stress
- Created by: Ashleigh Ward
- Created on: 14-04-13 20:17
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- STRESS!!!
- stress and immune system
- immune response
- the body is so focused on dealing with the stress that the body stops producing cells important in the immune system eg phagocytes, helper t cells ect...
- this means you could be more likely to get ill and run down
- the body is so focused on dealing with the stress that the body stops producing cells important in the immune system eg phagocytes, helper t cells ect...
- effect on health
- CHD, blood pressure, slow healing ect..
- immune response
- everyday life
- life changes (marriage, childbirth, moving house)
- SRRS = List of life changing events with a rating. people had to add up how many they had been though in the past two year to see how stressed they were
- hard to generalise because al rating were by americans
- SRRS = List of life changing events with a rating. people had to add up how many they had been though in the past two year to see how stressed they were
- Daily hassles eg, cleaning, arguing, driving
- wear you down over tme
- work place stress
- work load and job controll
- people with higher work load and most controll are more stressed
- work load and job controll
- life changes (marriage, childbirth, moving house)
- personality
- Type B = Less agressive and more relaxed
- Type A = Agressive and competitive
- type C = thrives and stress
- stress management
- physiological
- DRUGS
- bz's .... mode of action
- beta blockers... mode of actions
- drugs can be very effective in helping symptoms but not causes of stress. they have many side effects and you can become relient on them.
- DRUGS
- psychological
- stress inoculation therapy (SIT)
- sit is a form of cbt which conceptualises stress, give you skills to help it and tests is on the outside world
- this can be very expensive and time consuming.
- stress inoculation therapy (SIT)
- physiological
- stress and immune system
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