10/6/2015 - Client Stability: Adaptation to Environmental Stresssors

Question 1

The process of modifying to meet new, changing, or different conditions

Answer 1

Adaptation

Answer 2

Behavioral Stability

Question 3

Dealing with change

Answer 3

Coping

Question 4

An innate or acquired way of responding to a changing environment or specific problem or situation

Answer 4

Coping Mechanisms

Answer 5

Empowerment

Question 6

A general arousal response of the body to a stressor characterized by certain physiological events and dominated by the sympathetic nervous system

Answer 6

General Adaptation Syndrome

1. ) Alarm reaction
2. ) Resistance
3. ) Exhaustion

Question 7

The tendency of the body to maintain a state of balance or equilibrium while continually changing; a mechanism in which deviations from normal are sensed and counteracted

Answer 7

Homeostasis

Question 8

The reaction of one organ or body part to stress

Answer 8

Local Adaptation Syndrome

Question 9

An event or set of circumstances causing a disrupted response; disruption caused by a noxious stimulus or stressor

Answer 9

Stress

Question 10

Any factor that produces stress or alters the body’s equilibrium

Answer 10

Stressor