emotional stress
31Emotional support animal — An emotional support animal (ESA) is one who provides theraputic benefit to its owner through companionship and affection. Emotional support animals are not specially trained to ameliorate disability as psychiatric service dogs are. They require… …
32stress — [[t]strɛs[/t]] n. 1) importance or significance attached to a thing; emphasis: to lay stress upon good manners[/ex] 2) phn emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a speech sound, syllable, or word as a result of special effort in… …
33stress portfolio — (STRES port.foh.lee.oh) n. The collection of events and situations that cause stress in a person s life. Example Citation: Thanks to economic turmoil abroad, gyrating U.S. markets and stepped up corporate retrenchment, a new wave of job angst is… …
34Emotional distress — Mental distress or anxiety suffered as a response to a sudden, severe, and saddening experience. [ Mount Isa Mines Ltd v Pusey (1970) 125 CLR 383] Emotional distress may refer to:* Law of torts: ** Intentional infliction of emotional distress **… …
35stress — 1. noun /stɹɛs/ a) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ Go easy on him, hes been under a lot of stress lately. b)… …
36stress reaction — any of the biological reactions to adverse stimuli, physical, mental, or emotional, internal or external, that tend to disturb the organism s homeostasis; should these compensating reactions, physiological or psychological, be inadequate or… …
37Emotional Freedom Technique — L’Emotional Freedom Technique (littéralement : « Techniques de liberté émotionnelle »), abrégé EFT, est une psychothérapie alternative fondée aux États Unis en 1993 par un ingénieur du nom de Gary Craig aujourd hui à la retraite.… …
38stress — stres n. emphasis, importance; accent, emphasis placed on a syllable of a word; strain, tension, pressure; condition caused by physical or emotional strain v. subject to stress or strain; emphasize, accentuate …
39stress — noun 1》 pressure or tension exerted on a material object. ↘Physics the magnitude of this measured in units of force per unit area. 2》 a state of mental, emotional, or other strain. 3》 particular emphasis. ↘emphasis given to a syllable or… …
40Chronic stress — is the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period over which an individual perceives he or she has no control. It involves an endocrine system response in which occurs a release of corticosteroids. If this continues for a long …
