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| any distrubance in a person normal balanced state |
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| type of stress that can threaten health |
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| stress associated with life stages |
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| random unpredicatble stress |
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| stress that arises from life events |
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| stress that affects body: structure and function |
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alter the stressor
adapt to the stressor
avoid the stressor |
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| three general approaches for coping: |
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| healthy choices, direcly reduce negative affects of stress |
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| adaptive styles of coping include |
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| this is an unhealthy style of coping and is a temporary fix |
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| a possible desired outcome of stress, involves adjusting to the stressor |
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| normal growth and development, effective responses to life's challenge |
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| intensity of the stressor, effectiveness of coping skills, personal factors |
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| ability to adapt depends on three things: |
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| is understanding of stressor realistic? how successful have previous adaptation attempts been? |
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| what are personal factors that influence adaptation? |
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| number of illnesses and the chronicity of illnesses may affects the ability to adapt to new stressors |
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| what about health status can affect a persons ability to adapt? |
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| stronger support = better adaptation |
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| how does a support system influence adaptation? |
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| age, developmental level, life experiences |
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| what are three personal factors that affect adaptation? |
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| what does the endocrine system put out in response to stress? |
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| the sympathetic system puts out what hormones in response to stress? |
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| vasoconstriction, elevated BP |
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| whe happens to the cardiovascular sys. during stress? |
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| how does the respiratory sys respond to stress? |
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| inc. availability of glucose |
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| waht is the metabolic response to stress? |
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| what is the urinary response to stress? |
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| what is the GI response to stress? |
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| inc. blood flow to muscles |
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| what is the musculoskeletal response to stress? |
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| maintenance and homeostasis |
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| what is the goal of the resistance stage of GAS? |
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| in this stage, vital signs will return to normal |
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| in this stage, adaptive mechanisms have become ineffective and nonexistent |
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| dec. BP, elevated pulse and respiration |
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| what are the physiological signs of the exhaustion stage? |
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| local adaptation syndrome |
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| response to stress involving specific body parts, tissue, or organ |
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| local adaptation syndrome |
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| short term attempt to restore homeostasis |
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| reflex pain response, inflammatory response |
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| examples of local adaptation syndrome? |
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| anxiety and fear, ego defense mechanism, anger, depression |
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| psychological responses to stress include: |
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| continual stress, repeated CNS stimulation, elevation of certain hormones, results in long-term changes in body systems |
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| what are some stress induced organic responses as a result of failed adaptation? |
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| hypochondriasis, somatization (tired), somatoform pain disorder (ppl develop pain from chronic stress), malingering (everything hangs on) |
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| what are some somatoform disorders as a result of failed adaptation to stress? |
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| what are some stress induced psychological responses? |
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| adequate nutrition, help client est. a routine that includes reg. ecercise, teach client imp of getting 7-8 hrs of sleep per day |
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| what are some health promotion activities? |
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| in this disorder, anxiety and emotional turmoil are expressed in physical symtioms, unable to locate pain, changes location |
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| emtional pain that manifests physically, pain is the patients main conern, able to locate pain and location does not change |
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| conscious effort to escape unpleasant situations, patient pretends to have syptioms |
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| in response to the event and the anxiety, person uses her usual coping strategies |
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| if the usual strategies are not effective, anxiety and confusion increase, person may have trouble organizing her personal life |
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| person tries new ways of coping, rescognized problem but denies that it is out of control, usually uses withdrawal, rationalization, and projection |
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| person redfines the threat and perceives crisis in a realistic way, begins to think rationally, regains more self esteem and is able to socialize again |
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| person may have developed better ways of coping with stress, or may be critical, hostile and depressed, may use maladaptive ways to deal with what happened |
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