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Personal and Population Stress Management Plan

[Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] [Include any grant/funding information and a complete correspondence address.] Personal and Population Stress Management Plan Stress is defined as the mental tension that results from factors that alter an existing status quo or equilibrium. Stress is also defined as the body’s response that is nonspecific when any demand made upon it. Stress can help since it is a natural defense mechanism but it can also hinder because it causes fatigue when it is something that one has to cope up daily. Stressors are triggers that ...

Background of nursing study (Nursing Autobiography)

The individual is a nurse practitioner who runs a primary Care Centre serving a clinically underserved population in an underdeveloped area. The individual addresses the metaparadigms of nursing by focusing on person and health, thus maintaining the individual’s self-concept and ensuring that patients are receiving the care they need. This ensures a link in between the desire and the requirement of the patient. The individual has to act in the utmost interest of the patients depending upon own proficiency. Critical thoughts and good judgment is the requisites that every nurse must acquire in order to care for the ...

Sound Wave Electricals is an Australian based electrical equipment retailer operating 68 stores with 3,500 employees. With such a huge work force and expansive business operations, the company is bound to have several challenges in the management of its workforce. One of these challenges is Low Task Control. Low Task Control refers to often stressing situations where one is expected to complete a given task and achieve objectives in which they have very little control over (Hicks & McSherry, 2006). It also implies lack of control to the very factors influencing the expected outcomes. Low task control is most stressing when ...

Stress is an inevitable part of human life. It acts a factor in human behavior, mentality and social interaction. The inclusion of stress in human life could be in a positive or negative form. Positive form may be helpful in encouraging and adapting to different situation. Stress, when becomes too much, may lead to harmful effect not only on a person’s body, but may also lead to significant damage to a person’s psychological condition. When stress is introduced, a person would always respond as a way to cope, and sometimes the effect would also depend whether the stress was used constructively; or if ...

Adjustment disorder takes center stage following an individual’s inability to cope up with a stressor, for instance, a strenuous life event. Persons with adjustment disorder have depression symptoms; for instance, loss of interest, as well as feelings of hopelessness. At times, this disorder is termed as situational depression, but unlike other forms of depression, situational depression stems from an external stressor (Patricia, 2009). Upon the elimination of that stressor, the individual’s wellbeing is restored (Patricia, 2009).

The underlying symptoms include traumatic stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. DSM-IV-TR has listed six different subtypes of this disorder. Adjustment disorders and V ...

Stress at work refers to detrimental emotional and physical reactions that prevail when the conditions at work are not equivalent to the capabilities, needs or resources of the employee. Workers who are subjected to occupational stress at work do not perform their duties to full potential. Therefore it is vital that an organization should protect its employees from falling prey to work stress. This can be achieved by having a proper management team that plays its tasks of reviewing job descriptions (Landy, 73). This is to ensure that employees handle tasks which they can efficiently execute without any difficulties. When ...

Introduction: Interpersonal conflict reflects the differences, incompatibilities, or disagreements between individuals in a particular relationship whether between coworkers, friends, or romantic partners (Rahim, 2001). It is widely presumed that social support through interpersonal relationships provides a succor of refuge in times of overwhelming crisis or stress. In effect, interpersonal conflict has a logical outcome of increased stress. In fact, seeking emotional social support (e.g. emotions, ventilation), is one of the five most coping mechanism in handling stress (Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989). However, positive outcomes had also resulted from interpersonal conflict and stress (Katz & McNulty, 1994). Consequently, interpersonal conflicts may be associated with ...

Introduction

Sexual harassment has been a pathological problem that has affected many people in different workplaces across the globe. The root of sexual harassment is confirmed to emanate largely from power relations and cultural practices at the workplace. Due to its rampancy, many human rights activists and adherents have carried various researches to decipher the rationale behind the perpetuation of this inhumane practice. Sexual harassment has mostly affected women, a scenario that has attracted impassioned focus on the subject to understand the perennial propagation of the vice. Rationally, legal intervention has been viewed as a prudent manner to eliminate the vice but the ...

