L3 Flashcards
(42 cards)
The __________ has distinguished different types of stress and
the human response to it.
American Institute of Stress
defined stress as the body’s nonspecific response to any demand, whether it is caused by or results in pleasant or unpleasant stimuli.
Hans Selye
is stress in daily life that has positive connotations such as marriage,
promotion, baby, winning money, new friends and graduation.
Eustress
is stress in daily life that has negative connotations such as divorce,
punishment, injury, negative feelings, financial problems and work difficulties.
Distress
The general stress syndrome has three components:
The Alarm Stage
The Stage of Resistance
The Exhaustion Stage
represents a mobilization of the body’s defensive forces. The body is
preparing for the “fight or flight” syndrome. This
The Alarm Stage
the body becomes adaptive to the challenge and even beginscto resist it.
The Stage of Resistance
the body dies because it has used up its resources of
adaptation energy.
The Exhaustion Stage
are maladies caused principally by errors in the body’s general
adaptation process. They will not occur when all the body’s regulatory processes are properly
checked and balanced.
Stress Diseases
is unpleasant, even when it is transient. A stressful situation whether
something environmental, such as looming work deadline or psychological, such as persistent
worry about losing a job, can trigger a cascade of stress hormones that produce
well-orchestrated physiological changes.
Chronic Stress
This combination of reaction is also known as the _____ response because it
evolved as a survival mechanism, enabling people and other mammals to react quickly to
life-threatening situations.
Fight or Flight Response
The stress response begins in the _____.
Brain
an area of the
brain that contributes to emotional processing.
Amygdala
- is involved in different daily activities like eating or drinking, in the control of the body’s temperature and energy maintenance and in the of memorizing and in stress control.
Hypothalamus
ability to feel certain emotions and to perceive them in other people. This includes
fear and the many changes that it causes in the body.
Amygdala
A positive way to counter stress
Self-care Therapy
This person provided steps for self-care
Nancy Apperson
is another way to counter stress. It entails being warm and
understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail or feel inadequate, rather than flagellating
ourselves with self-criticism.
Self-compassion
helps to mindfully open to the sting of emotional pain.
First Phrase (this is the moment of suffering)
reminds us that suffering unites all living beings and reduces the tendency to feel ashamed and isolated
when things go wrong in our lives.
Second Phrase (suffering is part of my life)
begins the process of responding with
self-kindness rather than self-criticism.
Third Phrase (may I be kind to myself)
reinforces the idea that you both need
and deserve compassion in difficult moments.
Final Phrase (may I give myself the compassion I need)
Less fcused on focused on evaluating themselves, feeling
superior to others, worrying about whether or not others are evaluating them, defending their
viewpoints, or angrily reacting against those who disagree with them.
Self-compassion
is thought to
be an evaluation of superiority/inferiority that helps to establish social rank stability and is related to alerting, energizing impulses and dopamine activation.
Self-esteem
