Stress and Coping

decreases and stabalizes

During the exhaustion stage, the physiological response has intensified and the ability to adapt to stress diminishes.

• Blood Pressure
• Heart rate
• Respirations

Denial is avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that cause intolerable pain

unconsciously repressing an anxiety-producing emotional conflict and transforming it into nonorganic symptoms

experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and reduced awareness of one's surroundings

transferring emotions, ideas, thoughts, and wishes from a stressful situation onto a less anxiety-producing substitute.

characterized by an increase in hormone levels leading to the initiation of a fight-or-flight reaction

the body stabilizes itself and responds in a manner opposite to that in the alarm reaction stage. It is during this time that the body repairs any damage that may have occurred

• Neuman's Systems Model
• based on concepts of stress and reaction to stress

Pender's health promotion model focuses on increasing the level of well-being of an individual or group by encouraging stress reduction strategies

a situational crisis is described as a situation in which a person faces a turning point in life.

• aims to return the client to a precrisis level of functioning and to promote growth
• attempts to connect a stressful event to the pts reaction to the event

Damaging stress

is a type of stress that results in motivational energy