DEALING WITH STRESS

AND ANXIETY
4 PICS

1 WORD
SESRTS
GYRATESR
EMHCASINM
 STRESS ANXIETY
• A feeling of • A feeling of
emotional or fear, dread,
physical tension. and
uneasiness.
• A short term
feeling. • A long term
feeling.
 Coping Strategies for Stress and Anxiety
Get enough sleep Having Good nutrition

Have Fun
Practice Meditation Talk to someone
STRESSORS
Any event, force, or
condition that results
in physical or
emotional stress.
Stressors may be
internal or external
forces that require
adjustment or coping
strategies on the part
of the affected
individual.
 2 Types of Stressors
Eustress

• A positive form of stress having a

beneficial effect on health, motivation,
performance, and emotional well-being

Distress

• A negative stress response, often

involving negative affect and physiological
reactivity
EUSTRESS DISTRESS
Lazarus and Folkman
Transactional Stress Model

Lazarus & Folkman suggested that

stress involves an interaction
between the individual and the
environment. This involves
appraisals of both the stressor and
the individual’s ability to cope with
it.
Freud’s Defense
Mechanisms

Sigmund Freud (1894, 1896) noted

a number of ego defenses which he
refers to throughout his written
works. His daughter Anna Freud
(1936) developed these ideas and
elaborated on them, adding ten of
her own.
Freud’s Defense
Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms
- Psychological strategies that are
unconsciously used to protect a
person from anxiety arising from
unacceptable thoughts or feelings.
According to Freudian theory,
defense mechanisms involve a
distortion of reality in some way so
that we are better able to cope
with a situation.
 Denial
A Defense Mechanism

1 which involves a refusal

to accept reality, thus
blocking external events
from awareness.
 Denial

1
 REPRESSION
An unconscious Defense

2 Mechanism employed by
the ego to keep
disturbing or threatening
thoughts from becoming
conscious.
 REPRESSION

2
 Projection
A Defense Mechanism

3 which an individual
attributes unwanted
thoughts, feelings and
motives onto another
person.
 Projection

3
 DISPLACEMENT
A Defense Mechanism which is

4 redirecting an impulse usually

aggression onto a powerless
substitute target. The target can
be a person or an object that can
serve as a symbolic substitute.
 DISPLACEMENT

4
 REGRESSION
A Defense Mechanism

5 which whereby the the

ego reverts to an earlier
stage of development
usually in response to
stressful situations.
 REGRESSION

5
 SUBLIMATION
Sublimation is similar to

6
displacement, but takes place
when we manage to displace our
unacceptable emotions into
behaviors which are constructive
and socially acceptable, rather
than destructive activities.
 SUBLIMATION

6
 RATIONALIZATION
A Defense Mechanism

7 involving a cognitive
distortion of "the facts"
to make an event or an
impulse less threatening.
 RATIONALIZATION

7
 REACTION
FORMATION
A Defense Mechanism which

8 a person goes beyond denial

and behaves in the opposite
way to which he or she
thinks or feels.
 REACTION
FORMATION

8
 INTROJECTION
A Defense Mechanism which

9 involves taking into your own

personality characteristics of
someone else, because doing so
solves some emotional
difficulty.
 INTROJECTION

9
IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AGGRESSOR
A Defense Mechanism which

10 involves the victim adopting

the behavior of a person
who is more powerful and
hostile towards them.
IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AGGRESSOR

10
Sources
• https://www.simplypsychology.org/defense-mechanisms.html
• ttps://youtu.be/0IHkbx_4C7E
• https://www.healthline.com/health/eustress
• https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/de
f/distress
•