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Stress
Psychology
| Appraisal support | helps planning in dealing with sources of stress |
| Biofeedback | consciously controlling one’s bodily functions through electronic monitoring |
| Cognitive appraisal | how stressful an event will be |
| Coronary Heart Disease | worsened by psychosomatic symptoms |
| General Adaptation Syndrome | react to chronic stress through a three-step process |
| Hans Selye | looked at long-term (chronic stress instead.· He proposed that we react to chronic stress through a three-step process known as the general adaptation syndrome. |
| Hardiness | describes someone who approaches potential stressors with a feeling of control and commitment |
| Holmes Rahe | SRRS |
| Hypertension | high blood pressure |
| Info support | evaluating the way that stress is dealt with (coping strategies) |
| INTELLECTUALIZATION | a defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves removing one's self, emotionally, from a stressful event. |
| Maladaptive | inhibit your ability to adjust healthily to particular situations, more harmful than helpful |
| Progressive relaxation | teaching the controlled relaxation of different muscle groups |
| PSYCHOSOMATIC SYMPTOMS | physical symptoms that are caused or worsened by stress and tension |