Course Vision

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Course Vision Mission

• Vision
• Your final exams at the end of this quarter will
  have your best ever outcomes
• Mission
• Develop and use your most effective coping and
  relaxation strategies

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Application Assignment
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Quiz __First real quiz is on Monday - bring
3x5 card each day

• Question 1
• Question 2

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Chapter 1The Nature of Stress

• I cannot and should not be cured of by stress,
  but merely taught to enjoy it.
• - Hans Selye

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• Hans Selye argued that stress is a way of life
• However, only recently has the term stress become
  a common word in our everyday language.
• Do you believe this is true?
• Why?

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Factors that have drawn attention to stress in
modern times

• research has shown a relationship between
  lifestyle and stress-related diseases
• research has indicated that perhaps 70 to 80
  percent of all diseases and illness are
  stress-related

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Factors that have drawn attention to stress in
modern times

• rapid change is very much a part of modern
  society
• the number of stressors in our lives is
  increasing
• leisure time is decreasing and
• others?

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1. In your own words, define the term stress.
2. From your own observations and analysis,
explain why you believe there is more or less
stress present in todays society.
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More stressed or less stress?

• Before the 19th century
• parents witnessed the likelihood that only about
  3 out of 10 newborn infants lived beyond the age
  of 25.
• Today
• fewer than 1 in 20 children die before they reach
  adulthood.
• However, the rates of suicide and homicides for
  youths have dramatically increased.
• Which generation experienced more stress?

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Definitions of stress

• Stress is both
• an intricate phenomenon and
• a culturally defined concept based on various
  perspectives of the human condition.
• As a result, there exists many different
  interpretations of stress.

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Five Popular Views of Stress

• Eastern philosophies have viewed stress as an
  absence of inner peace.
  
• Western culture has more recently viewed stress
  as a loss of control.

Stress is...
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Richard Lazarus Views of Stress

• Stress is a state of anxiety produced when events
  and responsibilities exceed ones coping
  abilities.

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Hans Selyes Views of Stress

• Stress is the nonspecific response of the body to
  any demand placed upon it to adapt,
• whether that demand produces pleasure or pain.

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Holistic Medicine View of Stress

• Stress is the inability to cope with a perceived
  or real (or imagined) threat to ones
• mental
• physical
• emotional, and
• spiritual well-being
• which results in a series of physiological
  responses and adaptations.

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Application AssignmentFirst real quiz is on
Monday - bring 3x5 card each day

• Question 1

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Quiz __First real quiz is on Monday - bring
3x5 card each day

• Question 1
• Question 2

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Are We Helping You?
1 not capable competent 5
very capable competent
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How are Students Doing?Self rating of nerves,
spirits, life outlook.
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Ability to Manage Stress Life Outlook
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How are Students Doing?
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Ability to Manage Stress Losses
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The Stress Response(fight or flight response)

• Introduced by Walter Cannon
• in 1914.
• A survival instinct to fight or run.
• Meant for physical stressors.

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The Stress Response(fight or flight response)

• Arousal also happens for non-physical stressors
  (mental, emotional, spiritual).
• No matter if the threat is real (car accident) or
  perceived (a noise at night), the stress response
  occurs.
• The stress response occurs in proportion to the
  perceived danger.

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Stress Response Stages

• Stimuli received by the brain through one or more
  of five senses
• Brain deciphers stimuli
• either a threat or as a non-threat
• Body stays aroused until threat is over
• Body returns to homeostasis once the threat is
  gone

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Symptoms of fight or flight

• increased heart rate
• increased blood rate
• increased ventilation
• vasodilatation of arteries to bodys periphery
  (arm and legs)
• increased serum glucose levels

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Symptoms of fight of flight

• increased free fatty acid mobilization
• increased blood coagulation and decreased
  clotting
• increased muscular strength
• decreased gastric movement
• increased perspiration to cool body core
  temperature

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Three types of stress

• Eustress
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• Neustress
• Distress

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Distress Negative Stress

• Crushes
• Oppresses
• Unusual events carried beyond rational limits

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Eustress Positive Stress

• Motivates
• Excites
• Energizes

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The Yerkes-Dodson Curve
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Three types of stressors

• Bioecological
• Psychointropersonal
• 
  Social

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General Adaptation Syndrome

• Stage 1
• Alarm Reaction
• Stage 2
• Resistance
• Stage 3
• Exhaustion

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General Adaptation Syndrome

• Alarm Stage
• anxiety or fear
• sorrow or depression
• shock or confusion
• Self-correcting

Three Stages
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General Adaptation Syndrome

• Resistance Stage
• aggression
• regression
• repression
• withdrawal
• fixation

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General Adaptation Syndrome

• Exhaustion Stage
• physiological
• headaches, colds flu
• psychological
• severe depression
• interpersonal
• end of relationships
• Inability to defend against stressors

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Wellness paradigm
Mental (intellectual) well-being
Spiritual well-being
Emotional well-being
Physical well-being
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Wellness paradigm

• The integration , balance, and harmony of the
• mind, body, spirit, and emotions
• for optimal well-being,
• where the whole is considered greater than the
  sum of the parts.

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A holistic approach to stress management

• To deal effectively with stress all areas must
  be addressed equally to integrate, balance, and
  give harmony for optimal well-being

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An effective holistic approach to stress
management includes

• Physical well-being, the ability of all bodys
  physiological systems to function optimally
• Mental well-being, ability to gather, process,
  recall, and communicate information

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An effective holistic approach to stress
management includes

• Emotional well-being, ability to recognize,
  feel, and control the entire range of human
  emotions
• Spiritual well-being, the evolution of higher
  consciousness through relationships, values,
  and purpose in life

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Application AssignmentFirst real quiz is on
Monday - bring 3x5 card each day

• Question 1