week 4

Question 1

religion and spirituality

Answer 1

The human experience of spirituality involves experiences of self-transcendence and connection with something larger than oneself, which may or may not be religious in nature

Question 2

Implications of stress responses for psychopathology

Answer 2

chronic and repeated stress as well as maladaptive responses to stress may place individuals at elevated risk for multiple mental disorders

Question 3

Stress-vulnerability view of mental disorders

Answer 3

Diathesis stress model posits that psychological disorders result from an interaction between inherited vulnerability (diathesis) and environmental stressors (life events).

Question 4

Spirituality and stress

Answer 4

spirituality: self-transcendence and connection with something higher. Stress: disruptions to individual’s psychological homeostatic processes
Spirituality has been linked to resilience against stress.

Question 5

neuroplasticity

Answer 5

Continuous stimulation of corticostriatal-limbic circuitry by chronic or over- whelming stress may lead to neuroplasticity that underlies maladaptive patterns in the brain and dysregulation of neural circuitry”

MRI studies demonstrate associations between corticostriatal-limbic circuitry and stress, suggestive of its detrimental effects in the brain.