01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Walter Bradford Cannon, Hans Selye, Behavioral Medicine
19 Nov 2020
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Dsm-5 classifies stress related to physical illness as psychological factors affecting other medical conditions under the broad topic of somatic symptoms and other disorders. Stress: any challenging event that requires physiological, cognitive, or behavioral adaptation. Medical scientists now view every physical illness from colds to cancer -as a product of the interaction between the mind and body. A multidisciplinary field that includes both medical and mental health professionals who investigate psychological factors in the symptoms, cause, and treatment of physical illnesses. Stress is a challenging event that requires physiological, cognitive, or behavioral adaptation-and an individual"s response. Holmes and rahe"s (1967) social readjustment rating scale (srrs) Assigns stress values to life events based on the judgments of a large group of normal adults. Views stressors that produce more life change units as causing more stress. Richard lazarus"s(1966) definition of stress even plus reaction to it! The individual"s appraisal of a challenging life event.
