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Emotions, Stress, and Health Chapter 11

Emotions, Stress, and Health Chapter 11. Selye’s stress response studies Introduce Selye's work on stress and coping 2 Video Clips . Stress and Health. Psychological states cause physical illness. Stress is any circumstance (real or perceived) that threatens a person’s well-being.

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Emotions, Stress, and Health Chapter 11

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  1. Emotions, Stress, and HealthChapter 11 Selye’s stress response studies Introduce Selye's work on stress and coping 2 Video Clips

  2. Stress and Health Psychological states cause physical illness. Stress is any circumstance (real or perceived) that threatens a person’s well-being. Lee Stone/ Corbis When we feel severe stress, our ability to cope with it is impaired.

  3. Stress and Health Stress can be adaptive. In a fearful or stress- causing situation, we can run away and save our lives. Stress can be maladaptive. If it is prolonged (chronic stress), it increases our risk of illness and health problems.

  4. Stress and Stressors Stress is a slippery concept. At times it is the stimulus (missing an appointment) and at other times it is a response (sweating while taking a test).

  5. Stress and Stressors Stress is not merely a stimulus or a response. It is a process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges. Bob Daemmrich/ The Image Works When short-lived or taken as a challenge, stressors may have positive effects. However, if stress is threatening or prolonged, it can be harmful.

  6. The Stress Response System Cannon proposed that the stress response (fast) was a fight-or-flight response marked by the outpouring of epinephrine and norepinephrine from the inner adrenal glands, increasing heart and respiration rates, mobilizing sugar and fat, and dulling pain.

  7. General Adaptation Syndrome According to Selye, a stress response to any kind of stimulation is similar. The stressed individual goes through three phases. EPA/ Yuri Kochetkov/ Landov

  8. Stress & Susceptibility to Disease A psychophysiological illness is any stress-related physical illness such as hypertension and some headaches. Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is a developing field in which the health effects of psychological, neural, and endocrine processes on the immune system are studied.

  9. Health-Related Consequences Stress can have a variety of health-related consequences. Kathleen Finlay/ Masterfile

  10. Stress on the Job and Selye’s Stress Response Studies – Video clip 38 • Video clip 38 is a look at the work of air traffic controllers, revealing the high levels of stress and anxiety they experience. • The resulting changes in brain activity and the physiological and behavioral responses can, over time, adversely affect health.

  11. Stress on the Job and Selye’s Stress Response Studies – Video clip 39 • In video 39, Hans Selye describes his early conclusions about the syndrome of symptoms resulting from stress and reflects on the positive value of stress and his attitude toward stress in his own life.

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