34.6: Key Terms
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- adaptation
- the ongoing changes within the body in response to stress
- allostasis
- the ongoing changes within the body in response to stressors
- allostatic load
- the collective burden of chronic stressful events.
- anxiety
- an overwhelming feeling of apprehensiveness, nervousness, and worry about real or perceived events that have an uncertain outcome
- coping
- an adaptive mechanism for managing stress
- crisis
- an inability to cope with a stressful situation
- distress
- negatively perceived stress, or stress that causes a negative response
- eustress
- positively perceived stress, or stress that initiates a positive response
- general adaptation syndrome (GAS)
- theory involving stress as the cause of a three-stage syndrome of events resulting in either adaptation or exhaustion
- homeostasis
- the process by which the human body maintains balance by adjusting to internal and external stimuli
- maturational
- events that happen in a person’s life
- psychophysiological stress model (PSM)
- the relationship between the mental and physical reactions and adaptations to stress
- Roy’s adaptation model (RAM)
- holistic approach to the art and science of nursing structured as a science, model, and practice discipline containing various elements
- stress
- the physiological response by the body to a stimulus, or stressor
- stress-response theory
- the identification of the body’s nonspecific reaction to a threat or stressor
- stressor
- the stimulus or cause of the stress response