FRHD 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biofeedback, Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress Management

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1100
• Professor: Robin Milhausen

Document Summary

What is stress: physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. Stressors: acute time limited stressors: anxiety provoking, brief naturalistic stressors: serious challenge, stressful event: recognizes stressful situations will come to an end, chromic stressors: don"t show clear end point, distant stressors: (ptsd) traumatic experience still affecting person. Student stressors: test stress, academic failure, nancial problems, linked to headaches, sleep disturbance, and colds. Breakup stress: deal with complicated grief, intense extended period of grief often linked to loss of another person, female students report more break us stress. Financial stress: paying school while trying to maintain good grades. Test stress: increase in stress while studying for exams. Illness + disability: body as tremendous impact on emotions, learning disability is a common source of stress in students. Technostress: adaptation of peoples inability to manage with new technology. Workplace stress: work stress makes work harder, noisy work environment increases stress.