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| Physical and psychological response to internal or external stressors |
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| General adaptation syndrome |
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| Three stage physiological response that appears regardless of the stressor that is encountered |
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| Tendency toward easily aroused hostility, impatience, sense of time urgency, and competitive achievement striving |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| Psychological disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the trauma to mind |
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| Facing a stressor and working to overcome it |
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| Finding a new or creative way to think about a stressor that reduces its threat |
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| Stress inoculation training |
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| A therapy that helps people to cope with stressful situations by developing positive ways to think about the situation |
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| Technique for reducing tension by consciously relaxing muscles of the body |
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| Clinically significant psychological or physiological response to a therapeutically inert substance or procedure |
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| Exercise of voluntary control over the self to bring the self into line with preferred standards |
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