Sentences with phrase «how vulnerable an individual»

Hereditary factors, upbringing, early life experiences, the meanings given to certain situations, constitutional composition, and access to health care (including psychological support) all have a part in how vulnerable an individual is to the harmful effects of stress.

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As individuals and communities, we should think about how we can assist vulnerable people in our neighbourhoods — doing our bit to help them, out of the principles of kindness, compassion and companionship.

From a pet owner's perspective, it might be useful to know if an animal is left or right limb dominant, as it may help them gauge how vulnerable that individual is to stressful situations.»

America the Vulnerable by Joel Brenner A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks, including viruses that could destroy the power grid, simple hacks that have harvested millions of credit card numbers from retailers, and security breaches that are hemorrhaging classified intelligence through the Net.

They detailed how the genetic makeup of certain individuals can make them vulnerable to specific stresses, elucidating the complex interplay between genes and life experience.

A possible hypothesis for exactly how stress contributes is that it may cause a neurotoxic reaction in the brain (primarily in the hippocampus) that leads to cell damage and death in individuals who are already vulnerable (due to genes or early environmental insult).

Gangs of males — either kind — know perfectly well how vulnerable a stranded individual neighbor is.

These additional datasets will also help individuals understand how the changing climate affects public health in their area, risk factors that make a person more vulnerable to climate - related health effects, and how to plan for uncertain future conditions.

Global Witness has previously shown how anonymously - owned American companies allow a wide range of criminals to cheat justice and rip off ordinary people — from forcing vulnerable families into foreclosure to luring individuals from overseas into a human trafficking scheme that stretched across the U.S.

Once powers are in place to remove material deemed by the State to be adverse to the public interest, our society and individual citizens become extremely vulnerable to the gross abuse of these powers, regardless of how well - meaning our current leadership may be now.

In EFT, we understand how each person's experience has validity (not how one person is right and the other wrong) and look to see how both individual histories as well as present - day interactions (the cycle) contribute to primary (vulnerable) emotions like insecurity, fear, loneliness, and inadequacy.