Exam 15: Stress, Coping, and Health

Your grandparents are experiencing joint pain triggered by an inflammatory condition. It would be in their best interest to take an anti-inflammatory drugs such as cortisone.

A worker experiences everyday stressors on their way to work (e.g., traffic) and at work (e.g., a broken copying machine). These stressors would be categorized as ________.

Let's say that you are a therapist and have a patient who is young, female, and from an Asian country. What kind of coping strategy would you expect her to be using?

All of the following factors have been shown to be predictive of dropout from exercise programs EXCEPT

Someone who attempts to directly deal with and change the demands of stress-inducing situations is involved in the process of ____________.

Which of the following substance abuse intervention techniques is most likely to achieve the majority of its positive effects by creating discrepancies between the current state of affairs and the individual's ideal self-image, desired behaviours, and desired outcomes?

The assumption that people frequently make many attempts to change a problematic behaviour before they are successful is most relevant to

According to recent statistics, which of the following is LEAST likely to be a modern cause of death?

Jessica has a drug problem and has been seeking substance abuse counselling. She has remained drug free for several months, but last week she ran into some friends with whom she used to frequently get high and she ended up using some drugs with them. Afterwards, she felt terrible about breaking her commitment to remain drug free and concluded that she must not have the self-discipline and willpower needed to quit. Within a week, she had fully resumed her harmful drug behaviour. This example best demonstrates the phenomenon called

The World Health Organization reported in 2002 that worldwide, 1 in every 1,000 adults aged 15-49 is affected with the AIDS virus.

Which of the following is one of the main assumptions of the stages of the transtheoretical model?

J.T. is facing a lot of stress and has decided to use social support as a coping strategy. Most likely, J.T. is

Studies of soldiers who had been subjected to the horrors of war resulted in the creation of a psychological disorder called ____________________.

Which of the following is one of the main assumptions of the transtheoretical model?

Harm reduction approaches to substance abuse treatment are based on the assumption that people must completely refrain from engaging in a problematic behaviour if they are to recover.

Sasha drives whenever she must travel, because she's terrified a plane will crash. Statistics show that there are 40,000 deaths per year in automobile accidents and only about 200 deaths in air transport, but news programs tend to sensationalize plane crashes and minimize car wrecks. Sadly, many of those automobile accidents could be prevented, since _____________ is implicated in half of all automobile fatalities.

Socialization patterns within a culture tend to dictate coping strategy preferences evidenced in that

How serious are the consequences of heavy drinking among college students?

The "three Cs" that constitute a stress-protective factor called hardiness are ________.

Which of the following is NOT related to an increased probability of developing of post-traumatic stress disorder?