Eustress and Distress: Reactivation

Jan Felicjan Terelak is Professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Head of the Chair of Stress and Labor Psychology and Director of the Inter-University Psychological Laboratory. His scientific activity focuses on the problems of extreme stress psychology, aerospace and space psychology. As a researcher, he was involved in the psychological selection of pilots flying on jet aircraft and candidates for Polish astronauts for several decades. In the conditions of natural experiment, as one of four psychologists in the 20th Century, he conducted observations in Antarctica of a 20-person group of polar explorers for a period of 15 months over adaptation to tormenting social isolation from the perspective of future astronautical flights. He also conducted unique research at the space station on redistributing work and leisure time, and biorhythm disorders.

• Theoretical foundations of stress – Biological take on stress – Medical concepts of stress – Psychological theories of stress – Psychosocial models of stress – Identification of stress factors – Physical environment – Chronobiological environment – Psychological environment – Social environment – Diagnosis of stress response – Incidental stress – Chronic stress – Traumatic stress – Coping with stress – Aspects of support in a stressful situation