Chp 11

A _________ is one of the many life challenges that call on people to adjust to the unexpected and to adapt to a situation or event that is unpredictable, and more often than not, unwanted.

Kinds of Crisis

Any EVENT that poses a threat or challenge to an individual person.

i.e accident injury, loss of employ

A STAGE in a person's life where adjustment and adaptation to new responsibilities and life patterns are necessary

i.e. midlife crisis, child years to young adult years

A SITUATION where a person expericences Culture Shock in the process of adapting/adjusting to a new culture or returning to one's own culture after being assimilated into another is

A CRISIS of a proportion to affect an entire community of people is

i.e. HIV, TB natural disasters

Stages of Crisis are

Although theories and cultures vary, important psychological milestones include?

A stimulus that an individual perceives as challenging or harmful, is intimately involved with crisis is

The originator of the Stress Theory

Allow response to any stressors are

Selye demonstraated that there is a specific, predictable, physiologic response to stress, which is labeled?

Observed and recorded psychosocial responses to stress is

Two major responses to stress that Engel research is

Nursing theories definiging health in terms of succesful adaptation and equilibrium are consistent with the general metal health approach crisis is

Theories that emphasize caring is