82:161 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Texas Education Agency Accountability Ratings System, Natural Disaster, Extraversion And Introversion
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The field of health psychology is concerned with the effects of stress and other psychological factors in the development and maintenance of physical problems. Health psychology is a subspecialty within behavioral medicine. A behavioral medicine approach to physical illness is concerned with psychological factors that may predispose an individual to medical problems. When we experience or perceive challenges to our physical or emotional well-being that exceed our coping resources and abilities, the psychological condition that results is typically referred to as stress. To avoid confusion, we will refer to external demands as stressors, to the effects they create within the organism as stress, and to efforts to deal with stress as coping strategies. Both ki(cid:374)ds of st(cid:396)ess (cid:272)a(cid:374) ta(cid:454) a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:272)opi(cid:374)g skills, although (cid:271)ad st(cid:396)ess (cid:894)dist(cid:396)ess(cid:895) t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) has the potential to do more damage. The relationship between stress and psychopathology is considered so important that the role of stress is recognized in diagnostic formulations.
