physical integrity

(noun)

The inviolability of the physical body; emphasises on the importance of personal autonomy and the self-determination of human beings over their own bodies.

Related Terms

Examples of physical integrity in the following topics:

  • The Endocrine System and Stress

    • Stressors can come in many forms, from immediate physical threats like an angry bear, to social threats like an angry friend.
    • In experimental studies in rats, a distinction is often made between social stress and physical stress, but both types activate the HPA axis, albeit through different pathways.
    • Stressors that are uncontrollable, threaten physical integrity, or involve trauma tend to have a high, flat profile of cortisol release (with lower-than-normal levels of cortisol in the morning and higher-than-normal levels in the evening) resulting in a high overall level of daily cortisol release.

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    • Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one's ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved with that experience.
    • Traumatizing, stressful events can have a long-term impact on mental and physical health.
    • The trauma overwhelms the victim's ability to cope psychologically, and memories of the event trigger anxiety and physical stress responses, including the release of cortisol.
    • To be diagnosed with PTSD according to the DSM-5 (2013), a person must first have been exposed to a traumatic event that involves a loss of physical integrity, or risk of serious injury or death, to self or others.
    • Many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced significant physical, emotional, and relational disruptions.

  • Relationships and Families in Adulthood

    • Acquaintance and Acquaintanceship: Becoming acquainted depends on previous relationships, physical proximity, first impressions, and a variety of other factors.
    • Coming together consists of five phases—initiating, experimentation, intensifying, integration, and bonding.
    • During initiating, first impressions are made; physical factors play a large role in this phase.
    • The integration phase involves people merging their lives together and solidifying a relationship status.

  • How Stress Impacts our Health

    • Stress not only impacts our psychological well-being, but can contribute to physical ill-health as well, such as digestive disorders, sleep disturbances, and general lack of energy.
    • Cortisol, also known as the "stress hormone", plays an integral role in our body's reaction to stress.
    • Identify the impact of both chronic and acute stress on an individual's physical and mental health.

  • Integrative Psychotherapy

    • In contrast, integrative psychotherapy attends to the relationship between theory and technique.
    • In contrast, an integrative therapist is curious about the "why and how" as well.
    • There are many approaches to integrating psychotherapeutic techniques.
    • Theoretical integration: This approach requires integrating theoretical concepts from different approaches.
    • Assimilative integration: This mode of integration favors a firm grounding in any one system of psychotherapy, but with a willingness to incorporate or assimilate, perspectives or practices from other schools.

  • Physical Development in Late Adulthood

    • Late adulthood is the stage of life from the 60s onward; it constitutes the last stage of physical change.
    • Seniors also experience a decrease in physical mobility and a loss of balance, which can result in falls and injuries.
    • The frontal lobe (which is responsible for the integration of information, judgement, and reflective thought) and corpus callosum tend to lose neurons faster than other areas, such as the temporal and occipital lobes.

  • Sensory Adaptation

    • Meissner's corpuscles are sensory triggers of physical sensations on the skin, especially areas of the skin that are sensitive to light and touch.
    • Sensory adaptation and sensitization are thought to form an integral component of human learning and personality.

  • A History of Theories of Consciousness

    • Because of occasional and sometimes substantial overlap between hypotheses, there have recently been attempts to combine perspectives to form new models that integrate components of separate viewpoints.
    • He also asserted that our consciousness is not tied to our physical bodies, and that it can survive even after our physical bodies die.
    • He set out to answer the question of how it is possible that our consciousness, a non-physical thing, can come from our bodies, a physical thing.
    • Several brain-imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.

  • Cognitive Development in Adulthood

    • Unlike our physical abilities, which peak in our mid-20s and then begin a slow decline, our cognitive abilities remain relatively steady throughout early and middle adulthood.
    • Research has found that adults who engage in mentally and physically stimulating activities experience less cognitive decline in later adult years and have a reduced incidence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia (Hertzog, Kramer, Wilson, & Lindenberger, 2009; Larson et al., 2006; Podewils et al., 2005).
    • In postformal thinking, decisions are made based on situations and circumstances, and logic is integrated with emotion as adults develop principles that depend on contexts.

  • Specific Effects of Stress: PTSD

    • Traumatizing, stressful events can have a long term impact on mental and physical health and can manifest in post-traumatic stress disorder.
    • Traumatizing, stressful events can have a long-term impact on mental and physical health.
    • The trauma overwhelms the victim's ability to cope psychologically, and memories of the event trigger anxiety and physical stress responses, including the release or cortisol.
    • Exposure to a traumatic event - The traumatic event involves the "loss of integrity" or risk or serious harm/injury or death.