week 4 Flashcards

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religion and spirituality

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The human experience of spirituality involves experiences of self-transcendence and connection with something larger than oneself, which may or may not be religious in nature

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Implications of stress responses for psychopathology

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chronic and repeated stress as well as maladaptive responses to stress may place individuals at elevated risk for multiple mental disorders

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Stress-vulnerability view of mental disorders

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Diathesis stress model posits that psychological disorders result from an interaction between inherited vulnerability (diathesis) and environmental stressors (life events).

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Spirituality and stress

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spirituality: self-transcendence and connection with something higher. Stress: disruptions to individual’s psychological homeostatic processes
Spirituality has been linked to resilience against stress.

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neuroplasticity

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Continuous stimulation of corticostriatal-limbic circuitry by chronic or over- whelming stress may lead to neuroplasticity that underlies maladaptive patterns in the brain and dysregulation of neural circuitry”

MRI studies demonstrate associations between corticostriatal-limbic circuitry and stress, suggestive of its detrimental effects in the brain.

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