PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Acute Stress Reaction, Adjustment Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Stress can refer to both: adjustive demands placed on organism (stressors, the organism"s internal biological and psychological responses to such demands. Stress = effects stressors create within organism, a by-product of poor or inadequate coping. Coping strategy = efforts to deal with stress. According to hans selye (pioneering stress researcher), stress broken down into: Eustress (positive stress) like the stress during a wedding. Distress (negative stress) like the stress during a funeral. Both tax a person"s resources/coping skills, but distress has more potential to do damage. In dsm-iv-tr, diagnostician can specify on axis iv the specific psychosocial stressors facing a person. Axis iv scale particularly useful in relation to 3 axis i categories: adjustment disorder, acute stress disorder, ptsd. Prejudice, discrimination, unfulfillment in job, death of loved one is. Difficult to cope with b/c often lead to self-devaluation and feeling common environmental frustrations frustrations based on personal limitations incompetent: conflicts needs/motives (requirement of one precludes satisfaction of others) avoidance types.