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Stressors
external demands of stress
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coping strategies
efforts to deal with stress
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distress
BAD STRESS= MORE DAMAGE
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THREE AXIS 1 diagnosis
- adjustment disorder
- acute stress disorder
- post tramatic stress disorder
severity, key and time in which they occur
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factors predisposing a person to stress
- Bcus ppl are uniqure, no thwo people are faced with exactly the same pattern of stressors
- some more than others, coping skills, resources, individual charactersitics, optimisism, underlying genetic differences, amount of stress, stress tolerance, perception
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stress tolerance
refers to a persons ability to withstand stress without becoming seriosuly impaired.
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CHARACTERISITCS OF STRESS ; THINK ANXIETY
- severity
- chronicity
- timing
- how closely it affects our lives
- hot expected it is
- how controllable it is
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which events more likey to place a person under severe stress?
- unpredictable
- unanticipated event.
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Crisis VS Stress
crisis overwhelms a persons ability to cope
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life changes, even positive ones, may b stressful and trigger_______.
- disorders; bipolar
- faster life changes;morestress
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Rating Scale for Stress
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
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Personal growth?
Yes but not always,depends on the stress
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Interview based approach
Life Event and Difficulty Schedule
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Body undergoes biological changes; two distinct systems are:
- SAM system- flight or fright response-hypothalmus
- HPA system- hypothalmus releases a hormones including cortisol
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If not shut of..cortisol can damage (hippo loses brain cells)
brain cells in the hippocampus
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Biological cost of adapting to stress is called
allostatic load
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