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Stress-related disorders

Stress, Coping, and Health

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Grant Clay Period 3 11/11/08 AP Psychology Outline Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health Red ? Definition Blue - Important Points Green - Important People & Contributions Biopsychosocial Model ? Physical Illness is caused by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Health Psychology ? How Psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. Stress ? Any Circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one?s well being and that thereby tax ones coping abilities. Stress has a Cumulative Nature. The Feeling of Stress depends upon how one interprets a situation. Acute Stressors ? Threatening Events that have a Relatively Short Duration and a clear Endpoint.
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