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Unit 2 Flashcards

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What are the 3 S’s

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Sleep, Stress, Self regulation

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Why are the 3 S’s important?

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Interconnected determinants of mental health, resilience and success at uni and other aspects of function

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What do the 3 S’s influence?

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Well-being, mental health and resilience

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3 S’s relationship resilience?

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Help in the development of ways to cope and adapt.
Protect emotional health

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Define stress

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State of emotional strain or unease. It is a normal response to demanding situations or pressured experiences in day-to-day life

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What is a common response to stress?

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Fight or flight response

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Is stress adaptive?

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In the short term yes, it helps keep you safe

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What is good stress?

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Small doses referred to as “eustress” are important for success in day-to-day life and building resilience to better cope with challenging situations

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How might stress be beneficial? Give example

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  • Exam stress: may motivate you to spend more time studying
  • Financial stress: may motivate you to avoid over-spending so that you have enough money to pay for important things
  • Social stress: May motivate you to meet new friends and make new associations
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Adaptive vs problematic stress

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Small amounts of stress can be adaptive. Too much stress can be harmful

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Inverted U-Theory

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Relation between pressure and performance. (shows when stress shifts from helpful to harmful)

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Low pressure or stress affect on performance

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Often results in boredom or weak performance

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What happens when pressure starts to increase?

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Increased attention and interest

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What is optimal performance?

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When more pressure or stress improves performance up to a certain point by prepping us to cope effectively with a challenge

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High pressure and stress affect on performance

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If stress is too high performance will decrease

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What level of performance is associated with high anxiety?

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Impaired performance or distress - can lead to meltdown if effective coping strategies aren’t in place

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What factors can influence your response to stress?

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Thinking (the way you think can influence stress)
Action (how you act can influence stress)

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When does optimal performance typically occur?

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Find spot between boredom and anxiety

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What is a flow state?

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Time when you were caught up in what you were doing - lost sense of self or lost track of time

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Why are flow states important?

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can increase happiness and wellbeing and strongly counteract stress

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When are flow states most likely?

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  • Intensely focus on the task and the present moment
  • Only do one thing at a time - Remove distractions
  • Focus on the process rather than the outcome
  • Practise this activity or skill a lot so it becomes automatic
  • Try something that is not too easy, not too hard, but that challenges yourself a little
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What happens when stress shifts from helpful to harmful?

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It is maladaptive and can overwhelm your coping resources and result in significant stress

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What feelings do people who experience chronic or overwhelming stress face?

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Irritability
Fatigue
Difficulty concentrating
Disorganized thoughts
Trouble sleeping

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Dost most situations have good and bad stress?

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yes, the goal is to reach a level of stress where performance is optimal

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What is sleep?

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State of the mind and body characterized by altered or reduced consciousness

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Why is good quality sleep important?

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Essential to your survival and plays a crucial role in both physical and mental health, brain function (emotional regulation and thinking)

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Close and bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health

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Poor sleep = decrease well being
Poor sleep = mental health = worry, difficulty coping with stress, low self - esteem = decreased well being

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What is self-regulation?

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Control over behaviour, thoughts, and emotion which can interact with each other

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Levels of self-regulation

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Behavioural
Cognitive
Emotional

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Behavioural level of self-regulation

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Involves setting a healthy rhythm to your day, keeping a balanced routine that involves self-care and good sleep hygiene

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Why is a consistent rhythm and routine important?

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Important for a biological clock and rhythms

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Cognitive level of self- regulation

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Involves managing difficult, negative, or intrusive thoughts and worries, and using cognitive strategies to manage stress

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What does cognitive self-regulation include?

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Spotting the thoughts that impact your mood, checking to see if they are accurate and realistic, shifting from warry to problem-solving and planning, looking for positive interpretations, and mentally reframing

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What does the emotional level of self-regulation include?

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Slowing yourself down, calming and relaxing yourself when stressed or tense, and pausing and thinking before acting, and acting in accordance with your values

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What helps with emotional regulation?

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Sleep, exercise, working with your thoughts

36
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How are the 3 S’s interconnected?

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They can significantly contribute to your ability to increase or decrease your resilience

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Why are the 3 S’s important?

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Interconnected determinants of your mental health that can influence one another

38
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Underlying mechanisms of stress, sleep and self-regulation

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Underlying biological, psychological, sociological and behavioural determinants that cause variations in stress, sleep and self-regulation

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Why are the underlying mechanisms of stress, sleep and self-regulation important

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They can help you make healthy choices, developing resilience and improving well-being

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Brain regions/structures important for the initiation and termination of stress

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Hypothalamus
Pituitary gland
Adrenal gland

41
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Hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal (HPA) Axis

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important part of the biological stress response system

42
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Stress response system

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Stress -> hypothalamus -> anterior pituitary - > adrenal gland

43
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What is your response to stress influenced by?

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How thoughts, bodily sensations, feelings, and behaviours all interact together. This relationship is represented in the fatigue

44
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Unhelpful vs helpful response to stress?

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Psychological factors that interact to produce a response to stress

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Social factors that influence stress?

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Can increase or prolong stress. Early history of trauma or neglect, feeling excluded, poverty, limited social support

46
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What populations have increased stress or poor mental health?

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BIPOC, LGBTQ2+, Disabilities, refugees, asylum seekers, lower socio-economic backgrounds

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Social factors that reduce stress?

