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Chapter 14
Stress and health
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Behavioral medicine
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An interdisciplinary field that integrates
behavioral and medical knowledge and
applies that knowledge to help tendencies.
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Health psychology
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A subfield of psychology that provide
psychologies contribution to behavioral
medicine.
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Stress
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The process by which we perceive respond to
certain events, called stressors, that we
appraise as threatening more challenging.
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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
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Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive
response to stress in three stages.
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
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Coronary heart disease
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The clogging of the vessels that mirrors the
heart muscle; the leading cause of death in
many developed nations.
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Type A
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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for
competitive, hard driving, impatient, for relief
aggressive, and anger prone people
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Type B
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Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relax people.
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Psychophysiological illness
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Literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress
related physical illness, such as hypertension
and some headaches.
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Lymphocytes
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The two types of white blood cells that are
part of the body’s immune system.
B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow
release antibodies to fight bacterial
infections;T-lymphocytes form in the thymus
another emphatic tissue and attack cancer
cells, virus, and foreign substances.
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Coping
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Alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive,
or behavioral methods.
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Problem focused coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress directly-by
changing the stressor or the way we interact
with that stressor.
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Emotion focused coping
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Attempting to alleviate stress by affording or
ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional
needs related to one’s stress reaction.
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Aerobic exercise
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Sustained exercise that increases heart and
lung fitness; they also alleviate depression and
anxiety.
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Biofeedback
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A system for electronic league recording,
amplifying, feeding back information
regarding a subtle psychological state, such as
blood pressure or muscle tension. Each
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Complementary and alternative
medicine
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Unproven health care treatments not taught
widely in medical schools, values and
hospitals, not usually reimbursed by insurance
companies.
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