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Health Psychology fight-or-flight response – The response that takes place when an organism perceives a threat and the body rapidly mobilizes energy ABCDS of weight l...

Health Psychology fight-or-flight response – The response that takes place when an organism perceives a threat and the body rapidly mobilizes energy ABCDS of weight loss – A common approach used by health reserves via the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system to psychologists in treating people with excess weight, including Activity either fight or flee increase, Behavior change, Cognitive change, Dietary change, and Social support general adaptation syndrome – The hypothesis developed by Hans Selye stating that when confronted with a temporary stressor, the fight- ABCs of relapse prevention – A component of substance abuse relapse or-flight system works effectively to provide energy for immediate prevention involving an examination by the client and the health fight-or-flight needs, but when faced with repeated or prolonged psychologist of the events that occur before (Antecedents) and after exposure to stress, the body eventually fails to adapt and becomes (Consequences) consuming the substance (Behavior vulnerable to illness behavioral medicine – An area of specialization for clinical health psychology – A subdiscipline of behavioral medicine that deals psychologists and other health professionals focused on the impact of specifically with how psychological processes (e.g., cognitions, moods, behavior on wellness and involving the integration of knowledge from social networks) influence health and illness a wide variety of social sciences, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology, with knowledge from the medical disciplines hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis – A system of structures (i.e., hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal gland) that is activated by biofeedback – A type of treatment used by health psychologists for pain stress and controls the release of cortisol management clients designed to achieve control over the body via educating patients about bodily processes of which they are typically patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) – A relatively new model unaware of care, often involving health psychologists, that emphasizes primary care that is high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive, holistic, and chronic pain – Pain that lasts 6 months or longer coordinated chronic stress – Stress levels that are consistently high and unremitting problem-focused coping – An approach to coping with stress that emphasizes proactive, constructive attempts to take action about a coping – The process of managing the demands of stress stressful situation cortisol – The human body’s stress hormone, the release of which is psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) – The field of study concerned with controlled by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis the interactions among behavior, the nervous system, and the immune system detoxification - A common and important component of the treatment of substance abuse problems designed to prevent any dangerous side relaxation training – The first step of systematic desensitization in effects that may result from weaning the body off the substance too which the behavior therapist teaches the client progressive relaxation quickly techniques that induce a relaxation response incompatible with anxiety disease-prone personality – A personality characterized by marked Hans Selye – A pioneer in stress research who developed the general anxiety, depression, and hostility that predisposes people to stress- adaptation syndrome hypothesis related illnesses such as arthritis, ulcers, and coronary heart disease social support – Relationships with others who can provide support in a time of crisis and who can share in good fortune as well stress – The psychological and/or physiological response to difficult or demanding internal or external circumstances tolerance – A phenomenon whereby the body requires increasing amounts of a substance to achieve the desired effect values affirmation – A relatively new clinical approach in health psychology in which clients are encouraged to clarify and affirm, often in writing, their own personal values, which often contrast with their unhealthy behaviors withdrawal – A phenomenon whereby cessation of a substance produces negative symptoms