NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sympathetic Nervous System, Stress Management, Stressor
11 Nov 2012
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Supporting and strengthening families through expected and unexpected life events. Change in family is constant change in family experiences, family unit, and external forces ranging from mild to dramatic. Family stress pressure or tension in the family system a disturbance in the steady state of the family (boss, Social stress actual or perceived threats in relationships at work, conflicts at school, or interactions within society. Psychological stress a particular relationship between individual environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being (lazarus & folkman, 1984) Coping - a person"s cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage (reduce, minimize, master or tolerate) the demands of the individual-environment interaction that is appraised to be taxing or exceeding the person"s resources. Cognitive theory of psychological stress and coping is transactional person and the environment are viewed as being in a dynamic mutually reciprocal bidirectional relationship.
