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Military Suicide: A Former Army Psychiatrist’s Veterans Day Reflections
By Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
TIME. Nov. 10, 2011
Military Suicide: A Former Army Psychiatrist’s Veterans Day Reflections
Many Soldiers also develop a sense of fatalism when around frequent death and destruction.
Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy development. While moderate, short-lived stress responses in the body can promote growth, toxic stress is the strong, unrelieved activation of the body’s stress management system in the absence of protective adult support. Without caring adults to buffer children, the unrelenting stress caused by extreme poverty, neglect, abuse, or severe maternal depression can weaken the architecture of the developing brain, with long-term consequences for learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.
This video is part three of a three-part series titled “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. The series depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse. Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation.
Also from the “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” Series
1. Experiences Build Brain Architecture: http://youtu.be/VNNsN9IJkws
2. Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry: http://youtu.be/m_5u8-QSh6A
For more information, please visit: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/re
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Behavioral Medicine: A Key to Better Health
Karolinska Institutet. November 2016
https://www.edx.org/course/behavioral-medicine-key-better-health-kix-kibehmedx-1
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from:
Behavioral Medicine: A Key to Better Health
Karolinska Institutet. November 2016
https://www.edx.org/course/behavioral-medicine-key-better-health-kix-kibehmedx-1
from:
Behavioral Medicine: A Key to Better Health
Karolinska Institutet. November 2016
https://www.edx.org/course/behavioral-medicine-key-better-health-kix-kibehmedx-1
Nurses Say Stress Interferes With Caring For Their Patients
April 15, 2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/15/474200707/nurses-say-stress-interferes-with-caring-for-their-patients
a 2007 study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine found that 24 percent of ICU nurses and 14 percent of general nurses tested positive for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Nursing has long been considered one of the most stressful professions, according to a review of research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2012. Nurses and researchers say it comes down to organizational problems in hospitals worldwide. That includes cuts in staffing …
Alleviating Job Stress in Nurses
Rashaun Roberts, PhD; Paula L. Grubb, PhD; James W. Grosch, MBA, PhD
June 25, 2012
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/765974
When a person is alone or holding a stranger’s hand as she anticipates the shock, the regions of the brain that process danger, quote, “light up like a Christmas tree.” But when holding the hand of a trusted person, the brain grows quiet.
JAMES COAN: And what we think happens is having a friend with you alters the perception of that threat.
friends are key to our survival, not just emotionally but biologically.
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