Children's Resilience, Stress Levels Can Be Improved With Strength-Based Parenting. May 27, 2015 07:46 PM EDT Children may be able to draw on their personal strengths to regulate stress levels, according to a recent study.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne found that strength-based parenting builds up children's resources. These resources could help them cope with demands that lead to stress. Like Us on Facebook "While some stress such as toxic stress caused by a long lasting intense negative experience can have a debilitating effect on the wellbeing of children, not all stress is bad or damaging," Lea Waters said in a statement.
Strength-based parenting is an approach where parents deliberately identify and cultivate positive states, processes and qualities in their children. "This style of parenting adds a 'positive filter' to the way a child reacts to stress. The findings, which are detailed in the journal Psychology, offer a new avenue for research into the under explored and promising area of positive psychology parenting approaches. Nurses cut stress 40 percent with relaxation steps at work. A study by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that a workplace mindfulness-based intervention reduced stress levels of employees exposed to a highly stressful occupational environment.
Members of a surgical intensive care unit at the large academic medical center were randomized to a stress-reduction intervention or a control group. The 8-week group mindfulness-based intervention included mindfulness, gentle stretching, yoga, meditation and music conducted in the workplace. Psychological and biological markers of stress were measured one week before and one week after the intervention to see if these coping strategies would help reduce stress and burnout among participants. "Our study shows that this type of mindfulness-based intervention in the workplace could decrease stress levels and the risk of burnout," said one of the authors, Maryanna Klatt, associate clinical professor in the department of Family Medicine at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center.
Rethinking The Stress Mindset: Can You Find The Upside of Pressure? Is it true that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, or is stress always debilitating?
It’s striking how much of our emotional experience is down to interpretation. Take the physical feelings you get when you’re about to talk in public: the sweaty palms, the churning stomach and the spinning room. Isn’t that much the same physical experience you get when you’ve fallen in love? Yet one experience most would run a mile from and the other we enjoy. The difference is partly down to the meaning we give these events. But how far does this go? The Weird Things Stress Does To Your Desires and Pleasures. The ironic effect of stress on desire and pleasure.
Although stress causes a huge increase in people’s desire for an indulgence, like chocolate, ironically it does not increase the pleasure obtained, a new study finds. People under stress, researchers found, made three times as much effort to just smell some chocolate, compared with other chocolate-lovers who weren’t under stress. Eva Pool, the study’s lead author, said: Know Your Stress Type. How to make stress your friend TED. Chronic stress puts your health at risk. Chronic stress puts your health at risk Chronic stress can wreak havoc on your mind and body.
Take steps to control your stress. By Mayo Clinic Staff. Stress undermines empathic abilities in men but increases them in women. Stressed males tend to become more self-centered and less able to distinguish their own emotions and intentions from those of other people.
For women the exact opposite is true. Stress, this problem that haunts us every day, could be undermining not only our health but also our relationships with other people, especially for men. Stressed women, however, become more “prosocial,” according to new research. These are the main findings of a study carried out with the collaboration of Giorgia Silani, from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste. The study was coordinated by the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Unit of the University of Vienna and saw the participation of the University of Freiburg. "There's a subtle boundary between the ability to identify with others and take on their perspective -- and therefore be empathic -- and the inability to distinguish between self and other, thus acting egocentrically" explains Silani. Why this happens is not yet clear.
Chronic stress puts your health at risk.