Health

Stressor

Something that causes stress

Response

The physical and emotional reactions to a stressor

two systems responsible for physical response:

Nervous and Endocrine systems

Voluntary control

When you tell your arm to reach for an orange.

involuntary control

things like digestion, heart rate, breathing, blood pressure.

actions of the nervous system and endocrine systems together

when your brain decideds that you are facing a threat, the two systems activate and release hormons like adrinaline.

effective behavioral responses to stress

preparing carefully and visualizing success.

ineffective responses to stress

overreacting, using tabaco, or alcohol, or expressing hostality.

personality

the sum of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional tendencies.

Hardiness

personality trait that is a particular form of optimism. They see fewer situations as stressful and react less intensely to stress.

stressed power motivation

associated with people who are aggressive and argumentative and who need to have power over others.

unstressed affiliation motivation

drawn to others and want to be liked as friends.

Resilience

Personality trait associated with the ability to face adversity and recover quickly from difficulties.

GAS

A pattern of stress responses consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Eustess

Positive Stressor

Distress

Negative Stressor

Stage one: Alarm

The body is more susceptible to disease or injury because it is geared ip to deal with a crisis. Someone in this stage may experience headaches, indigestion, anxiety, and disrupted sleeping and eating patterns.

Resistance

A person can cope with normal life and added stress.

Exhaustion

Stage where the bodys resources are depleted, and the body is unable to maintain normal function. If this stage is extended, long term damage may result.

body awareness techniques

Yoga, Tai Chi, Biofeedback, sleep.

Psychological Health

Mental health, defined as the extent to which we are able to funtion optimally in the face of challenges, wheather we have a mental illness or not.

Positive Psychology

Ability to define positive goals and to identify concrete, measurable ways of achieving them.

Maslows Hierarchy of needs

Physiological needs: food water etc. Saftely and Security,Love and Belongingness, Self-esteem, and Self actualization.

Seligmans perspective on positive psychology

“to find nurture genius and talent” and “to make normal life more fulfilling”

Seligmans three equally valid dimensions:

The plesent life, The engaged life, and the meaninful life.

what psycological health is NOT:

just know

Defense Mechanism

Mental mechanis, for coping with confluct or anxiety

Mood disorder

emotional disturbance that is intense and persistnt enought to affect normal finction; two common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder.

Risk factors for suicide

History of previous attempts, sense of hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, or worthlessness, medical problems, mental disorders, family history, isolations, neglection.

models of human nature and therapeutic change

The biological model, the behavioral model, the cognitive model, the psychodynamic model

Biological model

Emphasizes the minds activity depends entirely on an organic structure, the brain, whose composition is genetically determined. (medication therapy)

Behavioral Model

Focuses on what people do, their overt behavior, rather than on brain structures and chemistry or on thoughts and consciousness.

Cognitive Model

Emphasizes the effect of ideas on behavior and feeling.

Psychodynamic model

emphasizes thoughts.

3 neurotransmitters:

Glutamate, Gamma-aminobutryic acid, Glycine.