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| personality pattern characterized by time urgency, hostility, and competitiveness; may have chronic hyperarousal which negatively affects the heart |
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| Guided Mastery Techniques |
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| provide people with explicit info about how to engage in positive health-related behaviors and w opportunities to engage in these behaviors in increasingly challenging situations |
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| group of techniques designed to help people change bodily processes by learning to identify signs that the processes are going awry and then learning ways of controlling the process; helpful for migraines, chronic pain, and hypertension |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
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| anxiety disorder characterized by 1)repeated mental images of experiencing a traumatic event, 2)emotional numbing and detachment, 3)hypervigilance and chronic arousal |
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| symptoms similar to PTSD but occurs within one month of a stressor and is less than four weeks in duration; often involves dissociative symptoms |
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| eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) |
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| highly controversial therapy for trauma survivors in which a client attends to the image of the trauma, thoughts about the trauma, and the physical sensations of anxiety while the therapist quickly moves a finger back and forth in front of the client's eyes to elicit a series of repeated, rapid, jerky, side to side eye movements (lateral) |
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| depressive or anxiety symptoms or antisocial behavior occurs within three months of a stressor; differ from PTSD and acute stress disorder in that the stressor can be of any severity (where PTSD is extreme traumas) |
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