Emotional Awareness Loss Control July8 2009

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Becoming emotionally aware by learning how to reacting verusis responding to emotional situations

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James M. DeCarli, MPH, MPA, CHESInjury & Violence Prevention Program

Department of Public HealthLos Angeles County

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Emotions & Stress

Emotions & Workplace

Stress/Disease/Depression

Anger & Hostility‐effects in the workplace

Reacting versus responding

Mind/Body Interventions‐coping in the workplace

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•Communicates information about relationships to the self 

and world

•Motivates withdrawal or approach

•Closer (positive) or pushes away (negative)

•Adaptive

•Misinterpret

•Influences learning and memory

•Universal across cultures

•Body‐based

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Driver behavior‐you are driving on the freeway, a car in the fast lane to your left crosses in front of you, cutting you off, to make the off‐ramp, requiring you to slam on your brakes nearly hitting the car. The other driver misses the off‐ramp and continues on the freeway in the lane next to you and in front of you.How do you feel? What are your reactions?

A car cuts you off  Causing you to slam your brakes on

Fight or Flight 

Response

Stressor

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Function CauseAnger •Perceived violation

•Injustice•Frustration

Happiness •Perception of expectation of gainAnxiety/fear •Perception of threat

•Danger with difficulty copingSadness •Perception that something of value 

has been or will be lost10

•Experience same stimulus •Different emotional reaction

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2. Abstract/concrete

3. Upper or lower case words

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React versus respond

Mind/Body ‐coping in the workplace

Obtaining help

When

How

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James M. DeCarli

jdecarli@ph.lacounty.gov

(213) 351‐7846