psychology Archives - Kevin Plummer, PhD https://kevinplummerphd.com/tag/psychology/ School Clinical & Consulting Services Thu, 12 May 2022 22:59:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kevinplummerphd.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-KP-SCCS-900-1-75x75.png psychology Archives - Kevin Plummer, PhD https://kevinplummerphd.com/tag/psychology/ 32 32 Fostering Resilience in Children https://kevinplummerphd.com/fostering-resilience-in-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fostering-resilience-in-children Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:37:26 +0000 https://kevinplummerphd.com/?p=3125 Welcome to this series on fostering resilience in children—the role of the family. In this series, you will have a chance to understand how a compassionate family community can help children manage stress by strengthening their stress-recovery-system. Everyone has stress. Some people have a lot of stress. The size of the stress is not the […]

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]]> Welcome to this series on fostering resilience in children—the role of the family. In this series, you will have a chance to understand how a compassionate family community can help children manage stress by strengthening their stress-recovery-system.

Everyone has stress. Some people have a lot of stress. The size of the stress is not the concern. The concern is with a lack of recovery from stress episodes. Just a persistent worry, for example, can activate a stress response, and that can come way before the stressor even occurs. The most important thing, then, is to focus on how often and how quickly we can recover from a stress response. That’s what resilience is all about, getting the body to reset itself after a stress response and helping it stay longer in a settled state.

Part One: The Nature of Resilience
Part Two: The Family as a Compassionate Community
Part Three: Attunement and Empathic Listening
Part Four: Gratitude, Appreciation, and Positive Actions
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]]> Positive Psychology and Student Learning Implications https://kevinplummerphd.com/positive-psychology-student-learning-implications/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=positive-psychology-student-learning-implications Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:34:32 +0000 http://kevinplummerphd.com/?p=250 People who experience anger, rage, high stress, and frustration also experience an increase in blood pressure, muscle tension respiration rate, the activation of the sympathetic nervous system, and engagement of the immune system.

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]]> People who experience anger, rage, high stress, and frustration also experience an increase in blood pressure, muscle tension respiration rate, the activation of the sympathetic nervous system, and engagement of the immune system. Their thinking is narrowed (to the matter at hand), more rigid, more automatic, and it is mixed with memories of similar situations, creating a loss of current context and at least a slight dissociation from the present…

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