Abstract

An increasing number of studies have examined and evaluated the merits of relaxed based and prescriptive stress control methods as applied in various environmental settings. Stress management methods such as cognitive strategies, biofeedback, meditation and muscle relaxation have been educated to various people as a form of reducing subjective and psychological distress. Such strategies focus their attention exclusively on the provision of skills to people individually. The skills assist in the recognition of stress and information regarding how to cope with it in a health promotion perspective. Accordingly, stress management is an effective preventive measure that the human resource departments find ...

TA ABSTRACT – Genetic engineering now has straight forward ecofriendly strategies to produce transformation in plasmids. The transformation process allows engineers to introduce DNa with specific desired capabilities into a host plasmid. In this way plants can be created that are able to resist a particular enemy or stressor without having to use toxics like herbicides and insecticides. The bacteria E. Coli was used to determine whether it can be made resistant to ampicillin or not. AmpR was integrated into the host cells and the tracer, GFP was used to identify expressed cells. The laboratory demonstrated that transformation by plasmids so ...

Personal Stress Prevention Strategy

Personal Stress Prevention Strategy

Introduction

Stress is usually the body’s way of dealing with and responding to the challenge in its environment. Experts are of the opinion that stress evolved primarily to enable us to deal with a difficult situation. Stress responds to a situation with the fight or flight response. As such, the difficult situation in our earlier days might have involved running away from a lion; a speedy reaction was the required and stress served its purpose perfectly. However, the body cannot sustain a state of the stress for a long time and if forced to so it results in some disastrous repercussions. ...

Introduction

Stress is essentially a byproduct of interaction between an individual and his environment. By their very nature occupational settings are liable to brew stress. Work place stress is a common phenomenon and can potentially cause serious disruption in an individual’s personal as well as professional spheres. This work is an attempt at characterizing work place stress in terms of its determinants, manifestations and coping strategies.

Understanding stress

Stress is essentially a byproduct of the interaction between an individual and his environment. Besides, it has both psychological and physiological manifestations. A certain level of stress is part of everyday life. Indeed, to some extent, ...

1. The broken rib will affect the breathing system by blocking the air that L.D may lack the enough breath that causes death. If L.D does not follow instruction to breathe deeply and cough the he may have high chances of suffering heart attack. 2. The pain medication affects his ability to deep breath and movement because of the intake of tabs that innings to the blood tissues. 3. L.Dlifestyle, health habit and age can affect the healing of the damaged tissue because he usedto move from one place to another while dieting, thiswould affect the body ...

1) Choose one of the following stressors (5 points) and describe how it affects you personally as a college student (5 points) using the correct definitions presented in the article/PowerPoint lecture (10 points).- relationships: peers- lack of resources: skills- environment: disruptive/hostile One of the stressors that affect me personal as a college student is the stressor of peers. Peers are a part of meta-theme relationships. The college stressor that describes peer relationships includes developing strong relationships, leaving friends behind to go to school, and isolation from peers. I have left behind my best friends with whom I have developed strong relationships.2) Provide ...

- According to philosophers, stress is supposed to be understood as a response to particular environmental stimuli, for instance, loss of a job or exposure to excessive noise. However, according to research that was conducted by Holmes and Rehe (1967). The Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) method was dissatisfied to the research since most of the events listed, they relatively rarely occur in anyone’s life. The researchers could use a scale that could reflect the greater degree of the daily variation experience of people in levels of the stress they are experiencing. Their approach measures one aspect of stress that causes ...

Introduction

The topic of occupational stress is important as it helps us coexist with other employees. Also by understanding its causes and effects we can become more productive both in the workplace and at home. This is because stress resulting from poor or unfavorable working conditions is often unknowingly projected by individuals to their families. Severe cases of stress may also trigger coronary heart disease and consequently the individual's family and private life suffer greatly. It is, therefore, important to study the subject of occupational stress to create more awareness in employees. Occupational stress refers to the physical, emotional ...

