Social belonging, compassion, and kindness: Key ingredients for fostering resilience, recovery, and growth from the COVID-19 pandemic

Anxiety Stress & Coping, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 35(1), P. 1 - 8

Published: Aug. 9, 2021

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to increases in anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, burnout, grief, and suicide, particularly for healthcare workers vulnerable individuals. In some places, due low vaccination rates new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerging, psychosocial strategies remaining resilient during an ongoing multi-faceted stressor are still needed. Elsewhere, thanks successful campaigns, countries have begun reopening but questions remain regarding how best recover, adjust, grow following the collective loss caused by pandemic.

Language: Английский

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Social Safety Theory: Understanding social stress, disease risk, resilience, and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Current Opinion in Psychology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 45, P. 101299 - 101299

Published: Jan. 19, 2022

Many of life's most impactful experiences involve either social safety (e.g., acceptance, affiliation, belonging, inclusion) or threat conflict, isolation, rejection, exclusion). According to Social Safety Theory, these greatly impact human health and behavior because a fundamental goal the brain immune system is keep body biologically safe. To achieve this crucial goal, threats likely gained ability activate anticipatory neural-immune responses that would have historically benefited reproduction survival; presence safety, in turn, dampened responses. Viewing positive negative through lens affords based evolutionary account for why certain stressors are particularly impactful. It also provides an integrated, multi-level framework investigating biopsychosocial roots psychopathology, disparities, aging, longevity, interpersonal cognition behavior. Ultimately, work has potential inform new strategies reducing disease risk promoting resilience.

Language: Английский

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Antidepressant mechanisms of ketamine: a review of actions with relevance to treatment-resistance and neuroprogression

Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 17

Published: Aug. 8, 2023

Concurrent with recent insights into the neuroprogressive nature of depression, ketamine shows promise in interfering several factors, and has been suggested to reverse neuropathological patterns seen depression. These come at a time great need for novel approaches, as prevalence is rising current treatment options remain inadequate large number people. The rapidly growing literature on ketamine's antidepressant potential yielded multiple proposed mechanisms action, many which have implications recently elucidated aspects depressive pathology. This review aims provide reader an understanding pathology how act it. Literature was identified through PubMed Google Scholar, reference lists retrieved articles. When reviewing evidence pathology, picture emerges four elements interacting each other facilitate progressive worsening, namely stress, inflammation, neurotoxicity neurodegeneration. Ketamine acts all these levels rapid potent reductions symptoms. Converging suggests that works increase stress resilience stress-induced dysfunction, modulate systemic inflammation neuroinflammation, attenuate neurotoxic processes glial synaptogenesis rather than Still, much remains be revealed about research lacking durability effect. findings discussed herein calls more longitudinal approaches when determining efficacy its relation could relevant considerations clinical implementation.

Language: Английский

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Human social genomics: Concepts, mechanisms, and implications for health

Lifestyle Medicine, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 4(2)

Published: Feb. 25, 2023

Abstract The exciting field of human social genomics provides an evolutionarily informed, multilevel framework for understanding how positive and negative social–environmental experiences affect the genome to impact lifelong health, well‐being, behavior, longevity. In this review, we first summarize common patterns socially influenced changes in expression pro‐inflammatory antiviral immune response genes (e.g., Conserved Transcriptional Response Adversity), psychological, neural, cell signaling pathways by which factors regulate gene expression. Second, examine these effects are moderated genetic polymorphisms specific types that most strongly health. Third, identify psychosocial interventions have been found Finally, discuss promising opportunities future research on topic health care providers can use information improve patient well‐being.

Language: Английский

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Workplace Belonging of Women Healthcare Professionals Relates to Likelihood of Leaving

Journal of Healthcare Leadership, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: Volume 15, P. 273 - 284

Published: Oct. 1, 2023

Purpose: There is a high rate of attrition professionals from healthcare institutions, which threatens the economic viability these institutions and quality care they provide to patients. Women face particular challenges that may lower their sense belonging in workplace. We sought test hypothesis workplace women relates likelihood expect leave institution. Methods: Participants continuing education course on women's leadership skills health completed survey about experiences leaving institution within next 2 years. An association between (measured by cumulative number factors experienced, scale 0– 10) 5-point Likert scale) was evaluated using ordinal logistic regression. The relative importance predicting assessed dominance analysis. Results: Ninety-nine percent participants were women, 63% clinicians. Sixty-one reported at least slight Greater found be associated with significant reduction after accounting for years having worked current institution, underrepresented minority status, interaction latter two covariates. factor most important belief there an opportunity thrive professionally Belonging involving feeling able freely share thoughts opinions also relatively leaving. Conclusion: relate significantly reduced Our findings suggest leaders organizations might reduce fostering attention empowering professional thriving creating culture values open communication. Keywords: gender equity, diversity, turnover, retention, workforce,

Language: Английский

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