Stress and Health Guided Reading Review

Ch. 15 Mod. 36

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Stress and Health Guided Reading Review

Ch. 15 Mod. 36

Define Stress:

• Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are judged to be threatening or challenging.

Define Stressors:

• Events that cause a stress reaction (can come from within a source or externally and can vary from mild to severe)

Two Types of Stress:

• Distress- Unpleasant stressors (Broken down car, health problems)

• Eustress- Stress about positive events (high school graduation, planning a wedding, getting a new job)

What causes stress?

• All types of events can lead to stress. Some examples on the SRRS are: deaths in family, divorce, planning a vacation, finding a job, beginning and ending of school, Christmas, and moving.

Most stressful events for undergrads?

• Death of close friend

• Finals week

• Flunking a class

• Financial problems

What are hassles?

• Daily annoyances such as losing keys, minor disagreements, or annoying neighbors

Social Factors of Stress:• Poverty- With poverty usually comes other

burdens such as overcrowding, lack of medical care, poor prenatal health, violence, increased rate of illness, substance abuse and worrying about meals.

• Job Stress- pay, workload, hours, conditions, and lack of job security

• Culture- Our culture may also be a source of stress: expectations, issues, and pressure.

When does burnout occur?

• Negative changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of prolonged stress or frustration.

• Symptoms include:

– Extreme Dissatisfaction

– Pessimism

– Lowered Job Satisfaction

– Desire to Quit

What is Acculturative Stress?

• The stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a persons ways to the majority culture.

4 Types of Acculturation:• Integration: keep original culture and form

positive relationship with members of dominant culture

• Assimilation: Give up old ways and completely adapt to new ways.

• Separation: Reject majority culture and language. Socialize only with their group.

• Marginalization: not joining new culture or leaving old. Living in the “margins” between the two. Lack social support= very stressful

What is pressure?

• The experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for a person’s behavior that come from an outside source.

• Examples: pressure to get a job from parents

• Pressure to meet quota at work

• (reduces creativity, productivity, and interest)

What are frustrations?

• Daily annoyances that block perceived goal

• Internal- wanted to be an engineer and doing poorly in math

• External- Having wallet stolen and not being able to pay bills

General Adaptation Syndrome

• Alarm- Body reacts to stress. Sympathetic nervous system activated (increased heart rate, blood pressure, and endorphins)

• Resistance- continue to operate under stress, deep shallow breathes, may not feel pain

• Exhaustion- body resources depleted and stress still occurs you will experience exhaustion. Susceptible to stress related diseases

ANS

• Sympathetic- body’s response to stress (fight or flight response)

• Parasympathetic- When stress ends parasympathetic calms body and replenishes

TOTD: 1. How can stress lead to weight gain? 2.

Why do people possible hyperventilate when stressed?

How does cortisol effect immune system?

• Cortisol, released by adrenal glands when stressed, can suppress immune system and it even continues after stress is over.

Can stress cause cancer?

• Stress can suppress the immune system and “natural killer cells” that help attack viruses and cancer cells. Making it more likely for cancer to progress.

Stress Disorders

• Acute Stress Disorder- Within 4 weeks of traumatic event you experience anxiety, dissociative symptoms, flashbacks or “reliving” event, sleep disturbances. (62% of hurricane Katrina survivors)

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder- Long-lasting symptoms of sever stress and trauma (may appear months or years after stressor such as combat, loss of child, abuse, etc.)

TOTD: 3. What caused his PTSD? 4. What are his coping strategies?