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Basic structure of the client system

Important survival factors found in humanity are present in the central core or basic structure that forms the five variables of the client system consisting of genetic or innate features having strengths and weaknesses of the system. Five variables in the basic structure are physiological, psychological, developmental, sociocultural, and spiritual.

Five variables in the client system

The client system has five interrelated variables with varying levels of improvement and various dynamic styles and possibilities. Physiological variables are related to structures of the body and their functions; Psychological variables are related to processes of the mind and related environmental influences, both from the inside as ...

Communication with families and critically ill

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Introduction

Critical illness is a lived experience that is sudden and often than not, affects the sufferer or the patient and the family. The condition of the patient throws the family of the patient into a crisis. The critically ill patients normally fall into a situation of total confusion whether at the beginning of their illness or after they have been treated, and they are emerging from a comma. The confusion that they have can be lasting or momentary. The confusion and the various stress levels normally affect the communication between the critically ill patients and their ...

Elwood's lack of motivation to drive his ambitions in life not only puts him at risk of sticking with his taxi job rather than explore his talents but also strains his relationship with his girlfriend, Donna. The weird habits that Donna notices in Elwood are a result of failing to completely recover to the childhood trauma of losing his elder brother Jake. According to Donna, Elwood no longer seems to care about improving his future by hard-work and determination. This inability to show concern and care causes her to get alarmed and worried. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...

In this paper, the study "A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders” published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will be discussed. First, an overview of the study will be presented. Second, key strengths and weakness of the study’s methods and procedures, as well as its results, will be argued. Third, a recommendation for how the study could be improved will be stated, and finally a conclusion will sum up the results of this review. The study’s goal is to expand on existing research on stress. The study examines both interpersonal and non interpersonal ...

Introduction

Cortisol is a steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands located on top of kidneys and is usually released in response to particular circumstances and events, including acute stress and waking up in the morning. It significantly affects the body’s processes and helps its effort to maintain homeostasis (Aronson, 2009). It also plays a major role in human nutrition, as it helps regulate energy by determining which type of substrate (and which amount), protein, fat, or carbohydrate, the body needs to meet its demand efficiently. If cortisol stress hormone is increased for long periods of time and becomes chronically elevated, ...

Stress has been a common “illness” among professional’s alike and ordinary people. Several have been claiming that they are stress out. This claim has resulted to numerous drugs that are available over the counter to reduce stress. In addition, stress reliever sessions and classes have also been put up by psychologists or even gym instructors just for the purpose of reducing the stress that a person is feeling. What is stress and what causes it? Psychologically speaking, stress is defined as a reaction to a stimulus that can affect both the physical and mental equilibrium. As a result, it can cause numerous disturbances ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is currently defined as a trauma-related or stressor-related disorder in the 5th edition of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). It is caused by any traumatic event, but catastrophic events, physical abuse, and combat engagement in war are the most prevalent causes of PTSD (Sullivan, 2012). The symptoms usually start showing three months after an individual experiences a traumatic event, and they need to last for at least one month before an official diagnosis can be made. The most common symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. avoidance of situations associated with ...

“Stress can be controlled or eliminated by doing some vital actions; figure out where the stress is coming from, consider things that are controllable, managing time and doing things with passion, create a toolbox of techniques, preserve good boundaries and realize that there is a difference between worrying and caring, and embrace mistakes.” People are stress when they feel that the things around them become complicated. They keep on thinking whether they can get through the pressure they experienced. Their minds are too busy thinking about how to control or eliminate stress in a simple way, if not in a very complex manner ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Common Risk Factors A common risk factor associated with PTSD is gender. Females are more likely to suffer PTSD. According to Bhattacharya, Cross and Bhugra (2010), the rates of PTSD in women are twice that of men. Further, girls are more vulnerable to post-trauma reactions (Koltveit, Lange-Nielsen, Thabet, Dyregrov, Pallesen Johnsen, and Laberg, 2012). Stressor of the trauma also is a common risk factor. The exposure and magnitude of the stressor is likely to influence the occurrence of PTSD. Additionally, stressors may trigger PTSD in cases where there are multiple life losses, criminal violence, sexual assault, and graphic scenes ...

