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P10 - HealthPsy - Q3-Explain the environmental, social and psychological…
P10 - HealthPsy - Q3-Explain the environmental, social and psychological stressors.
Stress & Stressors
Stress is a complex process by which an organism responds to certain environmental or psychological events called stressors that pose challenge or danger to the organism.
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Cataclysmic Events
These events are stressors that have sudden and powerful impact. Ex: War, natural disasters like tornadoes, earthquake, hurricanes, and nuclear accident are unpredictable, imprisonment, torture and powerful threats.
The fact that cataclysmic stressors usually affect large numbers of people at one time is also important in rate of recovery. Individuals have no specific immunity - many homes are damaged, many people are injured, and so on.
People draw together after a disaster by helping each other seems like a logical way of speeding recovery and rebuilding, disasters often lead to an increase in social cohesion in affected communities.
Personal stressors
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These events include response to illness, death or losing one's job, the death of a parent is generally an intensely painful loss and it is not always anticipated.
The biggest different between Cataclysmic events and Personal stressors is the extent of impact, or the number of people affected.
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