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The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is delighted to welcome Nikita Gupta, our guest speaker for the September Resilience Speaker Series, presenting “Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Others: Minimizing Burnout and Replenishing Empathy.” The presentation will offer a space for participants to reflect on burnout and compassion fatigue, and how they are experienced in our body and nervous system. Participants will explore and practice body-based strategies for restoration and the...

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is pleased to announce that Wallace E. Dixon, Ph.D., Founding Director, has been selected, along with Jane Childers, Trinity University, to edit the special P/ACEs issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Please see the website here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-experimental-child-psychology/about/call-for-papers Dr. Dixon is looking for some action editors and reviewers. If you are interested, have questions or...

Based on the epidemiological data, we can see that the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 in the world, with 13,386,255 cases. Furthermore, there were 8613,630 cases and 204,873 during the pandemic, while there were a total of 1529,691 cases and 29,313 deaths in rural areas (Diego et al., 2021). If left untreated, the number of cases and death will continue to rise, especially in rural communities since they have the lowest healthcare resources. For this intervention, I...

For PHC6541, this Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention targets undergraduate students attending the University of Florida during hurricane season, as research indicates this population is particularly vulnerable at that time, such as lacking reliable transportation and living several hours or more away from home (Simms et al., 2013). The proposed Instagram account, @ufdisasterpreparedness, seeks to build resilience by strengthening and connecting undergraduate students...

It’s hard to escape the fact the employers of all kinds are struggling to engage and retain staff. Pre-pandemic, top-down strategies aren’t working to address these issues, and leaders need to think and act differently—to practice empathy, inclusivity, mindfulness, and gratitude—but it is difficult to know where to begin. In Social Current's upcoming webinars on building a resilient workforce , we will delve into core strategies and provide concrete action steps for supporting staff. Join us...

By Lily Ramsey, Photo: from article, News-Medical, July 31, 2023 A global study co-led by researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School has found one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Professor John McGrath from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute, Professor Ronald Kessler from Harvard Medical School, and their colleagues from 27 other countries, analyzed data from more than 150,000 adults across 29 countries between 2001 and 2022,...

Livestock is a front in the effort to reduce agriculture’s carbon emissions — cattle, in particular, burp up huge amounts of the climate-warming gas methane. | Mario Tama/Getty Images By Garrett Downs, Politico, August 7, 2023 President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Department is pulling off a feat unimaginable a mere decade ago: gaining wide support within the conservative farming industry for a program to fight climate change. The winning formula involves paying farmers to test out green...

The Goucher College library in Towson, Md., in 1953. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) By Alexandra Petri, The Washington Post, August 7, 2023 This was not always a place of punishment . People used to come here on purpose. Students, like yourself. Back then, it was called a library. These things on the shelves gathering dust were once prized. Sometimes, they were arranged by a special code called Dewey Decimal. They were passed excitedly from hand to hand, and we were...

Community health worker Hawa Abraham in her office in the Bronx, N.Y. Sarah Stacke for STAT By Ambar Castillo, STAT, August 7, 2023 A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!”— to the clinicians and administrative staff bunched up nearby. Hawa Abraham, not one or the other, stood among them. It was going to be another busy day at the clinic, with...

A father helps his son steady a firearm during the National Rifle Association's annual convention in May 2022, in Houston, Texas. (BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES) By Jennifer Gerson, The 19th*, August 3, 2023 Young Americans who identify strongly with gun use and gun ownership often hold male supremacist beliefs and racial resentment. The young people who are most closely associated with guns are more likely to be White people who have worse symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to new...

In medical terminology, “evidenced-based” is a gold star endorsement awarded to recurrent standards of proof that arise from comparison studies of a specific treatment protocol or prevention. Is it possible to validate NARM’s efficacy using those same evidence-based standards? Should we? In this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily is joined by Salman Alawadi, a NARM practitioner and Ph.D. candidate in Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at the University of Miami, for a fascinating...

As American returns to school, “History. Culture. Trauma.” podcast hosts Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, continue with their series of education-related, back-to-school podcasts. The second installment features an encore episode award-winning “relentless” school nurse, Robin Cogan , MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN. “In recent years, COVID-19, school shootings, affirmation of the identity of LGBTQ students, institutional racism, critical race...