User:KESigmund13/sandbox

September 20, 2011
I created my sandbox so that I wouldn't be marking up the wikipedia articles that I plan on editting. I'm hoping that this way I'll be able to more easily play with the mechanics of the site before someone calls me out too badly. Here we go!

Also, we could talk about strategies in fixing with Avoidance Coping as well as symptoms, etc. Oh! Here is your other source to help out with! I didn't see that there. Well if we could source that for our annotated bibliography, that would be great!KESigmund13 (talk) 13:42, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Chosen Article
Avoidance coping

What I'm hoping to do is just to increase the knowledge about Avoidance coping in general. I know that it is connected to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but I think that could cause it to merge and lose its own article. So I'm hoping to just expand upon what it really is. Maybe I could even expand on its symptoms and whatnot. Really since there is nothing here at the moment other than a definition and my own information, I have a lot to work with. So I'm starting by collecting a few sources to point me in a general direction. As people help me to edit, I will be more than happy to talk with them about how the work for this article should go about.

SOURCES BEING LOOKED INTO:

Kantor, Martin. The Essential Guide to Overcoming Avoidant Personality Disorder. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010. Print.

Kantor, Martin. Distancing: a Guide to Avoidance and Avoidant Personality Disorder. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. Print.

KESigmund13 (talk) 11:56, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Avoidance Coping Article
Avoidance copingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search This article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject. Please help improve the article with a good introductory style. (August 2010)

Avoidance coping, or escape coping, is a kind of generally maladaptive coping,[1] characterized by the effort to escape from having to deal with a stressor. It can also be called by the name of Classic or Type I Avoidant Personality Disorder.(Essential Guide) [2]Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms are thought to be the precursor to avoidance coping. PTSD symptoms are high stress which cause the person suffering from them to draw into themselves, avoiding the problem entirely and leading to avoidance coping whether it be cognative or behavioral.[3]

Signs of Avoidance Coping

People who characterize Avoidance Coping tend to exihibit the following:

(Essential Guide)
 * 1) Withdrawl from relationships, socialness, or an overall fear of commitment.
 * 2) A fear of rejection from peers, family, or even strangers.
 * 3) An overall timid personality in daily life.
 * 4) Lack of self confidence or the belief that they will not be able to achieve goals or belief that they are not adequent in their daily lives in general.
 * 5) Nervousness or fear in new social situations, such as tranferring to a new school or a new job at work. Many have this kind of anxiety, but avoidant personalities take it to a whole other extreme. In some case they can even hypervenilate and black out do to the high levels of anxiety.

Avoidance Behavior-Avoidance or escape behaviors performed in a state of anxiety become strengthened when they are successful in reducing the anxiety state. This can have positive and negative effects. The positive is that person can use  a problem solving  or some form of it  and the success of the person's escape can lead to a relief. Which will be strengthened by this. The negative effect can be the case when the fearful person continues to defensively avoid similar or related situations instead of unlearning his or her fear of them. [5]

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology provides a study conducted on athletes’ coping style as a function of gender and race using the approach-avoidance framework. The purpose of this study was to identify the coping styles of competitive athletes during the contest perceived as highly stressful using approach and avoidance coping frame work. After the results suggested that the athletes’ preferred the avoidance coping style. What is interesting is that the male athletes’ used more approach coping than female athletes’. Though no significant interaction was found and further research will be needed this shows one way how avoidance coping can be involved in stressful situations [4]

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Related ConceptsExperiential avoidance References 1.^ Moshe Zeidner,Norman S. Endler, ed (1995). Handbook of coping: theory, research, applications. Wiley. pp. 514. ISBN 978-0-471-59946-3.

2.^ Friedman, Howard S.; Roxane Cohen Silver (2006). Foundations of health psychology. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 124. 3.^ Tiet, Quyen Q.; Rosen, Craig, Cavella, Steven, Moos, Rudolf H., Finney, John W., Yesavage, Jerome (NaN undefined NaN). "Coping, symptoms, and functioning outcomes of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder". Journal of Traumatic Stress 19 (6): 799–811. doi:10.1002/jts.20185.

