9/27b Self Awareness (Integrated Care and Practice)

Question 1

Mindfulness

Answer 1

Awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally to the unfolding of experience

• self awareness
• attention control
• Emotional regulation**

Question 2

Mindfulness strategies

Answer 2

• Mindful pause
• mindful breath
• mindful movement
• walking meditation
• meditation
• mindful body scan

Question 3

Stress

Answer 3

• physical
• physiological
• puts a strain on safety, wellness, or wellbeing
• demands in place, but no resources
• unpredictable change in environment
• inconsistency between expectation and outcome

Question 4

Physiological aspects of stress

Answer 4

1. threats and danger
   - NS: sympathetic fight or flight; parasympathetic rest and digest
   - endocrine system: ep and nor epi; cortisol
2. protectiveness response for stress
   - protective: increases arousal, energy, alertness, and performance
   - ineffective: rumination, worry, self doubt, wandering thoughts, negative loop
3. response is due to survival

Question 5

general adaptation syndrome

Answer 5

• alarm (positive)
• resistance (fleeing or fighting against the stressor until resources are depleted)
• exhaustion (overcome stressor, continue until exhaustion, death/extinction)

Question 6

chronic stress

Answer 6

• inflammatory cascade that leads to things that associate with a breakdown of the immune system
• objective physical markers for stress levels
• diseases of chronic stress (TMJ, osteoperosis, back pain)
• Stress hormone (cortisol) become a dysfunction that leads to cellular breakdown/death that is highly correlated with some of the main PT diagnoses

Question 7

Cognitive and behavioral changes of stress

Answer 7

Health/wellbeing
-depression
-fatigue
-burnout
-health
-life balance
Academic performance
-memory impairment
-impaired task performance

Question 8

stress in healthcare professional students

Answer 8

Leads to:

• decreased attention
• decreased decision making skills
• ineffective communication
• decreased ability to convey empathy
• poor relationships with patients

Question 9

resiliance

Answer 9

how you react to stress and how you build your reactions to stress, you can adjust thresholds for resiliance

Question 10

Perceived vs actual stress

Answer 10

different mindsets to stress: Fixed vs Growth mindset

Question 11

the system for appraising threats

Answer 11

• Hippocampus
• Amygdala
• Hypothalamus