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Stress and Health Psychology – Ch.3

Stress and Health Psychology – Ch.3. Introduction to Psychology Mercer County Community College. Chapter Three Overview. Understanding stress Stress and illness Health psychology in action Health and stress management. Understanding Stress.

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Stress and Health Psychology – Ch.3

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  1. Stress and Health Psychology – Ch.3 Introduction to Psychology Mercer County Community College

  2. Chapter Three Overview • Understanding stress • Stress and illness • Health psychology in action • Health and stress management

  3. Understanding Stress • Anything that places a demand on the body can cause ______________.

  4. Understanding Stress • Trigger that prompts the stressful reaction is called a ______________.

  5. Understanding Stress • Stress can be categorized as an eustress or distress. • Stress is defined as the body’s nonspecific response to any demand made on it; physical and mental arousal to situations or events that we perceive as threatening or challenging.

  6. e.g., of stress Eustress Distress Getting Divorced An injury Getting Fired Witnessing Violence Car Accident • Getting Married • Exercise • New Job • First Date • Buying a new car

  7. Understanding Stress • The Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) • An easy and popular measuring tool • Seven major sources of stress: • Cataclysmic events • Life events • Chronic stressors • Job stress • Hassles • Frustration • Conflict

  8. How Stress affects the Body • The sympathetic nervous system (SAM) / the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system (HPA) or HPA Axis. • General adaptation syndrome • Alarm reaction • Stage of resistance • Stage of exhaustion

  9. Stress and Illness

  10. Stress is related to four serious illnesses: • Cancer • Cardiovascular disorders (Heart Disease) • A-B Personality Types • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Gastric ulcers

  11. Health Psychology in Action

  12. Health Psychology • The study of how biological, psychological, and social factors affect health and illness.

  13. Health Psychology • Social Problems • Tobacco (smoking) • Alcohol

  14. Health Psychology • Concepts and definitions • Chronic Pain • Behavior Modification • Biofeedback • Relaxation Techniques

  15. Health and Stress Management

  16. Coping with stress • Coping is defined as an attempt to manage stress in some effective way.

  17. Coping with Stress • Stress depends on our interpretation of and our reaction to stressors, it’s relative. • Emotion-Focused Coping • Problem-Focused Coping

  18. Eight important resources for healthy living and stress management are: • Health & Exercise • Positive beliefs • Social skills • Social support • Control • Material resources • Relaxation • Sense of humor

  19. Effective coping(objective or subjective) • Depends on the stressor itself • Complexity • Intensity • Duration • Type of coping strategy used

  20. Effective coping • External locus of control • Outside forces • Internal locus of control • Control of one’s fate

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