Unit 5 - Mental and Physical Health

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Health Psychology

The subfield of psychology concerned with ways psychological factors influence the causes and treatment of physical illness and the maintenance of health

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Stress

the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events that we appraise as threatening or challenging

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Hypertension

high blood pressure

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Immune Suppression

Any factor that prevents the immune system from working efficiently.

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Stressors

specific events or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person's well-being

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Eustress

A positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal

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Distress

a negative stress that can make a person sick or can keep a person from reaching a goal

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Stressful or traumatic experiences, including abuse, neglect, and a range of household dysfunction, such as witnessing domestic violence or growing up with substance abuse, mental disorders, parental discord, or crime in the home.

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

The concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases —alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

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Alarm Reaction Phase

The first step in general adaptation syndrome, where your sympathetic nervous system is suddenly activated.

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Resistance Phase

The second stage of the general adaptation syndrome, when there are intense physiological efforts to either resist or adapt to the stressor.

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