Chapter 13: Stress Management

Front 1

An effective intervention framework for health promotion, disease prevention, and symptom management.

Back 1

Stress management

Front 2

Any physiological, social, environmental, psychological, or spiritual stimulus that disrupts homeostasis, thereby requiring change or adaptation.

Back 2

stressor

Front 3

The type of stress that can be challenging and useful is...

Back 3

eustress

Front 4

When stress becomes chronic or excessive, the body is unable to adapt and maintain homeostasis and thus becomes ____

Back 4

distress

Front 5

___ has emerged as a multidisciplinary perspective to integrate the "social" and "biological" world's.

Back 5

sociophysiology

Front 6

Stressors can be organized into three categories:

Back 6

extrinsic, intrinsic, and environmental/social/behavioral

Front 7

Due to the fight or flight response, or stress response, the hypothalamus signals the sympathetic nervous system to release _____ and ____ along with other related hormones.

Back 7

epinephrine, norepinephrine

Front 8

The physiological arousal along which three main pathways?

Back 8

musculoskeletal system, the autonomic nervous system, and the psychoneuroendoctine system

Front 9

The _____ system responds by increasing tension and tone.

Back 9

musculoskeletal

Front 10

The ____ system, via the sympathetic branch, orchestrates a generalized arousal that includes increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate.

Back 10

autonomic nervous

Front 11

The ____ system stimulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the secretion of corticosteroids and other neuroendocrine substances into the systemic circulation, increasing blood glucose levels, influencing sodium retention, and, in the acute phase, increasing the antiinflammatory response.

Back 11

psychoneuroendocrine