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Overview Health, Stress, and Coping Psychological Disorders Therapies

Health Psychology and Behavioral Risk Factors • Health Psychology: Uses behavioral principles to prevent illness and promote health • Behavioral Medicine: Applies psychology to manage medical problems • Lifestyle Diseases: Diseases related to health-damaging personal habits • Behavioral Risk Factors: Behaviors that increase the chances of disease, injury, or premature death

Ways to Promote Health • Refusal Skills Training: Program that teaches young people how to resist pressures to begin smoking • Life Skills Training: Teaches stress reduction, self-protection, decision making, self-control, and social skills • Wellness: Positive state of good health and well-being; more than the absence of disease

Stress • Mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment – Includes marital and financial problems – Eustress: Good stress (e.g., travel, dating) • Stress Reaction: Physical response to stress; Autonomic Nervous System is aroused

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) • Series of bodily reactions to prolonged stress; occurs in three stages • Stage of Resistance • Body adjusts to stress but at a high physical cost; resistance to other stressors is lowered • Alarm Reaction • Body resources are mobilized to cope with added stress • Stage of Exhaustion • Body’s resources are drained and stress hormones are depleted, possibly resulting in: – Psychosomatic disease – Loss of health – Complete collapse

Immunity • Immune System: Mobilizes bodily defenses like white blood cells against invading microbes and other diseases • Psychoneuroimmunology: Study of connections among behavior, stress, disease, and immune system

Stressor • Condition or event that challenges or threatens the person • Pressure: When a person must meet urgent external demands or expectations

Burnout • Job-related condition (usually in helping professions) of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion. Has three aspects: – Emotional Exhaustion: Feel “used up” and “empty” – Cynicism or detachment from others – Feeling of reduced personal accomplishment

Appraising Stressors • Primary Appraisal: Deciding if a situation is relevant or irrelevant, positive or threatening • Secondary Appraisal: Deciding how to cope with a threat or challenge • Perceived lack of control is just as threatening as an actual lack of control

Threats/Stress • Emotion-Focused Coping: Trying to control one’s emotional reactions to the stressful situation • Problem-Focused Coping: Managing or remedying the distressing situation

Frustration • Negative emotional state that occurs when one is prevented from reaching desired goals – External Frustration: Based on external conditions that impede progress toward a goal – Personal Frustration: Caused by personal characteristics that impede progress toward a goal

Reactions to Frustration • Aggression: Any response made with the intention of doing harm • Displaced Aggression: Redirecting aggression to a target other than the source of one’s frustration • Scapegoating: Blaming a person or group for conditions they did not create; the scapegoat is a habitual target of displaced aggression • Escape: May mean actually leaving a source of frustration (dropping out of school) or psychologically escaping (apathy)

Conflicts • A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between contradictory needs, desires, motives, or demands

Approach-Approach Conflicts • Choosing between two desirable, or positive, alternatives

Avoidance-Avoidance Conflicts • Being forced to choose between two negative or undesirable alternatives (e.g., choosing between going to the doctor or contracting cancer) – NOT choosing may be impossible or undesirable

Approach-Avoidance Conflicts • Being attracted (drawn to) and repelled by the same goal or activity; attraction keeps person in the situation, but negative aspects can cause distress – Ambivalence: Mixed positive and negative feelings; central characteristic of approachavoidance conflicts

Multiple Conflicts • Double Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: Each of two alternatives has both positive and negative qualities • Vacillation: When one is attracted to both choices; seeing the positives and negatives of both choices and going “back and forth” before deciding, if deciding at all! • Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflicts: When several alternatives have positive and negative features

Anxiety • Feelings of tension, uneasiness, apprehension, worry, and vulnerability – We are motivated to avoid experiencing anxiety

Freudian Defense Mechanisms • Defense Mechanisms: Habitual and unconscious (in most cases) psychological processes designed to reduce anxiety • Work by avoiding, denying, or distorting sources of threat or anxiety • If used short term, can help us get through everyday situations • If used long term, we may end up not living in reality • Protect idealized self-image so we can live with ourselves

Freudian Defense Mechanisms: • Denial: Most primitive; denying reality; usually occurs with death and illness • Repression: When painful memories, anxieties, and so on are held out of our awareness • Reaction Formation: Impulses are repressed and the opposite behavior is exaggerated • Projection: When one’s own feelings, shortcomings, or unacceptable traits and impulses are seen in others; exaggerating negative traits in others lowers anxiety • Rationalization: Justifying personal actions by giving “rational” but false reasons for them

Depression • State of feeling despondent defined by feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness – One of the most common mental problems in the world – Some symptoms: Loss of appetite or sex drive, decreased activity, sleeping too much…also other less known symptoms.

How to Recognize Depression (Beck) • You have a consistently negative opinion of yourself • You engage in frequent self-criticism and self-blame • You place negative interpretations on events that usually would not bother you • The future looks grim • You can’t handle your responsibilities and feel overwhelmed • Anxiety, self-medicating, also can indicate

Hassle • Any distressing day-to-day annoyance; a.k.a. microstressor

Acculturative Stress • Stress caused by many changes and adaptations required when one moves to a foreign culture

Psychosomatic Disorders • Psychosomatic Disorders: Psychological factors contribute to actual bodily damage or to damaging changes in bodily functioning • Hypochondriacs: Complain about diseases that appear to be imaginary – Certain kinds of ulcers are not psychosomatic – Most common complaints: respiratory and gastrointestinal

Hardy Personality • Personality type associated with superior stress resistance • Sense of personal commitment to self and family • Feel they have control over their lives • See life as a series of challenges, not threats

Stress Management

• Use of behavioral strategies to reduce stress and improve coping skills • Progressive Relaxation: Produces deep relaxation throughout the body by tightening all muscles in an area and then relaxing them • Guided Imagery: Visualizing images that are calming, relaxing, or beneficial • Stress Inoculation: Using positive coping statements internally to control fear and anxiety; designed to combat: – Negative Self-Statements: Self-critical thoughts that increase anxiety and lower performance • Coping Statements: Reassuring, selfenhancing statements that are used to stop negative self-statements

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