Stress Reactions
The physical and psychological response to internal and external stressors
What is Stress?
A new or creative way to think about a stressor to reduce its threat
What is reframing?
The country has the highest prevalence rate of mental disorders, According to the World Health Organization
What is The United States?
A disorder where there is marked, persistent, and excessive fear and avoidance of specific objects, activities, or situations
What is a phobic disorder?
The mental disorder in which repetitive, intrusive thoughts and ritualistic behaviors designed to fend off those thoughts interfere significantly with functioning
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
An emotional and physiological reaction to an emergency that increases our readiness for action
What is the fight-or-flight response?
Voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standard
What is self-regulation?
The conceptualization or model of psychological abnormalities as diseases, which, similar to biological diseases, have symptoms, causes, and possible cures
What is the Medical Model?
A feeling of being detached from one's body
What is depersonalization?
A disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of a trauma, avoidance of things that call the traumatic thing to mind
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
Sources of stress that occur continuously or repeatedly
What are chronic stressors?
A socially recognized set of rights and obligations linked with illness
What is a sick role?
Persistent disturbance or dysfunction in behavior, thoughts, or emotions that causes significant distress or impairment
What is a mental disorder?
The fear of public places that those with panic attacks often develop
What is agoraphobia?
A disorder where there is a pervasive pattern of disregard and violation of the rights of others
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion resulting from long-term involvement in an emotionally demanding situation and accompanied by lowered performance and motivation
What is burnout?
Physical activity that increases heart rate and oxygen intake for a sustained period of time
What is aerobic exercise?
The co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual.
Depression following pregnancy
What is postpartum depression?
A disorder characterized by a profound disruption of basic psychological processes, distorted perception of reality, blunt or inappropriate affect, and problems with thoughts and behavior
What is schizophrenia?
Alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage
What are the stages of general adaptation syndrome?
A condition of reduced muscle tension, cortical activity, heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure
What is the relaxation response?
A model that state mental disorders arise from a predisposition for a disease and a triggering event
What is the diathesis–stress model?
Depression periods that occur during different seasons
What is seasonal affective disorder?
Disorders with at least one bodily symptom present but display significant health-related anxiety, express disproportionate concerns about their symptoms, and devote excessive time and energy to their symptoms or health concerns
What are somatic symptom disorders?