Stress+ Healh Psycho+ Psychopathology

Question 1

Acute and chronic stress

Answer 1

Acute: short period of arousal
Strong onset and offset pattern
E.g. cha d hit someone when drive

Chronic stress
Continue state of arousal
When they receive demand more than resource they have/ overtime working

Question 2

Physiological response to acute stress

Answer 2

Fight or flight response
Faster breath
Increased heart rate
Slow digestion
Hormonal change

Question 3

Physiological of chronic stress

Answer 3

Alarm reaction- arousal to vigorous activity
Resistance- stronger arousal against stressor
Exhaustion: empty of body resource
1. Will cannot fight cancer cells

Question 4

Trauma

Answer 4

Personal : accident
Global: 911
PTSD post-traumatic stress syndrome
1.persistent re-experience traumatic event
2. Dreams , flashback
3.emotional numbness
4.social alienation

Question 5

Chronic stress s/s

Answer 5

1. Worry the trasient stress will recur
2. Socioeconomic factor
3. Racial identity
4. Social climate 社會風氣

Question 6

Coping

Answer 6

Cognitive appraisal of stress
First assesment: asses the stressor and influence
Second assessment: asses the personal and social resource available

Appraisal of stress can moderate the impact of stress

Problem-directed coping
Confront the stressor
Asses the situation as controllable
Adopt problem-solving stratergies

Emotional focus
Asses the situation as uncontrollable
Adopt the strategies that reduce the impact of stressor

Modify cognitions
Reappraising cognitions— at different perspectives
Stressor less threatening

Question 7

Stress inoculation

Answer 7

1. Feel stress
2. Comprehensively appraise the stress and distinguish the stressorting
3. Reevaluating the stressor and adopt adaptive behavior

E.g. was procrasinating—> yuen loi do is easier
Try to do by bute to bite
Turns out can

Question 8

Social support of stress

Answer 8

Emotional support
Financial support
Informational support
Stronger social support reduce the impact of stressor (highly social connectedness person has less s/s of PTSD)

Question 9

Stress always bad?
No, such as eustress

Answer 9

Eustress is stress that moderately stimulating us
Such as roller coaster or vonluntary piano exam— brings pleasure iultimately

Curvilinear relationship between stress vs performance

Camp-no
Eustress-Yes
Distress-No

Question 10

Model of wellbeing

Answer 10

1. Subjective wellbeing
2. Optimal functioning
3. Authentic happiness
4. Well-being model

Question 11

Subjective wellbeing.

Answer 11

Satisfactory with life scale
Positive & negative affect schedule- expand (panasx)
Positive & negative schedule- short form (panas-sf)

Question 12

Optimal functioning-psychological wellbeing

Answer 12

Self-acceptance
Personal growth
Purpose in life
Environmental mastery
Autonomy
Positive relationship

Question 13

Authentic happiness

Answer 13

The pleasant life
The good life
The meaningful life

Question 14

Models of wellbeing

Answer 14

The wellbeing model
The perma model
1. Positive emotion
2. Engagement
3. Positive relationship
4. Meaningful
5. Accomplishment

Question 15

Psychotherapy

Answer 15

Goals:
1.make unconscious dream or desire conscious
2. Strengthen ego
3. Encourage mature use of defensive mechanism

Question 16

Therapeutic relarionship

Answer 16

Client relax on couch
Therapeutist sit behind
Uncover and analysis repressed materials

Technique
Dream analysis
Free association
Transference

Question 17

Goals of therapies

Answer 17

Humanistic therapy-
1.facilitate trust
2.promote self-awareness

Behavioural therapy-
Increase behavioural options
Create new condition for learning
Goals are clearly formulated
Emphasis on client’s responsibility

Cognitive behavioural therapy
1.Let go the dysfunctional belief and create an adaptive and rational belief
2.generalise learning into daily setting