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Mental Health Week 10 Exam Questions
and Answers
What are the 2 main stress responses? - Ans:✔✔-fight or flight
Describe Hans Selye general adaptation stress theory - Ans:✔✔-1. alarm or acute stress stage
2. resistance or adaptation stage
3. exhaustion stage
What are the 2 psychological reactions to stress? which is destructive to health and which is beneficial? -
Ans:✔✔-1. distress: destructive
2. eustress: beneficial and motivates energy
Describe what occurs during the neurotransmitter stress response - Ans:✔✔-1. increased serotonin
synthesiis
2. serotonin receptor sites and brains ability to utilize serotonin may be impaired
Describe what occurs during the immune stress response - Ans:✔✔-1. interaction between nervous and
immune systems doing the alarm phase (1st phase)
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2. immune stress response negatively impacts the body ability to produce protective factors
What are the 5 major domains of traditional/complementary/alternative medicines? - Ans:✔✔-•Whole
medical systems
•Mind-body-spirit approaches
•Biologically-based approaches
•Manipulative approaches
•Energy therapies
Describe traditional indigenous medicine - Ans:✔✔-•Spiritual / ceremonial (sweat lodges)
•Vibrational (drumming, chanting)
•Traditional medicines (native herbs)
Describe Ayurvedic medicine - Ans:✔✔-•"Science of life" - emphasizes personal responsibility for health
Holistic, promotes prevention, natural treatments
Describe traditional chinese medicine - Ans:✔✔-•Acupuncture, acupressure, tai chi, herbs,
transcendental meditation
Describe homeopathy - Ans:✔✔-•Based on the Law of Similars - "Like cures like"
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Mental Health Week 10 Exam Questions
and Answers
What are the 2 main stress responses? - Ans:✔✔-fight or flight
Describe Hans Selye general adaptation stress theory - Ans:✔✔-1. alarm or acute stress stage
2. resistance or adaptation stage
3. exhaustion stage
What are the 2 psychological reactions to stress? which is destructive to health and which is beneficial? -
Ans:✔✔-1. distress: destructive
2. eustress: beneficial and motivates energy
Describe what occurs during the neurotransmitter stress response - Ans:✔✔-1. increased serotonin
synthesiis
2. serotonin receptor sites and brains ability to utilize serotonin may be impaired
Describe what occurs during the immune stress response - Ans:✔✔-1. interaction between nervous and
immune systems doing the alarm phase (1st phase)
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, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
2. immune stress response negatively impacts the body ability to produce protective factors
What are the 5 major domains of traditional/complementary/alternative medicines? - Ans:✔✔-•Whole
medical systems
•Mind-body-spirit approaches
•Biologically-based approaches
•Manipulative approaches
•Energy therapies
Describe traditional indigenous medicine - Ans:✔✔-•Spiritual / ceremonial (sweat lodges)
•Vibrational (drumming, chanting)
•Traditional medicines (native herbs)
Describe Ayurvedic medicine - Ans:✔✔-•"Science of life" - emphasizes personal responsibility for health
Holistic, promotes prevention, natural treatments
Describe traditional chinese medicine - Ans:✔✔-•Acupuncture, acupressure, tai chi, herbs,
transcendental meditation
Describe homeopathy - Ans:✔✔-•Based on the Law of Similars - "Like cures like"
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