Mos 41-42
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datlovestosing on April 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 behavioral medicine | integrating behavioral and medical knowledge |
| health psychology | application of psychological concepts and research to illness prevention and treatment and to health advancement |
| stress | process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging |
| general adaptation syndrome | Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in 3 stages; alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
| coronary heart disease | clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscles; leading cause of death in man developing nations |
| Type A | Friedman and Rosenman; competitive, hard driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, relaxed people |
| Type B | easygoing, relaxed people |
| psychophysiological illness | mind-body illness; any stress related physical illness (hypertension, headache) |
| complementary and alternative medicine | unprove health care treatments not taught widely in medical school, not used in hospitals, and usually not reimbursed by insurance |
| cope | alleviate stress using emotional, cognitive or behavioral methods |
| problem focued coping | change the stressor or the way we interact with it |
| emotion focused coping | avoiding/ ignoring the stressor and attending to emotional needs related to stress reaction |
| social support | feeling liked, affirme, intimate friends/ family, pet |
| aerobic exercise | sustained exercise-increased heart rate and lung fitness; may alleviate depression and anxiety ; provides immediate mood boost |
| biofeedback | electronically recording, amplifying and feeding info back regarding subtle physiological state (blood pressure, muscle tension) |
| psychosomatic | psychologically caused physical symptoms |
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