Health

Something that causes stress

The physical and emotional reactions to a stressor

Nervous and Endocrine systems

When you tell your arm to reach for an orange.

things like digestion, heart rate, breathing, blood pressure.

when your brain decideds that you are facing a threat, the two systems activate and release hormons like adrinaline.

preparing carefully and visualizing success.

overreacting, using tabaco, or alcohol, or expressing hostality.

the sum of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional tendencies.

personality trait that is a particular form of optimism. They see fewer situations as stressful and react less intensely to stress.

associated with people who are aggressive and argumentative and who need to have power over others.

drawn to others and want to be liked as friends.

Personality trait associated with the ability to face adversity and recover quickly from difficulties.

A pattern of stress responses consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.

Positive Stressor

Negative Stressor

The body is more susceptible to disease or injury because it is geared ip to deal with a crisis. Someone in this stage may experience headaches, indigestion, anxiety, and disrupted sleeping and eating patterns.

A person can cope with normal life and added stress.

Stage where the bodys resources are depleted, and the body is unable to maintain normal function. If this stage is extended, long term damage may result.

Yoga, Tai Chi, Biofeedback, sleep.

Mental health, defined as the extent to which we are able to funtion optimally in the face of challenges, wheather we have a mental illness or not.

Ability to define positive goals and to identify concrete, measurable ways of achieving them.

Physiological needs: food water etc. Saftely and Security,Love and Belongingness, Self-esteem, and Self actualization.

“to find nurture genius and talent” and “to make normal life more fulfilling”

The plesent life, The engaged life, and the meaninful life.

just know

Mental mechanis, for coping with confluct or anxiety

emotional disturbance that is intense and persistnt enought to affect normal finction; two common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder.

History of previous attempts, sense of hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, or worthlessness, medical problems, mental disorders, family history, isolations, neglection.

The biological model, the behavioral model, the cognitive model, the psychodynamic model

Emphasizes the minds activity depends entirely on an organic structure, the brain, whose composition is genetically determined. (medication therapy)

Focuses on what people do, their overt behavior, rather than on brain structures and chemistry or on thoughts and consciousness.

Emphasizes the effect of ideas on behavior and feeling.

emphasizes thoughts.

Glutamate, Gamma-aminobutryic acid, Glycine.