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Stress Management: in tough times.

Stress Management: in tough times. Linda Hancock FNP, PhD VCU Student Health Services & The Wellness Resource Center lhancock@vcu.edu. STRESS Continuum. Good stress distress impairment. STRESS. Docs Docs. Paradox.

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Stress Management: in tough times.

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  1. StressManagement:in tough times. Linda Hancock FNP, PhD VCU Student Health Services & The Wellness Resource Center lhancock@vcu.edu

  2. STRESS Continuum Good stressdistress impairment STRESS

  3. DocsDocs Paradox

  4. The “Paradox of Medicine”:Balancing between the fact that people are mostly the same & yet uniquely different. The “Bell Curve” Individuals are all “Genetic Snowflakes”

  5. What genetic snowflake symptoms do you have under stress?

  6. What do you predict might cause you stress this year?

  7. 2 types ofStressors & Strategies/Service HR probably has programs Time management, conflict resolution,etc, • Things you can change • Things you can NOT change Problem Focused Strategies Emotion Focused Strategies Strategies like those presented in this lecture!

  8. LEARN Stress ManagementEmotion Focused Strategies • L • E • A • R • N • S

  9. LEARN Stress Management • Laugh • E • A • R • N • S

  10. Cultures, Humor & Medicine • Greeks – home of the comediane • Native Americans… Clown Doctors • Voltaire: • “The Art of Medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” • Medicine today?

  11. Think of humor as atool for your LIFE SKILLS tool box!!! • Humor is a skill you can learn… just like physical exam and history taking and writing prescriptions

  12. There is noMindbody disconnect MINDBODY MIND BODY

  13. Smile Study • Waitresses • Nurses • 7-11 Clerks • VCU employees?

  14. What is humor? • An attitude toward life. • Taking your work seriously… but yourself lightly. • Humor is healthy. • Humor connects us to others! • It makes us MORE effective!

  15. Set a mental Channelfor humor! • Look for humor each day. • At conferences… write down the serious stuff… but write down the jokes and funny stuff too! • People laugh just as much at borrowed humor as they will your own. • Start a humor file… and go through it often. • Find humor on the INTERNET! • For life skills education, decide on your main points FIRST then think about how humor can be added to make it memorable.

  16. LEARN Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • A • R • N • S

  17. Fighting the invisible tigers. EXERCISE!

  18. Exercise is the all purposeweigh stabilizerde-stressorsleep aid&study focus aid

  19. LEARN Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • Attitude • R • N • S

  20. It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s your ATTITUDE toward what happens that matters.

  21. Re-framing is a learnable skill!

  22. Example: What if you fail a test? A.D.G.O Another Darn Growth Opportunity

  23. “Success is the ability to move from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”-Winston Churchill

  24. Chinese ProverbGood event, bad event… who knows?

  25. Get some perspective

  26. LEARN Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • Attitude • Relax/Rest in H.P. • N • S

  27. Relax in your higher power…. Whether you know it or not, the universe is unfolding as it should.

  28. RELAX & Remember! You are a worthwhile person and good people love you. Don’t sweat the small stuff… and hey, most if it is small stuff.

  29. What relaxes you the most? Recent studies on mindfulness and academic grades

  30. Mindfulness • Be present to the present • Let go of all the baggage from the past. • Don’t take on all the worries of the future. • Just breath and be in the peace of the moment.

  31. LEARN Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • Attitude • Relax/Rest in H.P. • Nutrition • S

  32. If all you eat is junk food…

  33. Get some fruit, veggies and protein

  34. LEARNS: Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • Attitude • Relax/Rest in H.P. • Nutrition • S ???

  35. LEARNS: Stress Management • Laugh • Exercise • Attitude • Relax/Rest in H.P. • Nutrition • Sleep/Sex/Substances

  36. Sleep is not optional!

  37. The jar

  38. UCLA Study 2005 Taylor et al, Journal of Psych Science • 80 UCLA undergrads randomly assigned to 2 groups 1. Intervention group taught “value affirmation” and reflected on values they found important to them • Could be spiritual, secular, political social, 2. Control group answered questions about values they said were unimportant to them GIVEN A STRESSFUL TASK TO COMPLETE… blood tested immediately after and 45 minutes later • Those who reflected on values they considered meaningful had significantly lower cortisol levels both immediately after a stressful event and 45 minutes later

  39. Confused? My point is…Emotion focused stress management is a skill you can learn!

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