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30 Cards in this Set
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Stressors
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specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the persons well-being
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Health Psychology
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subfield of psychology concerned with ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health
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Chronic Stressor
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A source of stress that occurs continuously or repeatedly
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General Adaptation Syndrome
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A three-stage process that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered
a. Alarm phase b. Resistance phase c. Exhaustion phase |
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Immune system
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response system that protects the body from bacteria, viruses and foreign substances
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Lymphocytes (T cells and B cells)
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white blood cells that produce antibodies that fight infection
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Atherosclerosis
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gradual narrowing of that occurs as fatty deposits,plaque, build up on the inner walls of the ateries
- main cause of coronary heart disease |
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Type A behavior pattern
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the tendency towards easily aroused hostility, impatience, a sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement strivings
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Primary appraisal
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allows you to acknowledge something as a stressor
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Secondary appraisa
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determining whether the stressor is something you can handle or not
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Threat or challenge
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body responds differently depending if the stressor is a threat or a challenge
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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psychological disorder characterized by chronic psychological arousal, recurrent unwarranted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the trauma to mind
- soldier study with twins = people who have smaller hippocampus may be more susceptible to PTSD |
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Burnout
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A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion created by long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied by lowered performance and motiviation
- particular problem in helping professions |
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Repressive Coping
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Avoiding situations or thoughts that are reminders of a stressor and maintaing an artificially positive viewpoint
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Rational Coping
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– facing stressor and working to overcome it
a. Acceptance b. Exposure c. Understanding |
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Reframing
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– new way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat
- can happen spontaneously if client patient spends time thinking and writing about stressful events |
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Stress inoculation training (SIT)
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a therapy that helps people to cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to think about the situation
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Relaxation therapy
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a technique for reducing tension by consciously relaxing muscles of the body
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Relaxation response
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a condition of reduced muscles tension, cortical activity, heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure
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Biofeedback
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use of an extrenal monitoring device to obtain information about bodily functions and possibly gain control over that function
- Massage and therapeutic touch |
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Social Support
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- the aid gained through interacting with others
a. Helpfulness of social bonds b. Loneliness: stress, depression and illness c. Tend-and-befriend = a female response to stress by taking care of people and bringing them together d. Oxytocin and social responses - |
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Humor
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a. Short term benefits
b. Long term pitfalls |
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Placebo Effect
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a clinically significant psychological or physiological response to a therapeutically inert substance or procedure
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Psychosomatic Illness
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an interaction between mind and body that can produce illness
- Somatoform Disorder |
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Somatoform Disorders
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set of psychological disorders in which the person displays physical symptoms not fully explained by a general medical condition
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somatization disorder
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psychological disorder involving combinations of multiple complaints with no medical explanation
- Somatoform Disorder |
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conversion disorder
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disorder characterized by apparently debilitating physical symptoms that appear to be voluntary -- but that the person experiences as involuntary
- Somatoform Disorder |
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The Sick Role
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a. Set of rights and obligations linked with illness
b. Malingering = people who feign medical or psychological symptoms to achieve something they want |
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Optimism
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a. positive health benefits of optimism
b. Positive psychology movement |
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self-regulation
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the exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards
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