Ch. 10 Stress Flashcards
Biomedical Model
- Perspective focuses in on illness rather than health
- Views and explains illlness in terms of biological factors without the pysch/social factors
Biopyschosocial Model
Health and wellness perspective
- Determined by combination of bilogical factors
Health Pyschocology
Filed based on the pyschological factors that add to health, illnerss, and our response. Promotes interventions for good health and ilness response.
Factors Influencing Death
- Stress, unleathy choices, dieases
Stress
The physical and pyschological response of the body and the demands made on the person. Any event that is physical or pysch
- Must adapt, cope, and adjust
- Stressors like hassels and negative life problems predict physical health issue.
Stressor
Ability to produce stress such as emotional or physical
Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale SRRS
- Lists 43 life changing events that can occur measured as life changing units
- Those accumlating 300 or more LCU within year greater risk for health
Three types of stress we encounter
- Eustress U stress
- Cumulative Stress
- Distress Stress
U-stress
- positive stress that is pleasant, desirable, healthful
- Stress that is positive motivation force
- may lead to increased health and performance ( sexual arousal)
- Intense stressors affect moods and impair ability to see pleasure.
Cumlative stress
- Form of long-term stress arousal that builds slow overtime
- Yields feelings of fatigue and lack of concentration
- Leads to burnout- eroding of healty coping mechanisums like daily stress, family dynamics
Distress stress
- Short term or longer term stress arousal building
- Negative dysfunctional force and leads to diease and healt decline such as tramatic events ( death, divorce, trama , accidents)
Emotional Burnout
The mental and physcial exhasution that pyschologically and physically incapciates one yielding: anixety, panic, poor con., loss of control, headaches, autoimmune issue.
Sources of stress daily hassles
Frustarting, annoying, irritating stressers of life
- Hassles can pile up, significantly challenge us
- Affect physical and pyschological health more than life changes
Life changes
Major events positive or negative
- Unlike daily hassles these do not occur regularlly
Lack of control
- Well-being influenced by the degree of self control felt over events in life
- Paitents with conditons
Workplace stressors
- Co-worers and bossess
- Deradlines, tasks. emotional, sexual, verbal abuses
- Increase amount of stress leaves occuring
- Workplace stress is negative emotional/physcial responses to event at work
- Requires adapting and coping
- Leads to dissatifcation, cause of 25% leaving jobs
- Affects 70% and is a main issue
Tramautic Events
- Those events that expose people to unordinary extreme calamities. These events may have a significant affect on the victums exposed as well as the secondary witnessess who see it later on.
- Secondary witnesses’s effect: such as watching a news report can be refered to as he vicarious effect which ourrs when watching news about acts of terrosisms
- Tramautic/Catratsrophic events can be very stressful for both those involved and witness’s.
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing From Tramatic Event
- Holds idea that what you are feeeling is a normal reaction to these strange and tramatic events.
Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
- Acute DIsorder
- PTSD
Acute Stress Disorder ASD
- ASD is common, normal, and adatpive response to having expereinced a stressful and tramatic event.
- Triggers of ASD include car accidnt, police involvement
- ASD occur within month of tramatic event occuring and lasts from 2 days to 4 weeks
- Typically ASD Post Tramatic Stress lasts less than 1 month.
Post Tramatic Stress Disorder PTSD
- PTSD is a mental health conditon triggered by terrifying and tramatic events
- Disorder that follows a horrific event occuring such as harm, disasters, threat, assult, deaths
- Characterized by intense fear, avoidance of the stimuli associated to event
- Occurs within 6 months or more following a tramatic evebt and is persistent
- Some symptoms of PTSD: reliving the event via nightmares, flashback, constant thinking
- Firefighters, front line workers, victums of disaster are vulnerable
- PTSD to be clincally dignosied by physican recgonzed by authrority. PTSD is listed within the DSM5
Effects of PTSD
- Due to prolonged stressful event o r severe reaction due to a tramatic event.
- Axniety, withdrawl, panic
- Those living with it constanlty relieve it
Richard Lazarus Congitive Theory of Stress
- Pinonerred study of stress and emotion relation
- Theory of emotion centered on concept of appriasal
- Dealt with how individual may evaulate impact of the event on their own well-being
- Divided into 4 Stress Phases based on two thinking patterns following event
- Stress is determined not only by external factors but cogntiive apprasials: Deal with stress diffferently based on how they interpret event and outcome of thinking patterns ( appraisals).
Four Phases of Stress Lazarus
- Casual Agent: the main stressor
- Evaluation of stressor: assessment , cognitve threat or no Priamry Apprasial: assessment of situation , good or bad
- Mind and Body Coping Process: How you physically and mentally cope to deal with stress
Secondary apprasial follows by the assessing of own ability to handle with it. - Stress Reaction: Pattern of effects on the mind and body , complex.
