PSYC 3600 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - Stress and Resilience
8 Feb 2015
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Examples: a person"s temperament or their level of intelligence: situational characteristics such as when the stress event occurred, the physical setting and whether other people were present, there are intervening factors that mediated the impact of the event on the individual like situational mediators such as social or financial support and psychological mediators such as coping skills or pain tolerance, dohrenwen noted that stress event could cause either a negative or positive consequence, depending on the combination of factors. She saw that community psychologists intervening at both the characteristics level and at the level of mediators: this stress model could be used to direct community intervention efforts as well as to differentiate how community psychology was distinct from clinical psychology, which focused on individual and typically occurred after psychological reactions had developed, the community psychologists dealt with both the individual and situation and intervened early in the process before severe and chronic problems might occur.
