PSYC1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Passive Smoking, Biopsychosocial Model
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Stress is any circumstances thatthreaten or are perceived to threaten one"s well-being coping skills. Health psychology:studies the psychological illness is caused by the interaction of. Social factors thatare associated with promotion - maintainance of health. Stress can also be a pile up of events. The smaller things will begin to pile up. Primary appraisal is an initial evaluation ofwhether an event is relevantto you, relevant butnotthreatening or stressful. Secondary appraisal is an evaluation ofyour coping resources options for dealing with the stress. Acute stressors are threatening events thathave a shorttime. Major types of stress e span-clear ending. and have no time limit for an exam, your house floods. Such as encountering an intoxicated person, feeling challenged. Chronic stressors are threatening events thatlastquite some time. Such as, financial struggles, credit debt, having a mean boss. Frustration is having a goal thatis blocked. Change in life thatrequires readjusting can be stressful. When under pressure you are expected to actin a specific manner.
