Chris Nate Cortney Stacey

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2. Are you Winning at life?

3. Stress and Coping Psychology 1100 Stacey , Cortney, Nate, Chris

4. Stress is the body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response. • Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, nervous, or anxious. • Stress is caused by an existing stress-causing factor or "stressor." What is stress?

5. Stressor: • Stressors Major: • Stressors Minor: (pg 485) Stressors

6. Stressor: any situation, event, experience, or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed • Stressors Major: • Stressors Minor: (pg 485) Stressors

7. Stressor: any situation, event, experience, or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed • Stressors Major: Serious illness, unexpected job loss • Stressors Minor: (pg 485) Stressors

8. Stressor: any situation, event, experience, or other stimulus that causes a person to feel stressed • Stressors Major: Serious illness, unexpected job loss • Stressors Minor: ongoing hassles such as daily commute, tests, homework, missing the bus (pg 485) Stressors

9. Stress and Health: Repeated stress may causephysical damage • Hormonal reactions may eventually harm tissues and organs, accelerating disease processes (pg 486) Stress and Health

10. Stress and Health: • Stressors make the immune system less efficient (pg 486) Stress and Health

11. Stress and Health: • Stressors make the immune system less efficient • Stressors weaken the working memory (pg 486) Stress and Health

12. Stress and Health: • Stressors make the immune system less efficient • Stressors weaken the working memory • Stressors fray the temper and attitude (pg 486) Stress and Health

13. Stress and Health

14. Emotional Signs Early Warning Signsof Stress

15. Emotional Signs • Apathy Early Warning Signsof Stress

16. Emotional Signs • Apathy • Anxiety Early Warning Signsof Stress

17. Emotional Signs • Apathy • Anxiety • Irritability Early Warning Signsof Stress

18. Emotional Signs • Apathy • Anxiety • Irritability • Mental fatigue Early Warning Signsof Stress

19. Emotional Signs • Apathy • Anxiety • Irritability • Mental fatigue • Overcompensation or denial grandiosity Early Warning Signsof Stress

21. Behavioral Signs Early Warning Signsof Stress

22. Behavioral Signs • Avoiding things Early Warning Signsof Stress

23. Behavioral Signs • Avoiding things • Doing things to extremes Early Warning Signsof Stress

24. Behavioral Signs • Avoiding things • Doing things to extremes • Administrative problems Early Warning Signsof Stress

25. Behavioral Signs • Avoiding things • Doing things to extremes • Administrative problems • Legal problems Early Warning Signsof Stress

27. Physical Signs Early Warning Signsof Stress

28. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness Early Warning Signsof Stress

29. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness • Frequent illness Early Warning Signsof Stress

30. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness • Frequent illness • Physical exhaustion Early Warning Signsof Stress

31. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness • Frequent illness • Physical exhaustion • Reliance of self medication Early Warning Signsof Stress

32. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness • Frequent illness • Physical exhaustion • Reliance of self medication • Muscle tension Early Warning Signsof Stress

33. Physical Signs • Excessive worrying about, or denial of illness • Frequent illness • Physical exhaustion • Reliance of self medication • Muscle tension • Ailments Early Warning Signsof Stress

35. Allostatic Load: term used for the total burden on a person’s body from all stressors experienced, both: • Allostastis: • Hypothalmus: Stressors

36. Allostatic Load: term used for the total burden on a person’s body from all stressors experienced, both: physical (such as obesity) psychological (such as divorce) • Allostastis: • Hypothalmus: Stressors

37. Allostatic Load: term used for the total burden on a person’s body from all stressors experienced, both: physical (such as obesity) psychological (such as divorce) • Allostastis:is the ability to maintain stability through change; connected to homeostasis. • Hypothalmus: Stressors

38. Allostatic Load: term used for the total burden on a person’s body from all stressors experienced, both: physical (such as obesity) psychological (such as divorce) • Allostastis:is the ability to maintain stability through change; connected to homeostasis. • Hypothalmus: reacts to stressors by triggering the release of hormones that protect the body by helping it to adapt, and overcome the problem Stressors

39. Four “A’s” Stress Management

40. Four “A’s” • Avoid Stress Management

41. Four “A’s” • Avoid • Alter Stress Management

42. Four “A’s” • Avoid • Alter • Adapt Stress Management

43. Four “A’s” • Avoid • Alter • Adapt • Accept Stress Management

44. Problem Focused coping (men) VS Emotion Focused coping (Women) Gender affects response

45. Men Men are inclined to be problem-focused, reacting in a flight or fight manner. Gender Differences

46. Men Men are inclined to be problem-focused, reacting in a flight or fight manner. • Faster heart rate, increased adrenaline prepares them for attack or escape Gender Differences

47. Men Men are inclined to be problem-focused, reacting in a flight or fight manner. • Faster heart rate, increased adrenaline prepares them for attack or escape • Testosterone level rises when they attack a problem and decreases when they fail Gender Differences

48. Women Women are more emotion-focused, likely to tend and befriend. Gender Differences

49. Women Women are more emotion-focused, likely to tend and befriend. • Seek the company of other people when they are under pressure Gender Differences

50. Women Women are more emotion-focused, likely to tend and befriend. • Seek the company of other people when they are under pressure • Produce Oxytocin, a hormone that leads them to see confidential and caring relationships Gender Differences