Stress and the Stress Response
Automatic physiological response that prepares the body for a situation where a perceived threat must be escaped or confronted
What is Fight or Flight Response?
Body’s immediate stress reaction that increases heart rate, breathing, and available energy
The strategies people use to manage challenging situations
What is Coping?
Process of managing stressful demands throught both behavioral and cognitive means
Widely used therapy focusing on adjusting maladaptive thoughts and behaviors
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Therapy that helps people identify and modify negative thinking patterns and behaviors
Disorder characterized by persistent patterns of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
Neurodevelopmntal disorder involving difficulties maintaining focus and managing impulses
Negative attitudes diredcted towards people with mental illness
What are Stigmas?
Prejudice associatied with mental illness
A hormone released by the adrenal glands during stress that helps regulate energy and the body’s stress response
What is Cortisol?
Stress hormone that helps the body manage stress by increasing glucose levels and limiting most nonessential bodily functions
Coping strategy meant to reduce emotional distress instead of confronting the stressor
What is Emotion Focused Coping?
Managing emotions in reactions to stress
Medications prescribed to reduce symptoms of anxiety and panic
What is Antianxiety Medication?
Drugs used to decrease anxiety and promote relaxation
Anxiety disorder involving uncontrollable worry about daily events
What is Generalizad Anxiety Disorder(GAD): Characterized by chronic, excessive anxiety that is hard to control?
Movement shifted individuals with mental illness from psych hospitals to community based settings
What is Deinstitutionalization?
Reduced reliance on long term psychiatric hospitalization
Three stage model of stress that travels through alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
Model showing body’s long term response to prolonged stress
Coping strategy involving direct action towards the cause of stress in order to reduce it
What is Problem-Focused Coping?
Practically solving the problems that are causing stress
Mood stabilizer commonly used to treat bipolar disorder
What is Lithium?
Medication that helps manage extreme mood swings
Eating disorder involving a severe fear of weaight gain, leading to intense food restriction
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Eating disorder involving distorted body image and dangerously low body weight
Manual published by the American Psychiatric Association used to classify and diagnose mental disorders
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual(DSM)?
Primary diagnostive guide used by mental health professionals in the U.S.
Traumatic events experienced during childhood that are linked to increased health risks, both physical and mental, later in life
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences(ACEs)?
Stressful or traumatic childhood experiences that leave lasting effects on well-being
Stress response where people take care of others and seek social connection when stressed
What is Tend-and-Befriend?
Stress response when individuals cultivate social connections in order to reduce stress
Involuntary movement disorder that can result from long term use of certain antipsychotic medications
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Condition involving uncontrollable, repetitive movements
Personality disorder characterized by excessive emotionaliy and attention seeking behaviors
What is Histronic Personality Disorder?
Disorder involving a need for attention, causing dramatic displays of emotional attention
System maintained by the world health organization used to classify diseases and disorders actoss the world
What is International Classification of Diseases?
Global system used to categorize diseases and disorders
Chronic stress contributes to this condition, which involves a constant elevation in blood pressure
What is Hypertension?
Abnormally high blood pressure that increases risks of heart disease and stroke
Stress management technique where electronic monitoring is used to help people learn more about and learn to control their physiological functions
What is Biofeedback?
Method where individuals are taught how to regulate bodily processes such as heart rate and muscle tension
Therapeutic technique employed by freud where patients state thoughts, memories, or feelings without filtering
What is Free Association?
Psychoanalytic technique meant to discover unconscious thoughts and conflicts
Rare condition involving sudden wandering paired with loss of memory about one’s identity
What is Dissociative Fugue?
Dissociative disorder involving amnesia and wandering from home
Occurence of 2+ disorders in the same person at the same time
What is Cormorbidity?
Coexistence of multiple medical or psychological disorders in one person