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  • Supportive social network
  • Strong social identity
  • Sense of agency
  • Sense of belonging
  • Heard and listened too
  • access to opprotunities
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Intra- and inter- individual differences

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Genetic make-up and early life experiences, together with more recent social and psychological factors can impact how sensitive or reactive you are to stress

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Risk factors for increased stress?

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Perfectionism and self-doubt

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What is perfectionism

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Tendency to set unrealistically high expectations for yourself and/or others

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Why is perfectionism a risk factor for increased stress?

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Increases vulnerability for anxiety, depression and other mental health problems, and looks to be increasing in young people

52
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What is imposter syndrome?

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When you compare yourself to other people and think you aren’t good enough or don’t belong

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Ways to tackle perfectionism, self-criticism, and self-doubt

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  • Focus on strengths
  • Avoid comparisons
  • Mindfulness and self-compassion
  • Good enough
  • Challenge your beliefs
  • Growth mindset
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What is allostatis (equilibrium)?

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Process of responding to a challenge or stressor by triggering various biological and chemical processes to maintain balance

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Wear-and-Tear or allostatic load?

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Results from chronic or overwhelming stress. (Ex. Includes chronic overactivity or sensitivity of the HPA axis – always firing and difficulty finding equilibrium)

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Signs and symptoms of chronic or overwhelming stress?

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  • Cognitive changes (difficulty concentrating, attention, memory problems)
  • Emotional changes (moodiness, mood swings)
  • Physical changes (muscle tension, stomach issues)
  • Behavioural changes (sleep, eating, social withdrawal, substance use)
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What is sleep?

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A state of the mind and body characterized by altered or reduced consciousness

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What triggers sleep?

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Complex interactions between different hormones and biological cues

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What brain structures are involved in sleep?

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Hypothalamus plays important role in arousal

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Two basic types of sleep?

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Non rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (stages 1-3) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (stage 4)

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What is stage 1 (non-REM) sleep?

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the change from being awake to being sleep. It is relatively brief, lasting for only several minutes, and is characterized by light sleep that may involve

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Characteristics of Stage 1 (non-REM) sleep?

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  • Slowing heartbeat, breathing, and eye movements
  • Relaxation of muscles
  • Brainwaves begin to move slow
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What is stage 2 (non-REM) sleep?

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Period of light sleep before you enter deeper sleep.

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Characteristics of Stage 2 (non-REM) sleep?

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  • Further slowing down of heart beat and breathing
  • Eye movements stop
  • Deeper muscle relaxation
  • Body temp drops
  • Brainwaves slow even more but show brief bursts of activity
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What is Stage 3 of sleep?

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Type of sleep you need to feel awake and refreshed the next day. It usually occurs in longer periods during the first half of the night

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Characteristics of Stage 3 sleep?

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  • Further slowing of heart beat, and breathing. (Period when they’re the slowest!)
  • Deeper muscle relaxation
  • Brainwaves slow even more
  • It may be difficult to wake you up
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What is stage 4 of sleep?

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The first stage involving REM. REM sleep first occurs after the three non-REM stages (often about 50 mins after you have fallen asleep)

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Characteristics of stage 4 sleep?

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  • Rapid eye movements
  • Breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure increase to be close to waking levels
  • Brain waves have mixed frequency and start to resemble brain waves when you are awake
  • Most (but not all) dreaming occurs when in REM sleep
  • Your limbs become temporarily paralyzed so that you don’t act on your dreams
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Why is REM sleep important?

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Resets mental state

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What happens to REM sleep over the course of the night?

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REM episodes get longer in duration with most REM happening in the last third of the night

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Why are the stages of sleep different in older people?

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Older people spend less time in stages 3 & 4, or deep sleep. They tend to wake up more which interrupts the sleep cycle

72
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What benefits does sleep have?

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  • Cognitive
  • Emotional
  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Behavioural
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Important biological component of self-regulation?

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involves staying in tune with our bodies naturally-occurring rhythms and cycles

74
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What are circadian rhythms?

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Naturally occurring process, which forms your biological clock

75
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Why are circadian rhythms important?

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Ensure that your body is optimized at the correct time of the day through biological processes such as regulation of the sleep-wake cycle, energy levels, brainwave activity, and others

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Importance of biological rhythms?

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Disrupted circadian rhythms can result in a variety of serious cognitive, emotional, physical and behavioural changes

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Healthy Strategies for dealing with stress?

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  • self care
  • talk to someone
  • take a break
  • self-compassion
  • practice mindfulness
  • self-compassion
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Healthy strategies for sleep?

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  • Routine
  • Environment
  • Consumption
  • Exercise
  • Mindfulness (clear mind)
  • Support (non-medical and medical sleep aid)
  • reduce worry
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Healthy strategies for behavioural self-regulation?

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  • daytime/bedtime routine
  • avoid shifted sleep schedule
  • avoid disruptions in sleep schedule
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Healthy strategies for emotional self-regulation

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  • practice mindfulness
  • cognitive skills (reframing)
  • maintain a healthy lifestyle
81
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What triggers CRH release from the hypothalamus

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the sudden onset of this stressor

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What is the role of CRH?

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Stimulates the release of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from the anterior pituitary

83
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Where is glucocorticoid secreted from?

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adrenal gland as the end product of the axis

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