Overview

Topics include stress and anxiety disorders, resilience and coping, social relationships and stress, stress and personality, stress as a physiological response, stress add health outcomes, stress across the lifespan, psychological interventions, and prevention and wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes

• Appreciate the nature and function of social support and how it influences stress appraisal, coping response and illness outcomes.

• Critically evaluate and synthesise coping theories, definitions and understand the distinction between coping styles and coping strategies.

• Critically evaluate theories of acute and chronic stress and demonstrate an understanding of the links between stress and illness (physical or psychological).

• Demonstrate an understanding of stress and coping as a transaction between the individual and environment.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the link between interpretation and emotional expression and its influence on stress appraisal, coping response and illness outcomes (physical and psychological).