** New job, Marriage, new baby, Varies from person to person and from time to time
athletic event Stress is frequently accompanied by EMOTIONS
DISTRESS – Neagtive stress such as depression, rage, fear.
- depletes our energy stores and cause Unexpressed Emotion, whether positive or
damage negative frequently causes stress.
***** Death, overwork, sickness, fight,
break-up 3. Behavioral Responses
> Smoking
 > Increased use of medication
> Nervous tics or mannerisms
> Absent-mindedness
> Accident-proneness
> Hair pulling, nail biting, foot tapping
> Increased or decreased in eating
> Increased or decreased in sleeping
> Increased use of alcohol or other
recreational drugs
> Reckless driving
> Uncalled for aggressiveness
Mental Hygiene
- Is the science of mental health which gives
emphasis on the proper care of the mind.
Mental Health
- It is keeping the whole personality when one
faces the reality in both losing and
victorious situations and thus function
effectively in a dynamic society.
Notes:
Directed towards prevention of serious
maladjustment
There is no formula to ensure complete protection
against chronic anxiety and tensions arising from
conflicts and frustrations.
Maintain a good Mental Health
- Is the science of mental health which gives
emphasis on the proper care of the mind
1. Have a good philosophy of life which would
guide you in having a meaningful and
happier life.
2. Develop a great sense of humor.
3. Be true to yourself.
Defense Mechanism
- Unconscious strategies that people
use in order to cope with the pain
and deal with anxiety, frustrations,
conflicts or stress.
1. Displacement – directing energy toward another
object or person when the original object or person
is inaccessible.
2. Compensation – person makes up for or covers
up his or her weak areas by being superior in other
areas.
3. Denial – when a person refuses to accept a
painful reality or truth aspects of one’s life.
4. Identification – imitating the characteristics of a
person he/she admires to deal with his/her
own insecurities.
5. Intellectualization – avoiding negative emotions
by focusing on the
intellectual aspects of one’s life.
6. Projection – attributing one’s own weaknesses or
shortcomings to someone else.
7. Rationalization – making up plausible
explanations or excuses to cover up negative
feelings such as guilt.
8. Reaction Formation – acting opposite to what
the person truly feels
9. Regression – a person reverts to an earlier
psychosexual stage and begins to behave like a
child.
- going back to an earlier phase of
development when there
were fewer demands
10. Repression – pushing unacceptable impulses or
urges into the unconscious.
*** Hurting oneself / Committing Suicide ***
Notes:
Displacement – destroying things or other person
Compensation –attempt by the person to say
“Don’t see the ways in which I am inferior but se
me in my accomplishments”
being good in music when you cannot
overcome your academics
Denial – you do not believe he reality
Identification – copying others way of dressing up,
actions and even speech / enhance self worth &
protect one from a sense of being a failure
Intellectualization – Not a doctor but knows a lot member
about the medical terms / putting yourself in a Pregnancy 40 Change in schools 20
particular position. Sex 39 Change in recreation 19
difficulties
Projection – negative characteristics are possessed Gain of new 39 Change in social 18
by others not me / they judge people so others will family activities
not notice his/her weakness member
Change in 38 Taking out a small 17
RATIONALIZATION helps justify specific financial mortgage on your
behaviour (when they did not get the position they status home
have applied for, they convince themselves that they
really did not want the position anyway) EVENT LC LIFE CHANGE LC
U UNITS U
Reaction Formation – you are hurt but still says PTS PTS
you are ok / mask cruelty with excessive kindness Death of a dose 37 Change in sleeping 16
friend habits
Regression - clinging to immature or inappropriate Change to a 36 Change in number of 15
behaviour (Child frightened in school-weeping, different kind family get-togethers
dependence, thumbsucking) of work
Increase or 35 Change in eating 15
REPRESSION assumed that most of the painful decrease in habits
events of the first 5-6 years of life are buried yet arguments with
these events do influence later behaviour spouse
Taking out a 31 Vacation 13
big mortgage
HOLMES – RAHE Stress Evaluation on a home
Foreclosure of 30 Minor violations of 11
EVENT LCU EVENT LC mortgage or law
PTS U loan
PTS
Death of 100 Change in work 30
spouse responsibilities LCU Points
Marital 65 Son or daughter 29
Seperation leaving home 150-199 = slight probability of incurring some form
Death of Dose 63 Trouble with in-laws 29 of illness within the following year
family 200-299 = Moderate risks
member 300-above = very likely to suffer serious physical or
Personal 53 Outstanding 28 emotional illness (depending on their capacity to
injury or personal manage stress and how much control
illness achievement they had over its sources.)
Marriage 50 Spouse beginning or 29
stopping work
Loss of job 47 Revision or personal 24
habits
Marital 45 Trouble with 23
Reconciliation business superior
Retirement 45 change in work 20
hours or conditions
Change in 44 Change in residence 20
health of a
family