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Unit 7 Vocabulary: Stress Flashcards

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Where did Coach Brackett grow up?

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Cleveland Texas

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A persons physical and mental reaction to his/her inability to cope with a certain tense event or situation.

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Stress

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An event or situation that produces stress

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Stressor

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The bodies response to a stressor

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Stress reaction

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A type of stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure

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Distress

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Positive stress which results from motivating strivings and challenges

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Eustress

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When a person must choose between two or more options that tend to result from opposing motives

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Conflict situation

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A vague generalized apprehension or feeling of danger

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Anxiety

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The irate reaction likely to result from frustration

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Anger

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The usual reaction when a stressor involves real or imagined danger

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Fear

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Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected, and a part of a network of communication and mutual obligation

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Social support

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The interpretation. Of an event that helps determine its stress impact

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Cognitive appraisal

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A coping mechanism in which a person decides that the event is not really a stressor

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Denial

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A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint

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Intellectualization

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Lying down comfortably and tensing and releasing the tension in each major muscle group in turn

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Progressive relaxation

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A focusing of attention with the goal of clearing ones mind and producing an “inner peace”

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Meditation

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The process of learning to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled

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Biofeedback

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A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger

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Anxiety

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An intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation

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Phobia

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An extreme anxiety that manifests itself in the form of panic attacks

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Panic disorder

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Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams of flashbacks

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Physical symptoms for which there is no apparent physical cause

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Somatoform disorder

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Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function

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Conversion disorder

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A disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness

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Dissociative disorder

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The inability to recall important personal events or information; is usually associated with stressful events

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Dissociative amnesia

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A dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past

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Dissociative fugue

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Ability to take care of ones self and make ones own decisions

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Autonomy

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Friends force one another to reexamine their basic assumptions and perhaps adopt new ideas and beliefs

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Developmental friend ship

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Combining old ideas with new ones and reorganizing feelings in order to renew one’s identity.

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Resynthesis

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A vocation in which a person works at least a few years

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Career

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The concept that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs for comparable skills and responsibilities

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Comparable worth

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The fifth version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders

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DSM-IV

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Any treatment used by therapist to help troubled individuals overcome their problems

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Psychotherapy

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Method that combines various kinds of therapy or combinations of therapies

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Eclectic approach

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The influence that a patients hopes and expectations have on his or her improvement during therapy

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Placebo effect

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Capacity for warmth and understanding

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Empathy

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Patients work together with the aid of a leader to resolve interpersonal problems

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Group therapy

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Therapy aimed at making patients aware of their unconscious motives so that they can gain control over their behavior

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Psychoanalysis

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The apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem

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Insight

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A method used to examine the unconscious; the patient is instructed to say whatever comes into his or her mind

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Free association

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The reluctance of a patient either to reveal painful feelings or to examine long standing behavior patterns

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Resistance

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A technique used by psychoanalysts to interpret the content of patients dreams

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Dream analysis

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The process experienced by the patient, of feeling toward an analyst or therapist the way he or she feels or felt toward some other important figure in his or her life

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Transference

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Focuses on the value, dignity, and worth of each person; holds that healthy living is the result of realizing ones full potential

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Humanistic therapy

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Reflects the belief that the client and therapist are partners in therapy

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Client-centered therapy

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Empathetic listening; a listener acknowledges, restates, and clarifies the speakers thoughts and concerns

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Active listening

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A therapists consistent expression of acceptance of the patience, no matter what the patient says and does

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Unconditional positive regard

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A group of disorders characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions

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Schizophrenia

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False beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence

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Delusions

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Perceptions that have no direct external cause

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Hallucinations

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Severe form of lowered mood in which a person experiences feelings of worthlessness and diminished pleasure or interest in many activities

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Major depressive disorder

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Disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression

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Bipolar disorder

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Mail adaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and ones environment

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Personality disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of confidence

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Antisocial personality

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Use of a drug to such an extent that a person feels nervous and anxious without it

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Psychological dependence

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A pattern of drug abuse characterized by an overwhelming and compulsive desire to obtain and use the drug

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Addiction

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Physical adaptation to a drug so that a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the original effect

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Tolerance

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The symptoms that occur after a person discontinues the use of a drug to which he or she has become addicted

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Withdrawals

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