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1
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A situation that threatens one’s physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness

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Traumatic stressor

2
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Suddenly violent calamities, either natural or manmade, that cause trauma

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Catastrophic Event

3
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What are the 5 stages that occur in the wake of natural disasters?

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  1. Psychic numbness
  2. Automatic action
  3. Communal effort
  4. Letdown
  5. Recovery
4
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Personal accounts of a stressful event that describe our interpretation of what happened and why

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Narratives

5
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News coverage expands that experience; can create second-hand traumatization

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Trauma in the Media

6
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Severe stress caused by exposure to traumatic images or stories

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Vicarious Traumatization

7
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Emotional response to loss; painful complex feelings

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Grief

8
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Final phase of grieving

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Integration

9
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Emotion surrounding a loss that others do not support, share, or understand

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Disenfranchised grief

10
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The exclusive, active, and intentional social rejection of an individual by others

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Targeted rejection

11
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delayed stress reaction; an individual involuntarily re-experiences emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of last trauma

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PTSD

12
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Pressures in our social, cultural, and economic environment

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Societal Stressors

13
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A syndrome of emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, and cognitive weariness, often work related

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Burnout

14
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State of exhaustion experienced by medical and psychological professionals, as well as caregivers; leaves the individual feeling stressed, numb, or indifferent

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Compassion fatigue

15
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A psychological rating scale designed to measure stress levels by means of attaching numerical values to common life changes

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Social Readjustment Ratings Scale (SRRS)

16
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A sequence of internal processes that prepares the organism for struggle or escape

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Fight-or-Flight Response

17
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A temporary pattern of stressor-activated arousal with a distinct onset and limited duration

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Acute Stress

18
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What does the Tend-and-Befriend model propose?

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Females are biologically predisposed to respond to threat by nurturing and protecting offspring and seeking social support

19
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Impairment in the function of the immune system

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Immunisuppression

20
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Field that studies the influence of mental states on the immune system

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Psycho-neuroimmunology

21
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Hormone like chemicals that fight infection and facilitate communication between the brain and the immune system

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Cytokines

22
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DNA protein complexes that cap the ends of chromosomes and protect against damage to DNA

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Telomeres

23
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Behavior pattern characterized by intense, angry, competitive, or hostile responses to challenging situations

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Type A

24
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Behavior pattern characterized by a relaxed approach to life

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Type B

25
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Expectations about our ability to influence the outcomes in our life

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Locus of control

26
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Belief that one has the ability to influence their life outcomes

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Internals

27
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Belief that they can do little to influence their life outcomes

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Externals

28
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A pattern of failure to respond to threatening stimuli after an organism experiences a series of ineffective responses

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Learned Helplessness

29
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Attitude of resistance to stress based on a sense of three characteristics: control, commitment, and challenge

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Hardiness

30
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An attitude that interprets stressors as specific in their effects, external in origin, and temporary

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Optimism

31
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Capacity to adapt, achieve well-being, and cope with stress, in spite of serious threats to development

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Resilience