NURS 3554 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sympathetic Nervous System, Pituitary Gland, Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Chapter 10- understanding and managing responses to stress. No: fever 105, sore throat, tested for mono, could be avoided if you take time to yourself, don"t learn well with stress, stress doesn"t cause cold, but affects immune system. If stressor continues beyond body"s capacity, organism exhausts resources and becomes susceptible to disease and death. The role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (hpa) gland in chronic stress: epinephrine, subsides as the threat passes, hypothalamus, stimulates the hpa axis, corticotropic-releasinghormone(crh, travels to the pituitary gland, acetylcholine (ach, cortisol is released. 1: when stress is prolonged, chemicals produced by the stress response (cortisol, adrenaline, and other catecholamines) can have damaging effects on the body. Stress theories: lazarus: psychological reactions, distress, eustress. Responses to stress: positive stress responses, problem solving, using social support systems, reframing redefining the situation to see both positive and negative sides, negative stress responses, avoidance, self blame, wishful thinking.
