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Stress And Adaptation Flashcards

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Stressors

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  • internal or external stimuli(factors) that cause stress

Crying child
Loud

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Stressors are also found in other ways

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Physiologic

  • wounds
  • illness

Psychological
-fear of failing a test
Waiting for surgery

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GAS-General Adaptation Syndrome

AKA Neuroendocrine Response

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A 3 stage reaction that describes how the body responds to stressors through the alarm reaction, resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage

Primarily in lives the

  • ANS and endocrine system
  • initiated by the pituitary gland:causes hypothalamus to secrete endorphins
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Alarm reaction

Fight or flight response

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  • the body is alerted to stressors
  • HR,BP, cardiac output, epinephrine and norepinephrine increased, blood flow to muscles increased, blood glucose increased
  • lasts minutes to hours
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Resistance stage

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Body tries to cope(adapt) to stressors and to limit the stressor to smallest area of body that can deal with it
- patient may be irritable,restless,decreased initiative.

  • body is trying to return to normal and fix any damages but can become ill if stress is not relieved due to powerful hormone fluctuations
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Exhaustion stage

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Too much to adjust to

Patient may be:depressed,depleted, slowed down, near death

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Factors influencing the response to stressors

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  1. Nature of stressor
  2. Number of stressors to be coped with at one time
  3. Duration of exposure to stressor
  4. Experience with comparable stressor
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Nature of stressor

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What it means to the person. What some find a minor stressor may be major to someone else

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Duration of exposure

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If stressor is extended beyond coping ability, person becomes exhausted and eventually dies

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LAS- Local Adaptation Syndrome

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More localized to a specific area/ or inflammatory response

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Anxiety

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A state of tension about impending danger

  • with anxiety may not always know what is causing it
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Levels of anxiety

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Mild
Moderate
Severe
Panic

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Mild anxiety

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A person is more alert and more aware

Can learn easily

Release of energy

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Moderate anxiety

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A persons perceptual field is narrowed.

Has selected attention

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Severe anxiety

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  • Perceptual field is greatly decreased

- All energy is going towards that stress

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Panic

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Dread
Terror
Details blown out of perspective

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Regimentation

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You are taking away most of patients choices and may feel anxiety

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Physiological results from anxiety

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Fatigue
Insomnia
Diarrhea 
Urgency
Dilated pupils 
Elevated BP/HR
NAUSEA
PERSPIRATION
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Suggestions for managing anxiety

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Be patient with yourself and other people

Try not to panic counseling for severe symptoms

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Attach behavior

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Act to remove it overcome a stressor

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Withdraw behavior

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Removing self physically or emotionally from stressor

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Compromise behavior

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Changing the usual method of operating, substituting goals, or omitting the satisfaction of needs to meet other needs

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Compensation

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Making up for a deficiency in one aspect of self-image by strongly emphasizing something else

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Conversion

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Unconsciously repressing an anxiety-producing emotional conflict, and transforming it into some other symptom

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Denial

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Avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that causes intolerance or emotional pain

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Displacement

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Is transferring emotions,ideas, or wishes from a stressful situation to a less anxiety producing substitute

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Identification

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Is patterning after that of another person and assuming that persons qualities, characteristics and actions

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Dissociation

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Experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and reduced awareness of ones surroundings

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Regression

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Coping with a stressor through actions and behaviors associated with an earlier developmental period

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Stress

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An experience in which a person is exposed through a stimulus or a dress or demand experienced by all people

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