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Teaching the Elderly STRESS REDUCTION
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 19911. Psychological or physiological stressors cause changes within the body through the action of the hypothalamus. 2. There are several techniques for stress management, including progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery. 3. The nurse can teach stress management techniques to the elderly using teaching modifications to respond to changes due to ...
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The stress of intruding: Reduction by chlordiazepoxide
Physiology & Behavior, 1984Rats placed as intruders in a long-established colony showed significant elevations of plasma corticosterone after 10-20 minutes of intruding. This rise was prevented by 5 days pretreatment with chlordiazepoxide (5 mg/kg). The rats resident in the colony had significantly higher basal corticosterone concentrations compared with singly housed rats but ...
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Stress Reduction in the Family
1982Understanding how to overcome stress on the job is important, but there is also another area of our lives in which stress often plays a crucial role. Indeed, for many the tensions and stresses produced within the family can be just as strong as, if not stronger than, those produced at work.
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Assembly stress for the reduction of stress concentration
Mechanics Research Communications, 2006Abstract A systematic study utilizing the experimental method of reflected photoelasticity was undertaken to determine the effects of assembly stress on the stresses around circular holes under uniaxial tension. The assembly stresses are the result of the contact and bearing stresses between the bolts and the member.
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Stress reduction in everyday wearables
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2019In this position paper, we discuss the role of smart garments for stress reduction. Stress management plays a vital role in healthy living. Stress is an essential component of human life, but too much of it is a risk factor contributing to problems with concentration and a wide variety of illnesses including hypertension, heart problems, disorders of ...
Brigitte van der Lugt, Loe Feijs
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1982
Although rest, exercise, and proper diet can increase resistance and enhance the body’s tolerance for stress, such coping tactics cannot eliminate or even dramatically reduce many of the stress-producing situations that each of us encounters every day. Take Art, for example. The sales manager for a large carpet firm, Art has found his work increasingly
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Although rest, exercise, and proper diet can increase resistance and enhance the body’s tolerance for stress, such coping tactics cannot eliminate or even dramatically reduce many of the stress-producing situations that each of us encounters every day. Take Art, for example. The sales manager for a large carpet firm, Art has found his work increasingly
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Stress Management in the Process of Occupational Stress Reduction
Journal of Managerial Psychology, 1987A growing number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of worksite stress management training for reducing worker psychophysiological arousal and subjective reports of anxiety, depression, and somatic complaints. The role of stress management in the larger context of occupational stress reduction, however, has not been addressed.
Lawrence R. Murphy, Joseph J. Hurrell
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The Neurobiology of Meditation and Stress Reduction
2018Meditation is a complex mental process that involves changes in cognition, sensory perception, emotions, hormones, and autonomic activity. Several brain regions are involved in these practices, particularly as they relate to improvements in brain function and psychological parameters, including the thalamus, frontal lobes, limbic system, and parietal ...
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
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Nursing stress and stress reduction in palliative care
Palliative Medicine, 1990Nurses in palliative care face particular challenges related to their work with terminally ill patients and their families. Several studies have suggested that workplace stress is a health risk to staff in this specific nursing situation. This study reports the results of a short educational programme for nurses in palliative care designed to identify
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