PSYC203 Lecture Notes - Stress Management, Clinical Psychology, Assertiveness
27 Oct 2013
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A: yes, without stressors in the environment life would be easy. No, there are always stressors in life and stressors only become meaningful through appraisal. If stress is chronic it can be damaging to your health. Stress traditionally conceptualised as major life event: death of a spouse, divorce, marital separation, death of a relative. Intrusive memories or dissociation (surreal or amnesia) and hyper vigilance or avoidance (place and thought) Lasting for 3 days to 1 month after the traumatic event (>1 month = possible post-traumatic stress disorder) Not due to substance, head injury or brief psychosis. Lazarus and folkman (1984) proposed that life events cause chronic daily hassles = minor unpleasant events (acute) Modelled stress as an on-going process of transaction between the individual and their environment. The individual males appraisals of: the situation = primary appraisal. Harm: the negative outcomes experienced so far. Challenge: potential positive outcome: how able they are to cope = secondary appraisal.