Betty Neuman was born in the year 1924 in Lowel, Ohio. Neuman received an RN Diploma from the Peoples Hospital School of Nursing in Akron, Ohio. Later on, she moved to the state of California where she gained a lot of experience working as a hospital staff and later on as a head nurse, an industrial nurse, a school nurse and later as a clinical instructor in critical care, communicable disease and medical surgical nursing. Neuman enrolled at the University of California, Lo Angeles (UCLA) where she majored in public health and psychology. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and in ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a modern name given to a disease with a long history. One of the first clinical papers describing the malady was from Jacob DaCosta in 1871 that described soldiers with what he termed an “irritable heart” (Kaplan, 2007, p. 613). The disease is often marked by autonomic dysfunction and cardiac symptoms. Because of these symptoms, following the American Civil War, physicians termed it “soldier’s heart.” As the Freudian school of psychoanalysis grew in stature the disease became “traumatic neurosis.” Following the First World War, the condition was referred to as shell shock and was attributed to traumatic ...

The Relationship between Motivation, Organizational stressors and Job Satisfaction in the U.S.A Banking Industry

INTRODUCTION

Background The central role played by the banking sector in the American economy cannot be overemphasised. The banking industry is one of the largest industries in any country with far reaching implications on all other sectors. The banking industry is very competitive with a huge share of the market controlled by few players. Commercial banks offer similar services. Therefore, the only competitive advantage a commercial bank can have over other commercial banks is having highly motivated personnel that deliver outstanding services to the bank’s customers. ...

Review of “Resilience and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors Assessed via Diary Methods” by David M. Almeida. In his article “Resilience and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors Assessed via Diary Methods,” David Almeida defines daily stressors as “routine challenges of day-to-day living, such as everyday concerns of work, caring for other people, and commuting between work and home. They may also refer to more unexpected small occurrences – such as arguments with children, unexpected work deadlines, and malfunctioning computers – that disrupt daily life” (Almeida, 2005). Almeida also distinguishes between these daily stressors and major events that occur in peoples’ lives. The ...

Stress has a significant impact on student performance and is one of the top determinants of whether a student will stick it out throughout the program and matriculate. The nursing curriculum is known to be one of the most stressful programs, in part by the type of student that enrolls in these programs: individuals with families to support and limited hours for study. Another stressor for nursing students over and above their academic load is the mandatory clinical experience, which has been reported by a significant majority of nursing students to exert the greatest stress. Thus, the clinical environment in which ...

Psychology: Stress Writing

Stress is a regular feeling created when humans react to particular events that confront in life. It is the body’s mechanism of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with much focus, strength and heightened alertness.

Primary appraisal on one hand refers to the case where an individual evaluates two distinct aspects of a given situation, which are the motivational relevance and the motivational congruence. In the aspect of motivational relevance evaluation, an individual attempts to ascertain the relevance of the situation to the individual needs. In evaluating the motivational congruence, the individual evaluates the consistency or inconsistency ...

Introduction

Adjustment disorder refers to the condition in which an individual is unable to cope or adjust with an identified stressor. It can occur in either children or adults. This paper looks at the situation in relation to children. It is illustrative to note that an adjustment disorder is an emotional condition that essentially affects one’s temperament, conduct or emotional balance. A victim suffering from adjustment disorder often demonstrates distinct characteristics that were previously absent from his normal conduct. These include; demonstration of depression, anxiety, irritability, among other self-destructive characteristics. There are various types of adjustment disorders.

Types of adjustment disorders

Adjustment disorders ...

This is a research paper that aims at reviewing Mrs. Terry Schiav case. It considers the views of a number of people who are familiar with Mrs. T. Schiav’s case. This included a friend of mine and our local hospital administrator. Their views and opinions are employed to write up a recommendation and finally a resolution concerning the ethical issues that were highlighted during this case. Terry Schiav was thirty seven years old when she had a sudden cardiac arrest. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Schindler. On further diagnosis, it was noted that she had abnormally low potassium levels. The ...

