Stress
Example of emotion focused coping
Deep Breathing, meditation or taking dr. prescribed medication
The theory that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness combined with stressful conditions that play a facilitating role.
Diathesis-Stress
Persistent symptoms of an excited sympathetic, nervous system: sweating, heart racing, dizziness, shaky accompanied by persistent negative feelings and fear…not triggered by specific events.
General Anxiety Disorder
Characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude (thoughts) toward a group and its members
Prejudice
Some people react to stress by tending to their own needs and/or the needs of others to seek a connection with others.
Tend and Befriend Theory
Examples of Neurodevelopmental disorders
ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), Social Communication Disorder, Specific Learning Disorder, Intellectual disability, Tourette syndrome
Persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation – key feature is the presence of a phobic stimulus
Specific Phobia
Development of severe anxiety, dissociative or other symptoms after a traumatic stressor; find it difficult to experience enjoyable activities (last less than a month)
Acute Stress Disorder
Diminished sense of responsibility, fosters arousal and anonymity
Deindividuation
Hopeless and passive resignation that humans and animals learn after repeated events.
Learned Helplessness
Neurocognitive Disorders
Symptoms related to complex attention, executive function, learning, memory, language, perceptual-motor, and social cognition.
Unpredictable, minutes long intense anxiety attack, as if you're going to be killed any second, but no specific, real threat is apparent.
Panic Disorder
Prime aid for those with PTSD
Therapy dogs
Tendency for people to adopt more extreme views on a topic after a group discussion of like-minded people
Group Polarization
Stress or trauma that can affect a person over their lifespan
Adverse Childhood Experience
Another term for Major Neurocognitive Disorder
Dementia
Individuals may fail to speak because of fear of negative evaluation
Selective Mutism
Infant or young child doesn’t establish attachments with parents or caregivers
Reactive Attachment Disorder
5 factors in The Big Five personality Model (Costa and McCrae)
Conscientious, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion
Distress or bad stress
Critique of DSM-5
Too detailed and extensive. Some view DSM diagnoses as arbitrary labels that create preconceptions which bias perceptions of the labeled person’s past and present behavior.
The individual fears or avoids situations because the thought of escape might be difficult or help may not be available
Agoraphobia
Pattern of behavior in which a child approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults; overly familiar verbal or physical behavior; will go with an unfamiliar adult with no hesitation; diminished or absent checking back with adult caregiver
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
How much energy we use to maintain basic functions at rest
Basal Metabolic Rate