STRESS AND HEALTH

CHAPTER 14

Today’s EQ

Analyze and define stress and identify various stressors. Discuss and conclude, how stress makes our bodies more susceptible to disease.

WELCOME

Place your signed syllabus sand contact form on the appropriate homework shelf if you have it. Ensure that your name is on both sheets.

Ponder:

“At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

~Alan Alda

Today’s Agenda

Bell ringer/warm up

Article Analysis/Vocab group activity/Introduction to 1st chapter

Vocab charts explained and terms required

Commitment letter

ARTICLE ANALYSIS/VOCAB GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Individually-Organize these vocab words into 4 or 5 groups. Inc. a heading and words from the list beneath. Be sure to include a ? column. This column is for words that you do not understand.

Category                 Category                Category          Category          Don’t’

Know ??? word                  word                        word                 word                       word

word                            word                       word                  word                       word word                           word                         word                 word                        word word                           word                         word                 word                       word

Part 2

As a group, compare your charts/column titles and words. Then, rearrange as a group.

After discussing, grab a sheet of chart paper and 2 markers. List your columns and words on the large paper for class discussion.

Part 3

Each group will explain their reasoning and we will compare/discuss as a whole class

What is today’s article about???

Silently read the article-5 mins

Thoughts?

Whole class discussion

As a group, without looking back at the article,

Summarize using at least 25 of the words from the list.

Always learn new vocab.

It helps with the comprehension of the text.

Always summarize including the most important information.

Always reflect.

COMMITMENT LETTERWhy make a commitment unless you really mean to stay with it? It helps to write your commitment in a letter

to yourself about your plans to be successful this year in AP Psych. You may want to create a Contract for Academic Success. A contract is a formal, written commitment of your intentions to complete or fulfill certain requirements.

You may find a commitment letter or a Contract for Academic Success online that reflects your feelings but you must tailor it to you and include all the requirements below. After you complete the letter, turn it in for grading purposes. Once I return it, keep it in the front of your binder where you can read it periodically to help keep you motivated.

In your commitment letter,

address class attendance,

regular study

completing all assignments on time

setting goals and focusing on achieving them

creating a support networks of friends and classmates

open to new ideas and ways of studying

using all of the resources available

periodically touch base with teachers and counselors

Attached your commitment letter to this handout. This is your rubric. This assignment is worth 10 points, 8 points for the above requirements, 1 point for letter format and 1 point for neatness (legibility). You may type this but tying of this assignment is not required. If you decide to write, you must write in pen.

Read pages 531-546 before next class

Due next class A DAY 8/28 B DAY 8/31

GOOD MORNING! 8/28 AND 8/31

Place your signed syllabus and contact forms

on your class shelf if you have not turned them in already. Place your commitment letter on your class shelf as well.

Warm Up

Agenda Bell Ringer/Warm Up How to complete vocab charts How to complete Cornell notes Lesson-Stress and health 531-546 Assignment-The process of making changes to reduce stress and

better health Home learning- Read pages 546-572-Coping with stress and promoting

health

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TERMS DUE SEPT 3/4Chapter 14 page 5731.Behavioral Medicine

2.Health psychology

3.Stress

4.General Adaptation Syndrome

5.Coronary heart disease

6.Type A

7.Type B

8.Psychophysiological illness

9.Lymphocytes

10.Aerobic exercise

11.Biofeedback

12.Complementary and alternative medicine

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STRESS AND HEALTH INTRO

Psychological states cause physical reactions~examples? If negative stress endures, it could also bring

on skin rashes, asthma attacks and high blood pressure.

Prolonged stress + unhealthy behaviors=serious illness and possibly death

Four leading causes of serious illness and death: heart disease, cancer, stroke and chronic lung disease

INTRO CONTINUED

Behavioral medicine-~integrates behavioral and medical knowledge~modify behavioral sources of illness such as illicit drugs and poor nutrition in effort to lessen suffering and increase life expectancy.

Health psychology~provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

STRESS AND STRESSORS

Good StressWhen perceived as challenges, stressors can have positive effects. Motivation is one. What are some others?

Bad StressSome stressors can also threaten other resources

for example our job security, our deep beliefs or self image

STRESS AND STRESSORS

Stress-the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors.

~the process by which we appraise and cope with environmental threats and challenges.

~Stress arise less from the events themselves but more from how we perceive them or what/how we think about the situation.Example p. 533

General Adaptation Syndrome- concept that the body’s adaptive response to stress in 3 stages

Alarm

Resistance

Exhaustion

Pg. 534

STRESS AND THE HEART

Coronary Heart Disease, the number one cause of death, has been linked with the competitive , hard driving, anger prone type A personality.

Type B- Easy going and relaxed people

Under stress, the body of a reactive, hostile person secretes more of the hormones that accelerate the buildup of plaque on the hearts artery walls.

STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS

Catastrophes

Significant Life Changes

Daily Hassles

PERCEIVED CONTROL The above events are especially stressful

when we appraise them as both negative and uncontrolled.

When we perceive a loss of control over a situation, we become more vulnerable to ill health pg. 537

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT/SELF REFLECTION

WELCOME TO PSYCH CLASS

Turn in your signed syllabus if you have not done so already.

Warm up1. How do you usually handle stressful situation? What

strategies, activities etc. do you use to help you cope with stressful events or situations?

2. Recall- What are the four leading causes of serious illness or death?

Today’s Agenda

Warm Up

The process of making changes (B day only)

Lesson on Stress and Health

RX for Stress

Stress mini skits

STRESS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE

Stress diverts energy away from the immune system, making people more vulnerable to infections.

Stress does not cause diseases such as cancer, but may very well influence the disease progression.

Psychophysiological illness- mind-body illness such as hypertension and headaches

Stress and AIDS, Cancer p. 543 and 545

PROMOTING HEALTHCoping with Stress

~If we can’t change a situation we must manage it.

~Stress management may include :

Aerobic exercise

Biofeedback

Relaxation

Social support - .p. 550

Spirituality and Faith p. 553-555

Others?

PROMOTING HEALTHModifying Illness-Related Behaviors

Alternative Medicinep. 556-557

Massage therapySpiritual healingAromatherapyChiropracticDo you or your parents practice alternative

medicine?

Smoking, obesity and dietHelpful tips p. 561 and 570

WOULD YOU PUT THESE ITEMS ON YOUR DINNER PLATE TO EAT OR IN YOUR CUP TO DRINK?

LET’S SUM IT UP!

Lets Share!

Rx for Stress- We will share ideas abut ways to relieve stress.

Stress Skits!

STRESS SKITS GROUPS OF 4

The first skit should demonstrate how not to handle a stressful situation.

The second skit should be your PRIMARY FOCUS. Ensure that you act out a healthy way to handle the situation. Make sure that your solution demonstrates how the situation a induced physical reaction. Make sure that the dialogue and actions used to eliminate the stress and better the situation is descriptive.

10 mins to discuss then we will present

CRITICAL THINKING-HOME LEARNINGDue next class Sept. 3rd and 4th

We will discuss as a class your response to the first scenario and question. A response to the second question is required but will only be shared if you desire.

1. To promote health by discouraging smoking, many governments now heavily tax cigarettes. Would you concur (agree) with the suggestion by some nutritionist and health care professional to put a tax on fatty foods to decrease their consumptions? Explain YOUR perspective on this issue.

2. List 3 actions that you will take to ensure healthy physical health?

Yes, you must write in complete sentences…in pen!

Reminders

Terms and notes are due for a grade next class. Complete all parts of the term chart at home if you did not complete them during class. You may NOT take the vocab quiz and/or the chapter exam if you don’t have the terms and notes.

Study today’s notes at home

Ch. 14 exam –Sept. 8th and 9th

REVIEW DAY! Place your vocab charts and Cornell notes on

your class shelf. Make sure that you name is on

the top of each page. Staple the like pages together.

Warm Up

1. Each semester, Bob does not study until just before midterms. Then he is forced to work around the clock until final exams, which makes him sick, probably because he is in the _____ phase of the _____.

a) alarm; general adaptation syndrome

b) resistance; general adaptation syndrome

c) exhaustion; general adaptation syndrome

d) depletion; post-tramatic strss syndrome

2. Philip’s physician prescribes him a stress management program to help Philip with his headaches. The physician has apparently diagnosed Philip’s condition as a _______ rather than a physical disorder.

psychogenic

psychophysiological

hypochondriac

biofeedback

Agenda

a) Scenario question discussion

b) Review video

c) Questions

d) Skits

CRITICAL THINKING

We will discuss as a class your response to the first scenario and question. A response to the second question is required but will only be shared if you desire.

1. To promote health by discouraging smoking, many governments now heavily tax cigarettes. Would you concur (agree) with the suggestion by some nutritionist and health care professional to put a tax on fatty foods to decrease their consumptions? Explain YOUR perspective on this issue.

2. List 3 actions that you will take to ensure healthy physical health?

STRESS SKITS GROUPS OF 4

. The way you handle the event should be your PRIMARY FOCUS. Ensure that you act out a healthy way to handle the situation. Make sure your solution demonstrates how the situation a induced physical reaction. Make sure that the dialogue and actions used to eliminate the stress and better the situation is descriptive.

10 mins to discuss then we will present

REMINDERS

You may NOT take the vocab quiz and/or the chapter exam if you did have the terms and notes today. You may complete them tonight and return them to me tomorrow for half credit only. If not, no exam and vocab quiz for you. You must bring your form back signed.

Home learning

Study notes and terms

Ch. 14 exam –Sept. 8th and 9th