Lesson 1341 of 1524
Anxiety, OCD, and Trauma-Stressor Disorders
Individuals often experience stress, both emotional and physical, during their lifetime.
Practice this chapterIndividuals often experience stress, both emotional and physical, during their lifetime. Chronic stress has been linked to adverse health outcomes, such as weakened immune systems, slow wound healing, and an increased risk of chronic diseases (Ford et al., 2023).
As such, nursing professionals must recognize signs of stress in their clients and employ effective stress-reduction techniques. Effective strategies to alleviate client stress include clear communication, creating a comfortable environment, involving clients in decision-making, and providing psychological support (Chesak et al., 2019)
stress — body’s response to external pressures or threats, often resulting in physiological and emotional reactions. anxiety — heightened state of arousal and worry that may not always have a clear external cause. phobia — excessive and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that is typically harmless. body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) — mental disorder in which a person is preoccupied with perceived defects or flaws in their appearance.
Worked example
What does “stress” mean in Anxiety, OCD, and Trauma-Stressor Disorders?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for stress.
- 2The book says: body’s response to external pressures or threats, often resulting in physiological and emotional reactions.
- 3Do not use the meaning of anxiety. That term means heightened state of arousal and worry that may not always have a clear external cause.
Result: body’s response to external pressures or threats, often resulting in physiological and emotional reactions
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for stress.
Do not swap stress and anxiety. stress means body’s response to external pressures or threats, often resulting in physiological and emotional reactions. anxiety means heightened state of arousal and worry that may not always have a clear external cause.
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