4.^ Anshel, Mark H., Minsoo Kang, and Michael Miesner. "The Approach-avoidance Framework for Identifying Athletes’ Coping Style as a Function of Gender and Race." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (2009). 5.^ Mischel, Walter. "Part II/Personality Development and the Coping Process." Introduction to Personality. 3rd ed. New York: CBS College, 1981. 426-27.

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KESigmund13 Article Additions
I thought it would be a good idea to have seperate sections for each of our work before we combine them in the dumby article here in the sandbox. So this is my little mini section where I'll put stuff as I write in my part of the article.KESigmund13 (talk) 13:42, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Avoidance coping, also called Classic or Type I Avoidant Personality Disorder display a number of symptoms that are used to diagnose the person so that they may be treated. They can include some or all of the symptoms that will follow. The person tends to draw inward. They don't wish to be involved in relationships or social activites, usually showing a fear of commitment. They do this due a fear of rejection from their peers, family, or even strangers that they just meet. This withdraw can create a sense of timidness and appear through out the personality with indecision and a lack of confidence in their own beliefs or hopes and achievements.KESigmund13 (talk) 14:12, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

I will look for a couple more sources, as I have found one and create an annotative bibliography and place it below here so that you can place it where it needs to know because I don't know where it needs to be. --BSchaefferNERD (talk) 17:58, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

User:JC92scc Article Additions
for annotative bibliography This article from the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology provides a study conducted on athletes’ coping style as a function of gender and race using the approach-avoidance framework. The purpose of this study was to identify the coping styles of competitive athletes during the contest perceived as highly stressful using approach and avoidance coping frame work. After the results suggested that the athletes’ preferred the avoidance coping style. What is interesting is that the male athletes’ used more approach coping than female athletes’. Though no significant interaction was found and further research will be needed this shows one way how avoidance coping can be involved in stressful situations
 * source as follows Scandinavian Journal of Psychology; Aug2010, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p341-349, 9p, 4 Charts

will be looking into these next sources
 * http://www2.stchas.edu:2286/ehost/detail?sid=41f90f69-1677-4312-8887-86d9750af58b%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=19&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=44205011

Avoidance Coping Strategies|url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/publications/avoidance_coping_strategies_moderate_the_relationship_between_selfefficacy_and_5year_alcohol_treatment_outcomes|accessdate=1 November 2011 This is the link that was above before. I moved it here so that we still had it here, but the reference list would work out well with the parts in our annotated bibliography

Annotated Bibliography
1.The author has spent years studying this subject, so in my mind that qualifies as a bit of an expert as well as the fact they they have an M.D. After years of work I would assume you would know your stuff. This book covers the topic of Avoidance Coping and how it happens in daily life. It covers things like people using avoidance coping because of low self esteem and fears in their daily lives. This book tries to cover how to overcome the use of this type of coping to live a healthier life in general. It would be a great source since it covers the topic as well as going into specific cases about it and its symptoms. It seems though that it is a bit more for the person that has studied the topic, since the terms can be a little challenging at times.

2. This book is by the same author as the source above. So if this a good source, this one should be a well since it was written again by an expert in the field. Where the first book talks about the use of avoidance coping in daily life, this book covers more of how to fix the problem. It is a guide to help those that suffer from this problem as well as the people around them who want to help them. The language doesn't seem as diffucult here when you are in certain parts of the book. This book is written both for people who need to understand it as well as for psychatrists who are looking into it.

3. Mausbach, BT. "Avoidant Coping Partially Mediates the Relationship between Patient Problem Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms in Spousal Alzheimer Caregivers." Pubmed.gov. Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 14 Apr. 2006. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.  This is a new article that I chose to add to because I found it to have some useful information regarding those who cope using avoidance.

4. Tull, Dr. Matthew. "PTSD and Emotional Avoidance - Coping With PTSD and Emotional Avoidance." PTSD - PTSD Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment. About.com Health's Disease and Condition Content Is Reviewed by the Medical Review Board, 06 Nov. 2008. Web. 27 Nov. 2011.  This source is very informative as to treating those with avoidance coping methods as well as symptoms of avoidance coping.