Introduction to HSS 4543 5543

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Introduction to HSS 4543 / 5543

• Managing Stress
• Principles and Strategies for Health and Wellbeing

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Using a worldview and holistic approach...
Intellectual Wellbeing
Physical Wellbeing
Spiritual Wellbeing
Emotional Wellbeing
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--Nature of Course--

• Need for taking personal responsibility (e.g.,
  practice)
• Opportunity for personal assessment
• Class activities that complement text
• Varied curricular approach
• Personal vs. professional perspective

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--Nature of Instructor--
QR (Quieting Reflex) an example of a pause
technique
React-)
Activating Event
Pause
or
Dont React -)
React!!
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--Nature of Classmates--

• How do you normally handle stress?
• How do you relax?
• How do you see yourself 10 years from now?
• Have you had a particularly stressful event occur
  in your life? If so, describe it.

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The previous exercise relates to this course in
the following ways...

• techniques that work!
• self evaluation / assessment
• use of imagery
• risk taking

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Stress Audit Questionnaire (SAQ)

• Sources of stress
• Symptoms of stress
• physiological
• psychological
• Coping resources

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Symptoms provide a stress signature

• Rigid responders similar responses over time
• Random responders different system responses
  over time (often unpredictable)
• General responders all system responses rise and
  fall with level of sources

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Definitions of Stress

• the confusion that is created when ones mind
  attempts to override the bodys more basic desire
  to choke someone who desperately needs to be
  choked. (anonymous)

• the nonspecific response of the body to any
  demand placed upon it to adapt, whether that
  demand is related to positive or negative
  consequences. (Hans Selye)

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Types of Stress

• Eutress
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• Neustress
• Distress

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Stressors--the sources of stress

• Physical / Bioecological
• Cognitive / Psycho-intrapersonal
• Psychosocial
• Rapid Onset

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Fight-or-Flight Response (Walter Cannon)

• Cardiovascular Changes
• ? heart rate, blood pressure, stroke volume
• ? blood coagulation, clotting
• vasoconstriction (skin, GI tract)
• vasodilation (skeletomuscular system)
• Respiratory Changes
• ? rate, depth, uptake of oxygen
• Gastrointestinal Changes
• ? stomach movement, peristalsis, blood flow
• ? glucose and free fatty acids

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Fight-or-Flight Response (Walter Cannon)

• Other Changes
• Pupil Dilation
• Piloerection
• ? perspiration

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The Stress Response(fight-or-flight)

• Arousal happens as a result of all stressors
  (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual).
• Arousal happens whether or not the threat is real
  (e.g., car accident) or perceived (e.g., a noise
  at night).
• Arousal happens in proportion to the perceived
  danger.

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General Adaptation Syndrome - (Hans Selye)

• Alarm Reaction fight-or-flight response
• Resistance homeostasis
• Exhaustion malfunction of body part (possibly
  terminal)

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General Adaptation Syndrome(G.A.S.)
stressor
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The Yerkes-Dodson Curve
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The nature of stress is...

• Quantitative stress levels are produced by
  stressors that lead to distress or eustress
  (Cannon, Selye)

• Qualitative stress levels rely on attitudes
  about stressors and, therefore, cognitive /
  emotional appraisal (Richard Lazarus)

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--Stress Cycle--
Self Talk
Poor Performance
Physiological and Mental / Emotional Stress
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The repetition of this cycle often results in a
bad day!
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