Unit 13: Mental and Psychical Health Flashcards
Health Psychology
the study of how Psychology, behavior, and cultural factors affect health and well-being.
Psychoneuroimmunology
the study of how your mind and body affect your immune system and health.
Eustress
when stress positively motivates people.
Distress
when stress negatively affects people
Cortisol
When you are stressed your body releases _________, which is a hormone that helps you deal with stress.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Hans Selye proposed that we go through stress in 3 distinct stages:
Phase 1: Alarm - Body prepares for stress
Phase 2: Resistance - Body shoot addrenilline to help fight stress
Phase 3: Exhaustion - Adrenaline wears off and you have no energy left.
Tend and Befriend
One of the most successful ways to deal with stress is called the Tend and Befriend approach. This is when people deal with stress by attending to their own needs and the needs of others. Study show women are more likely to use this strategy than men.
Coping
defined as alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, and behavioral methods.
Problem-Focused Coping:
sees stress as a problem and working on solutions until one is found.
Emotion-Focused Coping:
managing emotional reactions by avoiding or ignoring the stressor through breathing, meditation, therapy, etc.
Negative Health Outcomes of Stress
Stress can lead the body to not fight cancer cells as aggressively, it can lead to Coronary Heart Disease a leading killer of people worldwide, among other negative health outcomes.
Type A
personality is someone who is hard-driven, verbally aggressive and anger prone. They typically handle stress poorly.
Type B
personality is someone who is easygoing and relaxed and typically handles stress better.
Things that help to overcome stress
Having self control
Being optimistic
Having an Internal Locus of Control
Having social support
The 3 Criteria for Psych Disorders
Deviant - Strange for the culture you are in.
Distressful - It bothers the person doing it.
Dysfunctional - It bothers others.
Ancient Treatments of Psychological Disorders:
were barbaric because people treating Psych Disorders did not realize what the true cause of the disorder was.
Medical Model
it is a perspective that looks at every Psychological disorder as having a biological or physical cause.
Biopsychosocial Perspective
Assumes that biological, socio-cultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders.
Diathesis-Stress Model
says that people have a genetic predisposition for disorders that can be triggered by environmental factors.
Nature vs. Nurture
Examples?
Some disorders are equally spread out across all cultures. Others disorders are concentrated in certain areas or regions.
Ataque de Nervios
Typically found in Latin American cultures it’s a syndrome of intense emotional distress which can often cause shaking and trembling
Taijin Kyofusho
Typically found in Japan it’s a fear that others are judging our bodies or behaviors as undesirable. (Body odor, Gaze, etc.)
Classifying Psychological Disorders
The American Psychiatric Association rendered a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition Text Revision (DSM-V-TR)
Internationally Psychologists use WHO’s International Classification of Mental Disorders
Labeling a Psychological Disorder
Labeling a person with a Psychological disorder might be bad because the label may come to define who the person is.
Labeling Psychological disorders is good because it helps to treat people with those disorders.
