Ap-Psych Unit 5

What does health psychology address ?

How physical health and wellness are influenced by behavior and mental processes

What is stress linked to ?

Hypertension, headaches, immune suppression

Types of stressors

Eustress , Distress, Traumatic , Hassales , Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s)

Eustress

Motivating stress that Helps achieve goals

Distress

Stress that impairs functioning

Truamatic

Significant life events

Hassles

Daily annoyances

Adverse Childhood Experiences ACE’s

Sources of stress that affect a person throughout their lifespan

Stages of General Adaptation syndrome (GAS) ??

Alarm Reaction - preparation for flight or flight

Resistance phase - body remains on high alert

Exhaustion phase - body weakens and easier to get sick

Tend and befriend theory

Theory that the more stresses we get the more likely we are to seek social interaction and display empathy towards others (this mostly occurs in women)

Problem Focused coping

solving the problem that causes you to stress

Emotion focused coping

Managing your emotional reaction to stress

Positive Psychology

Factors leading to well being resilience and positive emotions

Signiture strengths

Practicing signature strengths leads to increase in happiness

Three primary factors used to identify a disorder

Level of dysfunction, perception of distress and differentiation from social norms

Behavioral

Learned associations

Psychodynamic

Unconscious thoughts or childhood experiences

Humanistic

Lack of social support or unfulfilled potential

Diathesis Stress model

Disorders develop due to genetic vulnerability combined with environmental stress.

Symptoms of schizophrenia

positive symptoms - delusions hallucinations disorganized thinking

Negative symptoms - flat effect lack of typical behavior

Specific Phobia (Anxiety disorder )

Fear of specific items or situations

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Anxiety disorder )

prolonged experiences of nonspecific anxiety

Panic Disorder (Anxiety disorder )

Unexpected panic Attacks

OCD

obsession of thoughts and compulsions