Stress, Health & Adjustment Examine the relationship between

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Stress, Health Adjustment

• Examine the relationship between psychological
  factors and physical illness.
• Health Psychology
• Stress
• Health Problems
• Coping with Stress

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Stress, Health Adjustment

• If you havent got your health, you havent got
  anything.
• Can you name the Movie?
• Internet Listening Viewing
• Radio Lab (www.wnyc.org)
• Season One Stress (excellent!)
• Learning Objectives
• General information about stress
• Role of Irrational Beliefs
• Effects of Stress on the body

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Types of Stress

• Health Psychology What Health Psychologists
  study.
• Stress, Eustress
• Sources of Stress
• Daily Hassles (negative)
• Uplifts (pleasant)
• Life Changes (Holmes Rahe)
• Stress Diversity Acculturative Stress

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Stress Health

• Conflict feelings produced by being in conflict.
• Being torn in different directions by opposing
  motives.
• Four Types Of Conflict
• Approach - Approach resolved by making a decision
• Avoidance - Avoidance more stressful
• Approach - Avoidance a matter of perspective
• Multiple Approach - Avoidance

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Irrational Beliefs Albert Ellis

• Thinking about the event, and the event itself.
• Doorway to distress (perfectionism)
• The A-B-C Model
• A Activating event (losing a job)
• B Beliefs (job as self-identity)
• Catastrophize
• C Consequence (misery)

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Stress Health

• Type A Personality!!!!
• Behaviors time urgency, competitiveness, and
  hostility.
• Characteristics
• Type B Personality
• Behaviors focus on quality of life, less
  ambitious, less impatient, tend to pace
  themselves.

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The Type A Personality!!!!

• Characteristics
• Highly driven, impatient, aggressive!!!
• Always under pressure.
• Demand continual self improvement!!!!
• Irrational Beliefs-always perfectly competent!!!!

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Psychological Moderators

• Self-efficacy expectations.
• Psychological hardiness.
• Sense of humor.
• Predictability / control.
• Social support.

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Stress the Body

• General Adaptation Syndrome (Hans Selye)
• Stage 1 Alarm Reaction (Sympathetic Nervous
  System)
• Stage 2 Resistance (adaptation)
• Stage 3 Exhaustion (weakened resistance)

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Stress Immune System

• Stress suppresses immune system.
• Leukocytes inflammation
• Stress stimulates steroids,
• Steroids suppress immune system,
• Suppression interferes with antibodies,
• Increases vulnerability to illness.

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Stress Health

• Mutlifactorial approach to health.
• Theres no single, simple answer.
• Ethnicity health
• Gender health
• Health Socioeconomic status

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Health Problems

• Headaches
• Tension, Migraines
• Coronary heart disease
• The 1 killer
• Risk factors
• Cancer
• Risk factors

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Coping With Stress

• Controlling Irrational Thoughts
• 4 Steps
• Develop Awareness of thoughts
• Evaluate accuracy of thoughts
• Prepare incompatible thoughts
• Reward yourself.