STRESS AND TRAUMA

This course helps understanbd the nature of stressors, stress reactions, behaviroal and health related consequences of stress, particularly in the context of natural disasters. Specifically the course will focus understanding and explaining the common and uncommon life events that are often expereinced as stressful and in extreme cases traumatic by most indiviudals. Variations in stress reactions to these events across categories of indviduals which make some of them more vulberable than others. Mapping common and idiosyncratic behavioral and bodily reactions, health and mental health consequences of the same.