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- Introduction to Pyschology
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- Niagara College ( )
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Week 10 NotesHealth and Stress -
Stress and Stressors -
Stress -
Physiological and psychological response to condition that threatens or challenges a
person.
Requires adaptation or adjustment.
Stressors -
Any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress.
Theories of Stress -
Approaches to Health and Illness -
Biomedical model -
Illness and biological factors.
Biophysical model -
Biological, psychological, social factors.
Health psychology -
Psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, how they
respond.
Hans Selye & General Adaptation Syndrome -
Walter Cannon -
Fight or flight response to stress with sympathetic nervous system.
Hans Selye and General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) -
Predictable sequence of reactions organisms show in response to stressors.
Three stages of GAS -
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
Alarm Stage -
Sympathetic nervous system releases hormones; fight or flight.
Resistance stage -
Physiological efforts to resist or adapt to stressor.
Exhaustion stage -
, If organism fails in efforts to resist stressor.
Any event requiring readjustment, positive or negative, will produce stress.
Eustress -
Positive or good stress.
Distress -
Damaging or unpleasant stress.
Everyday sources of stress -
Unpredictability and lack of control.
Nursing home residents had improved health, well-being, lower death rate if given
some control and life choices.
racism/historical racism and link to stress.
Catastrophes and chronic stress -
First stage = disoriented, often unaware of own injuries.
Second stage = victims show concern for others; follow directions of rescue workers.
Third stage = shock replaced by generalized anxiety.
PTSD -
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -
Prolonged, severe stress reaction to catastrophic or traumatic event.
Anxiety, psychic numbing, withdrawal.
Psychologically re-experiencing traumatic event.
PTSD symptoms = flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories.
Delayed PTSD = appears 6 months or more after traumatic experience.
Survivor guilt = survivors of war, catastrophic events experience.
Coping with Stress -
Coping -
Coping -
Our efforts to deal with taxing or overwhelming demands.
Problem-focused coping -
Reducing, modifying, eliminating source(s) of stress.
Emotion-focused coping -
Changing emotional responses.
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