healthy psychology

this is a psychology lecture

health psychology

investigate the psychological factors that relates to mental wellness and illness, including preventing , avoiding and ttt to the problem

how health behavior help people ?

it can help how to avoid and reduce the problems

stress -

reacting to threat or challenge

they can be either positive (planning a wedding ) or negative (preparing for an exam)

our response to stress

GAS - General Adaptive Syndrome

developed selye

Alarm and Mobilization

It when people are aware of the stress stumil

it is when the sympathetic nervous system is activated

Resistance

the body starts to fight off itself

Exhaustion

when the person can not fight anymore they become physically ill .

why is stress bad to our body ?

when our SNS is activated :

1- the body starts to fight itself

2- affecting and jeopardizing our immune system

( cold cells and cancer cells starts spreading in the body )

coping with stress

1. coping
2. emotion-focused coping
3. problem-focused coping
4. avoidant coping
5. learned helplessness
6. hardness coping

coping

is the ability to control , reduce , tolerate (CRT)

emotion focused coping

is when we change how we feel about something

Problem-focused problem

it to change in behavior toward the problem

avoidant coping

it when the person starts running, using escape route to get away from his problem

learned helpessness

it is when the person it is out of his hand, there nothing they can do about it

hardness coping

it is the challenge (stability is everything )

commitment ( his work is above anything else )

control

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uplifts

is the little/ minor positive events that can make us happy and relaxed.

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more uplifts =

less psychological problems

more self esteem

happy person

= optimistic

what are emotions ?

emotions are contagious, so people tend to surround themselves with people who they relate to.