Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Coping With, Prolactin, Psychopathology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

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But less than one month: the family could here sarah moving through the house at night. After that, susan couldn"t sleep at night: everyone"s schedule changes to accommodat sarah"s needs. Research suggests that caregivers often experience emotional, mental and even physical health problems when attending to persons with terminal or chronic illnesses: for susan, putting sarah in a nursing home increased rather than decreased her stress. schedules. But new tensions developed in their interactions with susan. nursing home daily: for susan, the visits were physically and emotionally exhausting, and made it more difficult. But this was not the case: research offers an explanation for this outcome. Lucinda: the interaction between the stressor and the response, sometimes characterized as other family members, elliot and eisdorfer (1982) offer another way to conceptualize stress. In these stress scenarios, individuals know that the challenges will eventually subside but may not know exactly when: chronic stressors seen in the opening story.