Chapter 13: Health, stress, and coping Stress: response to events that threaten our physical or psychological functioning. Biomedical model: biological factors alone can lead to illness.     General Adaptation Syndrome:        Alarm stage: body mobilizes resources        Resistance stage: body strives to maintain high level of activity        Exhaustion stage: coping resources are depleted => probably illness Biopsychosocial model: biological, psychological, and social factors all play a role in health and illness.     Primary appraisal: assess the threat to well being.     Secondary appraisal: evaluate coping resources and assess their potential effectiveness.     Health belief model: our willingness to seek medical help depends on:        Our perceptions that a threat to our health exists        Our beliefs that particular behaviors will effectively reduce the threat and that they are worthwhile.    Information-Motivation-Behavior skills: people are more likely to perform preventive behaviors if they:      Know what causes the disease and what they can do to avoid it,      Are motivated to perform preventive behaviors and omit risky ones,      Possess the skills necessary to perform the relevant preventive behaviors. Things to take into consideration to design a stress reduction/prevention program: Target group, gain/loss framing, links between behaviors/beliefs/attitudes and health, motivation, strategies to prevent/reduce stress.