This document discusses various topics related to health psychology and behavioral medicine. It defines terms like health psychology, behavioral medicine, and lifestyle diseases. It also describes behavioral risk factors and disease-prone personalities. Additionally, it discusses strategies for promoting health like refusal skills training, life skills training, and wellness. It outlines personality types associated with superior stress resistance. Finally, it provides information on the physiological effects of stress and strategies for managing stress through social and emotional competence.

3. Health Psychology: Uses behavioral principles to
prevent illness and promote health
Behavioral Medicine:Applies psychology to
manage behavioral problems
Lifestyle Diseases: Diseases related to health-
damaging personal habits
Behavioral Risk Factors: Behaviors that increase
the chances of disease, injury, or premature death
Disease-Prone Personality: Personality type
associated with poor health; person tends to be
chronically depressed, anxious, and hostile

4.  Refusal SkillsTraining: Program that teaches
young people how to resist pressures to
begin smoking
 Life SkillsTraining:Teaches stress reduction,
self-protection, decision making, self-control,
and social skills
 Wellness: Positive state of good health and
well-being

7.  Personality type associated with
superior stress resistance
▪Sense of personal commitment to
self and family
▪Feel they have control over their lives
▪See life as a series of challenges, not
threats

12. Aches and pains
Diarrhea or constipation
Nausea, dizziness
Chest pain, rapid heartbeat
Loss of sex drive
Frequent colds

13. Eating more or less
Sleeping too much or too little
Isolating yourself from others
Procrastinating or neglecting
responsibilities
Using alcohol, cigarettes, or
drugs to relax
Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting,
pacing)

16. Remember the Four As
Avoid
Alter
Adapt
Accept

17. See if there
really is
something you
can change or
control in the
situation.

29. This is a long range
strategy of adapting to
your situation, and the
effects of stress in your
life.Try to isolate and work
with one "effect" at a time

38.  Series of bodily reactions to prolonged stress; occurs in
three stages
 Alarm Reaction: Body resources are mobilized to cope
with added stress
 Stage of Resistance: Body adjusts to stress but at a
high physical cost; resistance to other stressors is
lowered
 Stage of Exhaustion: Body’s resources are drained and
stress hormones are depleted, possibly resulting in:
Psychosomatic disease
Loss of health
Complete collapse

39. •Self awareness
•Self management
•Social awareness
•Relationship
management

40. •Realize when you are stressed
•Stay connected with your internal
emotional experience
•Recognize and effectively use nonverbal
cues and body language
•Develop the capacity to meet challenges
with humor
•Resolve conflict positively

41. •Improve
communication
•Consult your
employees
•Cultivate a friendly
social climate