Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mental Health Professional, Casual Sex, Binge Drinking

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Anecdotal evidence indicates stress can affect physical & psychological health in. When people undergo a major upheaval (lose spouse/bankrupt/resettle in new culture) their chance of sudden death following psych trauma increases. Health-care residents have little control over own lives, become passive, and die closely tied ways from giving up. Holocaust survivors (esp adolescents at end of ww2) continue to have neg psych effects (paranoia/depression) Psych distress (anxiety/depression) higher among students than general population but distress declines with each passing year in university. Stress (selye) body"s physiological response to threatening events: focused on how human body adapts to env threats regardless of psych/physio source. Higher the score, worse the physical and mental health. Original scale outdated and didn"t include uni students events but readjusted version for undergrads had average score of 1247. Stress neg feelings/beliefs that occur whenever people feel unable to cope w/ (lazarus) subjective stress causes problem (if construe event in a neg way) demands from env.