Category Archives: Stress

Meichenbaum (1972) – Cognitive – Stress inoculation therapy

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Meichenbaum (1972) – Cognitive – Stress inoculation therapy

 

Background

This is the first study we will be looking at from the ‘managing stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Cognitive‘

Stress inoculation therapy is a cognitive approach to restructuring thoughts that contribute to stress and this is what Meichenbaum (1972) studied.

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Johansson et al (1978) – Work & Combined Approach

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Johansson et al (1978) “Social psychological and neuroendocrine stress reactions in highly mechanised work.” Ergonomics21.8 (1978): 583-599.

 

Background

This is the first study we will be looking at from the ’causes of stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Work‘

This also is the third study we will be looking at from the ‘measuring stress’ section of ‘Stress’, as part of your OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology course. It is further categorised into ‘Combined Approach‘

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Stress OCR A2 Health and Clinical Psychology

Stress – Health and Clinical Psychology Subsection

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Stress – Health and Clinical Psychology Subsection

 

Stress is the second subsection that we will be looking at from the Health and Clinical unit from OCR A2 Psychology.

There are three sub-sections within stress which we look at:

  1. Causes of Stress
  2. Measuring Stress
  3. Managing Stress

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