PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Structural Inequality, Homeostasis, Centrism
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Chapter 8: understanding stress and coping in context. Stress and coping in community psychology: the ai(cid:373) of (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity psy(cid:272)hology is (cid:862)u(cid:374)der(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the pro(cid:272)ess where(cid:271)y stress ge(cid:374)erates psy(cid:272)hopathology(cid:863) barbara snell dohenwrend, community psychology considers both community-contextual and clinical-individual perspectives as intertwined in stress and coping. Potential relationships among ecological levels, stressors, and coping processes. Distal factors: predisposing processes which shape stressors, resources, coping processes, and outcomes, distal contextual factors, ex. Cultural traditions, neighbourhood crime, poverty: distal personal factors, genetic and other bi0ological factors, personality traits, etc. Proximal factors: directly trigger or contribute to a problem, major life events, life transitions, daily hassles, disasters, vicious spirals, note: some coping resources may also be proximal, social support. Stress reaction: the personal experience of stress may include physiological, emotional, behavioural, cognitive, and social components, appraisal, the process of constructing the meaning of a stressful situation or event.
