Stressed to the Limit: Blending Psychosocial Support with Critical Care
Healthcare professionals are increasingly adopting a biopsychosocial perspective, integrating psychology into practices at hospitals and critical care centers. Cindy Lauren's diagnosis of stage III lobular breast cancer stretched the limits of her a...
Stressed to the Limit: Physiology of Stress, The
The field of psychoneuroimmunology seeks to understand the interaction between the immune system and the central nervous system. Most stress research is focused on the fight-fight reaction, and more recently threats to the social self. The autonomic...
Stressed to the Limit: Cognitive Buffers Against Stress
Several cognitive factors appear to immunize people against the damaging effects of stressful events. If your environment is predictable, or you have some degree of control over it, fewer negative psychological responses tend to occur. Social suppor...
Stressed to the Limit: Finding Resilience
Resilience, the ability to bounce back despite life's difficulties, has become an important research topic in psychology. Two cancer survivors talk about their response to their disease, and how they learned to take the cancer experience and turn it...
Stressed to the Limit: Just Say No...to Smoking?!!
People often rate their attempts to stop smoking as even more difficult than giving up alcohol or other drugs. The fact that tobacco is widely advertised, cigarettes are easy to obtain, and toxic effects are slow to develop may add to the problem. F...
Stressed to the Limit: Diverse Reactions to Stressful Situations
The same situation may stress one person by not another based on their perception of events and coping strategies available. What people tend to forget is that there are at least two forms of stress response: fight-flight and disengagement. An examp...
Stressed to the Limit: Promoting Healthy Behaviors
Years ago people died of infectious diseases. Today many people die from conditions that are self imposed, lifestyle diseases that result from too much drinking or smoking, unhealthy diets, promiscuous sexual behavior. The big push in public health ...
Stressed to the Limit: Stress and Susceptibility to Disease
Certain physiological reactions to stress can increase our vulnerability to infections diseases like colds or flu. A number of researchers did a series of studies to determine why. One factor seems to be that lymphocytes which serve an immune functi...
Stressed to the Limit: Stressful Test, A
A college student reports to a psychology department's research lab, her assignment to give a prepared speech in association with a job interview. In this test situation called the Trier Social Stress Task, evaluators have been instructed to stare a...
Stressed to the Limit: Social Support and Emotional Correlates with Health
Researchers have found that social support correlates with healthy blood pressure and lower levels of stress hormones. People with a close network who were exposed to a virus that causes a common cold, then quarantined did not become ill. It is thou...