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Also known as the skeletal muscles; muscles that facilitate voluntary movement. Striated muscle, also known as skeletal muscle, encompasses the muscles associated with the skeletal system as well as the heart muscle.  

A multimodal program designed to teach participants a variety of strategies for dealing with stress.  

Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification training program designed to prepare individuals for stressful future encounters or treat current excess stress.  

Novaco’s multicomponent program designed to build coping abilities and skills for use in stressful situations and to manage anger.  

Organizational assessments designed to identify organizational stress issues and areas.  

The fourth step in the demand-withdraw pattern when the withdrawing person withholds attention and puts up a wall that blocks communication and cooperation as a way to punish the demanding person.  

An anxiety disorder characterized by feeling intense and exaggerated fears of specific objects or situations; does not include phobias of public places or social contexts.  

The propensity of negative emotions in Fredrickson’s broaden-and-build model to narrow behavioral options.  

Refers to social interactions within a network of social relationships that are a source of stress because they drain resources or provide assistance in an unhelpful manner.  

Personality characteristics that represent one’s virtues such as curiosity, integrity, fairness, self-control, spirituality, forgiveness, and humor that are measured by the Values in Action Scale.