In psychology, coping is a steady cognitive and behavioral effort in responding to stress in a person’s life. It can also be defined as a conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal matters by looking for a way to minimize stress in ones life. The easiest way that has been identified for dealing with stress is by keeping fit health wise, eating well, a lot of exercises and having adequate sleep. When one is fit health wise, they will be able to cope and reduce stress in their lives because their mind and body muscles are relaxed. Coping responses are sometimes managed by ...

Literature Review

Autism is defined as a pervasive disorder in development which is characterized by difficulty in communication, relating with other people, and in understanding abstract arguments. This condition is evident from early childhood and as a result it is the parent or guardian of the autistic child who is the caregiver. It is essential to note that to most of these parents autism is a relatively new condition and so dealing with the behaviors of this condition is hard. Keok (8) indicates that having an autistic child has a considerable impact on the psychosocial wellness of parents. This is mainly because the parent is ...

There are some tabloids that report on events such as “Eighty-Year-Old Mother Gives

Birth to Twins.” You’ll find them at newsstands and markets. Recently, I spotted a front-page headline, “The Ultimate Secret to Stress Reduction.” For 50 cents how could I go wrong? Here is what I learned.

A fellow in Canton, Ohio, buys an enormous amount of Jell-O. When he is distressed,

he puts it into his bathtub, gets in, and lies there until it sets. He assures readers that it works. His worries are removed; no more troubles; aches and pains gone. Well, I didn’t try it. It made for amusing reading, though. Who knows? It probably did help him. The lesson from this scenario is simply, What works for one ...

Stress and Stress Management

Abstract Stress has become a major era that is affecting our everyday life. This situation comes about normally when the body is rising to a challenge or facing some difficulties. In this paper we intend to look at the bad and good stress and analyze them critically. The paper also intends to look at the evolution of stress and how it has affected people since its discovery. This will help the readers to get a clear concept of what stress is, what causes it and how we can prevent and reduce the stress. The paper will also analyze on the various ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Criminal Behavior

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is described as “the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor” (Baker & Alfonso, 2006, p. 1) where a traumatic stressor must involve threatened or actual serious injury or death “or other threat to one’s physical integrity” (Baker & Alfonso, 2006, p. 1). The event can be directly experienced or witnessed, although it can also be about a person learning of a traumatic event that violently or unexpectedly occurred to a close associate or a family member. Examples of such events include growing up in an environment in the inner-city, experiencing a natural disaster, military combat, ...

Overcoming Anxiety

Anxiety is an everyday thing that almost everyone undergoes the difference only being in their severity. Anxiety, which mainly affects adults like me, can be loosely defined as a state of worrying over a particular thing, situation or event; a stressor. Anxiety is usually characterized by uneasiness, fear or worry. When these characteristics extend over time and intensity, the individual may suffer from anxiety disorder (Davison, 2008). While anxiety is considered a normal part of life; age, occupation and environmental factors are some of the predisposing factors to people suffering from anxiety and worse still, anxiety disorder. Adults are more prone to suffer ...

Managing Criminal Justice Organizations

Officer Joe is suffering from low self esteem that is most likely resultant from stress. To compensate for this the officer has turned to the noted behavior as a form of cover up for their problems. This behavior portrayed by Officer Joe leads to lack of motivation in their job, which consequently means that they do not feel obliged to follow any orders and hence their lack of co-operation. The stressor in this case may be Joe’s family or even something at the workplace. The probability of the stressor being at the work place is high based on Joe’ ...

Abstract

Affecting about 3-10% of all children, ADHD is among the most frequently occurring Mental Health Childhood Disorders. The methodology utilized in the study is systematic literature review. Research articles were searched from two online data bases that is, Medline and Ovid. The objectives of the review center around three aspects related to the mothers of children who have been diagnosed with ADHD. The review focuses on one describing the variety of stresses experienced by mothers after having their children diagnosed with ADHD. More importantly, it illuminates the policies and procedures available to support these mothers specifically in regard to ...