Stress And Prevention Midterm

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Stress

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Stress is a demand on the adaptive capacities of the mind on the body

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stress Can be?

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Positive or Negative

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Body is strong and healthy?

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Positive Outcome

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Lack of ability to handle demands

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Negative Outcome

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too little Stress=

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boredom, lethargy

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Too much stress

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physical and mental breakdown

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proper balance of stress

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healthy, productive life

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Yerkes Dodson

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relationship between stress and performance, a specific amount of stresss can be healthy, useful, and beneficial

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However, when stress exceed the ability to cope performance diminishes, there inefficieny, and health problems occur

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Stressor

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any event perceived as a threat that causes adaptation or the initiation of a stress response

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Eustress

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postivie, desirable stress that motivates and inspires

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Distress

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negative effects of stress that drains energy

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acute stress

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short term, sudde, intense, disappears quickly

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episodic acute stress

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repeated bouts of acute stress, extended over-arousal

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chronic stress

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long term stress, unrelenting demands and pressures, last an interminable time

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Hollistic Health

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Health is more than the absense of disease and its more than just physical

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focuses on the physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, and emotional dimensions

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Medical health

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seeks treatment by experts, ignores stress until debilitating dysfunction occurs

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Evolution and the Stress Response

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100 mya sean animals moved on to land sparking prey/predator competition this resulted in a burst of physical energy

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early humans only faced physical stressors, no social stressors, after agricultural societies developed things became more complexed

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Fight or Flight Response

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designed for physical threats

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Fight or Flight response #2

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shifts physical funtioning toward strength and endurance, the system involves diverse components

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Flight or Flight response #3

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sympathetic activity increases heart rate, ventialation, blood pressure, secretes stress hormones, decreases parasympathetic

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components of fight or flight

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cns, endocrine system, stress hormones, circulatory, and they also target organs

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Stress can cause

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reduced immune response

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stress can cause

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an increase in health defeating behaviors

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stress can reduce

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the quality of one's sleep

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Chronic stress

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contributes to long term progressive disease states

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Direct

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physiological

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indirect

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behaviorial

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stress can disrupt

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cns or immune function

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psychosematic illness

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conditions that have a mind and body component

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placebo effect

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created by a person's belief that they will benefit from an intervention

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nocebo effect

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causation of sickness and deathy by expectations of negative outcomes

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psychoneuroimmunology

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complex communication between the nervous system, the psyche, and the immune system adn their implications for health

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Meditation

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dropping all purpose in order to be fully aware in the present moment- Mindfulness Being v.s. doing

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Mindfulness

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the practice of shifting attention to the present moment, stress usually doesnt involve our current experience

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Meditation v.s. Prayer

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prayer is the communication with god that might intervene human affairs meditation is just being centered in the present moment

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mental repitition

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mantra

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visual concentration

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mandala

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repeated sounds

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chanting

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physical repetition

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breathing, rhythmic exercise

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tactile repetition

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beads, rosaries, shells, stones, etc.

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Shame/guilt

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can promote responsibility

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Jealousy

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isnt a simple emotion, its a mixture of fear, anger, and control, jealousy can be normal, jealousy with out responsibility is control

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Positive Psychology

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how can psychology increase in well being and function regardless of mental dysfunction

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Seligman

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central figure of positive psychology, interested in optimism, happiness, character, spirituality, forgiveness, and society

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postive emotions are divided into past, future, and present, virtues are more important than just instant gratification

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Gratitude

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happiness doesnt always produce gratefulness, gratitude does lead to happiness, has an impact on our perceptions and emotion

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forgiveness

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releasus us from negative, emotional, and physical experiences, its an internal process and external, congruent with religous practice, when we dont forgive it can create hatred and anger

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Albert Ellis

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stress related behaviors are initiated by perceptions and the self defeating perceptions can be changed

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created the positive emotiv behavioral therapy (REBT) which focus on adversity, consequence, and beliefs (ABC)

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Frankl

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was nazi camp prisoner in WWII, he figured whatever the nazi captors did to him, he had the total and complete choice on how to respond to it

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negative emotions or feelings stem from our thoughts, not the situation or event itself

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grief

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religous grievers view death as a celebration

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Jung

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founder of analytical psychology, emphassizes the importance of balance and harmony, believed in the intergration of spirituality, and he stated that the human psyche by nature is religous

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Kubler-Ross

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introduced the five stages of grief, process by which people deal with grief and tragedy denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance