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Chapter 14

Chapter 14. Stress and health. Behavioral medicine. An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to help tendencies. Health psychology. A subfield of psychology that provide psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine. Stress.

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Chapter 14

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  1. Chapter 14 Stress and health Chapter 14 stress and health

  2. Behavioral medicine • An interdisciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to help tendencies. Chapter 14 stress and health

  3. Health psychology • A subfield of psychology that provide psychologies contribution to behavioral medicine. Chapter 14 stress and health

  4. Stress • The process by which we perceive respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening more challenging. Chapter 14 stress and health

  5. General adaptation syndrome (GAS) • Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages. • Alarm • Resistance • Exhaustion Chapter 14 stress and health

  6. Coronary heart disease • The clogging of the vessels that mirrors the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed nations. Chapter 14 stress and health

  7. Type A • Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard driving, impatient, for relief aggressive, and anger prone people Chapter 14 stress and health

  8. Type B • Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easy-going, relax people. Chapter 14 stress and health

  9. Psychophysiological illness • Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches. Chapter 14 stress and health

  10. Lymphocytes • The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system. • B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow release antibodies to fight bacterial infections;T-lymphocytes form in the thymus another emphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, virus, and foreign substances. Chapter 14 stress and health

  11. Coping • Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods. Chapter 14 stress and health

  12. Problem focused coping • Attempting to alleviate stress directly-by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor. Chapter 14 stress and health

  13. Emotion focused coping • Attempting to alleviate stress by affording or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to one’s stress reaction. Chapter 14 stress and health

  14. Aerobic exercise • Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; they also alleviate depression and anxiety. Chapter 14 stress and health

  15. Biofeedback • A system for electronic league recording, amplifying, feeding back information regarding a subtle psychological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension. Each Chapter 14 stress and health

  16. Complementary and alternative medicine • Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, values and hospitals, not usually reimbursed by insurance companies. Chapter 14 stress and health

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