Coping With Stress: Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Reduction

Stress is ubiquitous and on the rise. How we learn to manage it can have profound effects on our health and well being. This series explains how our bodies experience stress and demonstrates effective strategies to help you thrive in a fast-paced world. On this edition, Jason Satterfield, Director of Behavioral Medicine at UCSF, explores adjustment to chronic medical and stress-induced illnesses, HIV, and stress-management. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [3/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 13723]

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Education

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• stress
• mental
• health
• integrative
• medicine

[bugseyfruitcakes]

I appreciate all the stuff that can be learned here. I thank this network for putting on something that is pragmatic and yet,scientific. This is great! More please.. do you have any relaxing imagery stuff?

[pkingo1]

Coping by distraction seems like a bad strategy.. It's fleeing from the stress-factor rather than dealing with it and relating to it in a more healthy way.. a better strategy is not to fight it or flee from it, but rather realise it is just an emotion that is not harmful in itself.. it's your response, or unhealthy way of relating to it that is harmfull.

[qwexas]

@2011rhythmdivine Stress isn't always bad. It can motivate us. When there is a problem, stress motivates us to solve it. Stress is what lets us know we have work to do. It warns us about danger too. I don't want stress eradicated. Sometimes stress is disproportionate, inefficient, or inconvenient, and needs to be managed, but other times it is important.

[coquiita]

really really good and useful

[2011rhythmdivine]

Stress is really evil. It's difficult to eradicate. I think you only have to think happy so that you defeat it. Thanks for the upload. Quite informative.

[roong1966]

What is The diffirent and the same between  CBSM and CBT .

[roong1966]

Thank you verymuch. I wanted this program becourse it is very important on my poppulation for my research.. It is the cognitive behavior stress managment ?? but I wanted another programe relaxation too.

[liner986]

this category of science is boring yet fascinating somehow

[coonish28]

When I get nervous I stick my hands under my armpits and smell em like this *SNIFFS* XD I know, I know, completely innapropriate but you have to have some kind of sense of humor in life.

[drrajumama]

Brain neurology now confirms that the pathway from the cognitive brain center to the center for emotions is like an old 2-laner, whereas the pathway from this primitive emotion center to the body's nervous system is like a 15-lane superhighway. What that means is that cognitive self-counselling can get overwhelmed by the reactions of the emotional center. If born with an overactive emotional center, only alterations to the brain chemistry can help combat the excesses of the emotion center.