Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Acute Stress Reaction, Dissociative Disorder, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Brent Sinclair

Document Summary

A patern of cogniive appraisals, physiological responses & behavioral tendencies that occur in response to a perceived imbalance between situaional demands & the person"s ability to cope with them. Stressors: potenially threatening events life events daily hassles. ~ 3500 annually in canada devastaing efects on survivors. *some develop ptsd more women than men atempt suicide. More men than women die by suicide (more lethal methods) Vulnerability factors include: lack of support network tendency to become anxious of pessimisic poor coping skills. * make individuals more vulnerable to negaive health consequences. Cognitive factors: opimisic aitude beter immune system funcioning more health-enhancing behaviors. Focuses on happiness, well-being and life saisfacion personal strengths, wisdom, creaivity, imaginaion, and characterisics of posiive groups and posiive insituions. scieniic study of health & well-being hedonic well-being. Spend ime with other people & work to develop close relaionships.