PSYC 3170 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Reading 3
20 Sep 2017
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Ch. 5 october 12: reducing stress reactions, stress management. Stress management: a program of behavioural and cognitive techniques that is designed to reduce psychological and physical reactions to stress: medication. Benzodiazepines: activate a neurotransmitter that decreases neural transmission in the central nervous system. Beta blockers: reduce anxiety and blood pressure. It can include inderal: behavioural and cognitive methods. Progressive muscle relaxation: they focus their attention on specific muscle groups while alternately tightening and relaxing these muscles. Systemic desensitization: based on the view that fears are learned by classical conditioning, it is a procedure that reverses this learning by pairing the feared object or situation with either pleasant or neutral events. Useful method for reducing fear and anxiety. It uses a stimulus hierarchy: a graded sequence of approximations to the conditioned stimulus, the feared situation. Counterconditioning: the calm response gradually replaces the fear response. Imaginal situations: having the person think about calling the dentist.
