Stress, Health, and Wellness

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Stress, Health, and Wellness

• COL 103
• Chapter 12
• Professor Jackie Kroening
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Becoming Comfortable in a World of Diversity

• Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
• Race Traditionally, biologically determined
  physical characteristics that set one group apart
  from another
• Asian Americans, Blacks, Hispanic, Whites, Native
  American
• Ethnicity Shared national origins or cultural
  patterns
• Puerto Ricans, Irish, Italian American, American
  Indian
• Culture The learned behaviors, beliefs, and
  attitudes that are characteristic of an
  individual society or population and the products
  that people create

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Building Cultural Competence
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Prepare Accepting Diversity as a Part of Your
Life

• Culture Competence Knowledge of others
  customs, perspectives, background, and history
• We tend to form relationships with others who are
  similar to us
• Seeking out other people we
• Learn a great deal about life
• New ways of thinking about family, relationships,
  and the value of education.
• Grow as humans
• Are challenged
• Because of diversity in the work place, we learn
  diversity sensitivity will improve our work life.

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Organize Exploring your own Prejudices and
Stereotypes

• Prejudice
• Evaluations or judgments of members of a group
  that are based primarily on membership in the
  group, and not on the particular characteristics
  of individuals
• Stereotypes
• Beliefs and expectations about members of a group
  that are held simply because of their membership
  in the group
• (women dont drive as well as men and white
  men cant jump )

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Exploring your own Prejudices and Stereotypes

• Where does prejudice and stereotypes come from
• Parents and relatives
• Organizations
• Media
• Peers
• Try It 2, page 317 (10 min.)
• Get into groups of 3 or 4 and discuss your
  answers to Try It 2 (15 min.)

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Work Developing Cultural Competence

• Exploring your own prejudices and stereotypes
  (First Step)
• Study other cultures and customs
• Travel
• Dont ignore peoples backgrounds
• none of us is color blind
• Impossible to be completely unaffected by
  peoples racial, ethnic, and cultural
  backgrounds.
• Dont treat people as representatives of the
  groups to which they belong
• Dont make assumptions about who people are.
  (Try It 3 Page 318) 10 min.
• Accept differences

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Evaluate Checking Your Progress in Attaining
Cultural Competence

• Do you make judgments about others based on
  external features
• Who are your friends
• Do you openly express positive values relating to
  diversity
• Are you educating yourself about history of
  different cultures

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Evaluate Checking Your Progress in Attaining
Cultural Competence

• Do you give special treatment
• Do you recognize all people have the same basic
  needs
• Do you take to much pride in your own heritage
  that you look favorably on others
• Can you understand life through others
  perspectives

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Rethink Understanding How Your Own Racial,
Ethnic, and Cultural Background Affects Others

• All of us question ourselves about who we are and
  what we are about
• Bridging the surface difference between you and
  others can result I n the development of close,
  lasting social ties

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Making Friends

• Invest time in others
• Reveal yourself
• Let others know you like them
• Accept other as they are, not as you would like
  them to be
• Show concern and caring
• Not everyone makes a good friend

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R-Word Relationships

• Trust
• Honesty
• Mutual support
• Loyalty
• Acceptance
• Loyalty implies that partners are supportive of
  each other, even in times of adversity and
  difficulty
• Willingness to embrace change

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Being a Good Listener

• Stop talking
• Demonstrated that you are listening
• Use reflective feedback listener rephrases what
  a speaker has said reflecting the meaning
• Ask questions
• Admit when your are distracted

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Loneliness

• Subjective state in which people do not
  experience the level of connection with others
  that they desire
• Become involved in campus activities
• Find a study partner
• Know that you are not alone in your loneliness
• Take advantage of orientation and first year
  social events
• Take a job on campus
• Loneliness is subjective and temorary

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It is Not Just Talk

• Subject is I and Not You
• Statements that cast responses in terms of
  oneself and ones individual interpretation
• Avoid being judgmental
• Try it 5 page 327 (10 min.)

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A win-win proposition

• Stop, look, and listen
• Defuse the argument
• Dont get personal
• Listen for the real message
• Show that your are listening
• Acknowledge you are angry
• Ask for clarification
• Be explicit
• Life is not a zero-sum game (winners and losers)

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Changing RelationshipsSurviving Ending

• Do something anything
• Accept that you feel bad
• Talk to a friend or relative
• Write about the relationship
• Talk to a professional