PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Assertiveness, Scania N112
6 Oct 2013
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Without stressors in the environment, life would be easy. If stress is chronic it can be damaging to health. Stress traditionally conceptualised as major life events (rank order): death of a spouse, divorce, marital separation, jail term, death of a relative. Lazarus and folkman (1984) proposed life events cause chronic daily. Acute stress disorder criteria hypervigilance or avoidance (place or thoughts) month= possible post-traumatic stress disorder) and their environment. How able they are to cope = secondary appraisals. The two appraisals within the transactional model are: Challenge: potential positive outcomes: anxiety following a traumatic stressor (eg, an earthquake, intrusive memories or dissociation (surreal or amnesia) and, lasting for 3 days to 1 month after the traumatic even (>1. Modelled stress as an ongoing process of transaction between the individual: clinically significant distress or impairment, not due to a substance, head injury, or brief psychosis. Challenge: i had shed loads of sick days i can use.
