Week Nine Flashcards
Stress
The psychological and physical response you experience when you perceive a discrepancy between the demands of a situation and your capacity to cope.
What does stress impact upon which can in turn affect communication?
Perceptions
Mood
Memory
Attitudes
Acute stress
Quick to appear, fairly intense, quick to pass
Chronic stress
Prolonged, insidious, lower intensity
What are the two ways in which stress can be perceived as?
A stimulus or a response
Stress as a stimulus
When your environment (or something about that environment) is stressful
E.g. Bushfires, car crash, diagnosis of major illness
Stress as a response
Your reaction to something in your environment is to experience stress. psychological - body is under strain (long hours, no sleep)
physical - behaviour, thought or emotion
Strain
Stress as a response and stimulus combined
Describe stress as a transactional process
The process of continuous interactions and adjustments between the person and the environment. In this process you assess your resources and the discrepancies between your resources and the demands you perceive to be placed on them.
Cognitive appraisals of the transactional process
The appraisal process has 2 stages
Primary - refers to whether or not the situation is perceived to threaten your wellbeing
Secondary - refers to your assessment of recourses available to cope with a perceived threat to you wellbeing
Eustress
Stress that is healthy or gives positive feelings or results
Define trauma…
Threat to ones safety or to the stability of ones world.
Involves death, or the threat of death serious injury, that causes, physical, emotional, psychological distress or harm.
Pathogenic model
Traditional victim-based model
Focus on negative outcomes and how to alleviate these outcomes
Outcomes - depression, withdrawal, PTSD, anxiety, poor communication
Salutogenic model
Survivor based model
Focus on strengths a person has and uses to survive extraordinary challenges
Vicarious trauma
Through another’s eyes
Emergency services
