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COGNITIVE AND COMPARTMENTAL COPING STRATEGIES USED BY UNDER TRAINING MINE RESCUERS
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Stress agents are only potentially stressful, generating psychological stress only under certain conditions, even if some of them are able of generating stress reactions in most individuals. Therefore, effects of stressors depend not only on their own characteristics but also on attributes of the subject receiving their action such as quality and breadth of emotional responses, adaptive strategies available and mobilized in the created interaction etc. Specific responses to a situation that potentially endangers life are normal, although not always helpful. A better understanding of likely psychological responses in stressful situations, can help individuals feel they have better control and better ability to cope with the situation. All types of intervention and rescue personnel can be involved in any type of intervention, and the range of possible demands and risks that these workers may face is very wide. They can be particularly high when management and training are poor, coordination, information and communication are lacking or insufficient, training, safety and personal protective equipment are inadequate or insufficient. Potential coping strategies can be influenced, changed, learned or forgotten, through various ways such as psychological training programs, personal experiences or psychotherapy. Copying cannot be labeled as functional or dysfunctional in itself, its success depending on a multitude of personal and environmental factors. Knowledge of coping strategies used by individuals in stressful situations related to mine rescue activities is the starting point in the development of psychological programs, which aim to develop adaptive strategies to combat and increase the psychological well-being of mine rescuers.
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