FRHD 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stress Management, Hans Selye, Natural Disaster

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

Document Summary

A physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental. May be a factor in: disease causation, internal state of arousal, physical state of the body to various demands. When we say we are stressed it means . Stressors: the things that upset or excite us. Alzheimer"s: distant stressor: traumatic experiences that occurred long ago child abuse, work in war zone, continue to have psychological impact. Eustress: positive stress weddings, births, etc. Distress: negative stress depleating, destroying of life"s energy. General adaptation syndrome (developed by selye): discovered that our bodies constantly strive to maintain a stable and consistent physiological state homeostasis. Developed by richard lazarus and susan folkman. Looks at the relation between stress and health. Lazarus: stress is neither an environmental stimulus, a characteristic of the person, nor a response, but a relationship between demands and the power to deal with them without unreasonable or destructive costs.