Community Psychology Ch. 8 Stress and Coping

Stress and coping 

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What are the most revelent aspects of apprasial?
Challenging or threatening, expected or unexpected, controllable or not
Virtuous spiral
Resources are increased, sucesses build on each other and the stressor is transformed into a caralyst for growth
Helper therapy principal
Providing aid to others promotes ones own well being
Stressors
Cirumstances that represent a threatened or actual loss or scarcity of resources
Resources
Material, social, and personal factors that promote health and personal wellbeing
Stimulus based models
Antecedent events(stressors) produce a reaction
eg. holmes and rahe life events scale
Response based model
Environmental situations lead to a stress response(consequence)
eg. general adaptation syndrome
Transactional model
Stress is the transaction between the characteristics of the environment and the social and personal resources avaliable to a person
based on ecological theory
3 components of appriasial
1. primary appraisal (estimating the strength of the stressor)
2. secondary appraisal (estimating the resources and coping options for responding to the stressor)
3. reappraisal (changing perceptions of the stressors intensity, identifying unrecognized resources, or finding meaning in the situation
Social embeddedness
Closer ties to family , friends, community or other social grouping
Potential outcomes of stressors and stress reactions
Wellness
resilience
thriving
empowerment

or
distress
dysfunction
clinical disorders
Types of social support
Material
emotional
esteem
informational
companionship