Deck 13: Additional Coping Skills

Question 1

Which coping technique is known as the "buffer theory?"

A) Hobbies
B) Journaling
C) Poetry Therapy
D) Social orchestration
E) Social support groups

Answer 1

E

Question 2

What does research show about people who keep a regular journal?

A) Their frustrations are toxic.
B) They have healthier immune systems
C) Most of their thoughts are positive.
D) All of these

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In 1989, the results of a landmark study showed that support groups do which of the following for cancer patients?

A) Promote longevity
B) Provide a platform.
C) Keep their morale up
D) All of these
E) None of these

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is a coping technique to be essential for health and well-being?

A) Social engineering
B) Connectedness
C) Soul searching
D) Path of least resistance

Question 5

A landmark study by David Spiegel involving which of the following groups revealed the power of social support?

A) Combat soldiers
B) Olympic athletes
C) Cancer patients
D) Victims of September 11th

Question 6

Social orchestration often is called:

A) fragmented thinking.
B) the path of least resistance.
C) an avoidance technique.
D) an ineffective coping skill.

Question 7

Hobbies can provide what for you?

A) Keen insights
B) Balance to the mind
C) An unstressful load
D) All of these

Question 8

Social orchestration is really a coping mechanism to:

A) change one's attitude toward social interaction.
B) change one's social interaction by thinking stressors through.
C) learn to avoid stressful situations in one's environment.
D) reorganize daily behaviors to decrease the frequency of stressful encounters.

Question 9

Dreams are thought to be an effective coping technique because:

A) REM time is the most relaxing segment of sleep.
B) they offer insight into helping solve personal issues.
C) dream incubation can uncover repressed emotions.
D) they conceal information that is damaging to the ego.

Question 10

Nonlinear cognitive functions are associated with this aspect?

A) The conscious mind
B) Factual information
C) The right hemisphere of the brain
D) The left hemisphere of the brain

Question 11

What does it suggest when you have recurring dreams?

A) Your unconscious mind is multilingual.
B) You had a restless night's sleep.
C) There is some problem that needs to be resolved.
D) Your unconscious mind is multilingual and You had a restless night's sleep.

Question 12

Holding resentment is a tactic for protection, but then it turns into a type of what?

A) Revenge
B) Absolution
C) Forgiveness
D) Serenity

Question 13

According to Sophy Burnham, author of A Book of Angels, for prayer to be most effective it must have which of the following component(s)?

A) Be constructed in the present tense
B) Repeated in tongues
C) Be constructed in the positive
D) Be constructed in faith and hope
E) Be constructed in the present tense and Be constructed in the positive

Question 14

Assuming there is a correct way to pray, author Sophy Burnham makes which of the following suggestions?

A) Pray early in the morning.
B) Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
C) Pray late in the afternoon.
D) Pray to include some aspect of forgiveness.
E) Pray in the present tense, with a positive frame of mind.

Question 15

What is the antidote for anger?

A) Forgiveness
B) Avoidance
C) Resentment
D) Victimization

Question 16

Where does forgiveness start?

A) Within
B) With the person you are angry at
C) With unlocking unresolved anger
D) Within and With the person you are angry at

Question 17

Which of the following is not an aspect to consider while praying?

A) Attitude of gratitude
B) Focus concentration
C) Positive and negative thoughts
D) Emotional vibration

Question 18

Poetry therapy can make use of this style of poems for the best effect:

A) Haiku
B) Rap
C) Dr. Seuss rhymes
D) All of these

Question 19

In the age of technology, our society has become less and less fragmented.

Question 20

Dream incubation is a process where a person tries to finish a recurring dream.

Question 21

Analyzing your dreams is a process whereby the code of the dream symbol is broken.

Question 22

As a coping technique, the premise of forgiveness is unconditional love without feelings of victimization.

Question 23

Forgiveness does not mean the same thing as restitution.

Question 24

Poetry therapy can best be explained in this expression, which then translates into an effective coping strategy for stress management: Poems make order out of chaos

Question 25

Please define the following terms or concepts in no more than two sentences and give an example to support each definition.
A. Buffer theory
B. Dream therapy
C. Faith
D. Forgiveness
E. Hobbies

Question 26

Explain a situation in your life where hobbies have provided a balance in your life. How did those hobbies help provide that balance?