Oxidative stress

Traditionally, most people believe that adulthood begins at the ages of 18 and 21, but I don’t feel like age defines adulthood, actions do. I say action over age because in order to be an adult it takes responsibility, behavior control, emotional control, financial control, and social control. With those characteristics, no matter what age you are, you could qualify as an adult. When I say that adulthood takes responsibility, I mean that you should be able to take care of yourself and if needed…

The concept of stress is a very unspecific idea itself even to this day. While everyone experiences stress many live with diseases and illnesses that expand the stress beyond what most people have to experience. The basic impacts of stress on everyday people and those impacts on people with chronic diseases can vary immensely, however the coping methods are all the same and in most cases can improve the living standards of anyone having trouble with stress. The effects of stress on people with…

releases hormones important to life, for example, cortisol, responsible for regulation of metabolism and helping the body respond to stress and aldosterone which is responsible for controlling blood pressure. The adrenal medulla is the internal part of the gland and it produces the adrenaline responsible for the body's reaction to stress. This hormone responds quickly to stress by rushing blood to the brain and muscles and raising the heart…

affect a healthcare system at the individual and the organizational levels, thus threatening the patient care consequently. Bullying has consequences for all stakeholders in the healthcare. Various research studies have shown its impact on work stress, nurse turnover rates, and the patient outcomes. It affects the victims negatively leaving a significant psychological and physiological impact on them. The implications for the organizations are also huge from the management perspective. The…

and others in the helping field who understand its complexities of this work. As a proactive measure, I would like to stay involved with at least one group of professionals such as CAMFT or a Christian therapist group. Another possible way to avoid stress would be to work in an office with other therapists coming and going rather than alone. As a private practice therapist, I will not have supervisors or other co-workers watching out to keep me from slipping into burnout. It is imperative for…

healthy is stress. Stress can be good or bad. Good stress is known as eustress and bad stress is distress. Eustress is stress that is beneficial when there is not too much of it. Eustress is stress that helps when there is a time crunch to get a project done or when there is danger. Eustress helps and like motivation in situations like this. It is when it is not used to motivate and becomes a continuous state of worry that it becomes a distress. Distress occurs when the chronic stress sets…

I would have to say that high caseloads are the main source of stress. It is no wonder that officers with heavy caseloads are the most stressful at work because they have a lot of cases to deal with. Paperwork follows as the next most major stress factor for many officers. Deadlines, many of which are unexpected or can’t be controlled, are the third most common stress factor. These sources of stress typically combine to produce an infuriating result, such as not enough time to supervise…

This phenomenon is associated with their organization and subculture, including external, organizational, personal, and operational stress. Overinvestment has a long-term characterization of alienating families and friends in their emotionally detachment. Examples happen to range from negative public opinions, exposure to violence, feeling of unappreciation, double-time or shift work, and constantly present threats. There exist a functional and dysfunctional reality in occupational alertness…

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines three different levels of stress: Acute Stress, Episodic acute stress, and Chronic stress (APA, 2016). Acute stress is the most common of all. In regards to a Law Enforcement environment, atypical work shifts and high risk situations to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder; the environment that police officers place themselves in take a psychological and physical toll on them and their spouses. Studies have revealed that law…

the lifespan. However, there are also the abnormal stressors such as, war, economic collapse, natural disasters, or murder. These tend to happen to family systems at random and make more of a longer and lasting impact. The ABC – X Theory of Family Stress model created by Reuben Hill is used to describe the process by which families survive and endure over the lifespan (Hill, 1949). The ABC-X model theory can be applied to the popular movie “The Blind Side”. Using this model to analyze the…