Category: E

Placebo and other nonspecific factors that influence outcomes in intervention studies.  

Selye’s third and final stage of the general adaptation syndrome characterized by the body’s organ systems failing from chronic stress exposure.  

Cognitive tasks associated with memory and higher cortical functions such as working memory, planning, and scheduling.  

Defining a person through culture, language, or national origin.  

A characteristic of an altered or meditative state in which the waking self or ego becomes more permeable to unconscious thoughts.  

The stressor or the emotions it evokes are dealt with directly.  

The body’s state when it is activating or using its energy reserves such as during the fight-or-flight response.  

An efficacious therapeutic approach for a particular disorder.  

Managing the distress caused by the problem.  

One of Maslach’s three dimensions of burnout characterized by feeling emotionally depleted, drained, and lacking in emotional resources.