Sentences with phrase «reduce stress reactivity»

We know that mindfulness and related interventions reduce stress reactivity and make one less prone to developing these acute illnesses and infections.

Dr. Bell's research is focused on oxytocin, a neurohormone important in birth and lactation, as well as maintaining positive mood, healthy attachment, and reduced stress reactivity.

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The researchers added: «Other bioactive compounds present in nuts, including micronutrients, fibre, and phytochemicals, may also contribute to their cardio - protective effect by reducing inflammation, improving vascular reactivity as well as fasting glucose and insulin sensitivity, and by lowering oxidative stress status.

Dr. Bullock's BREATHE program provides essential skills that will enable you reduce your stress and reactivity, improve your communication skills and be more effective in your personal and professional relationships.

After reviewing the benefits of mindfulness practices — like reduced stress, boosted working memory, and lowered emotional reactivity — it was no longer a nice - to - have, but rather a necessity.

Isolation panels and guillotine closures reduce reactivity and stress triggers that can do serious mental harm to dogs in the long term.

Children exposed to institutional rearing exhibited reduced SNS activation to social stressors, blunted vagal withdrawal to a nonsocial stressor, and blunted cortisol reactivity, indicating a consistent pattern of reduced engagement of stress response systems to environmental challenges following early psychosocial deprivation.

Rhesus and squirrel monkeys exposed to prolonged early - life maternal deprivation exhibit elevated basal levels of cortisol (7 ⇓ — 9), enhanced glucocorticoid feedback sensitivity (10), and heightened cortisol reactivity to social stress in some studies (11, 12), but lower basal cortisol and reduced cortisol reactivity in others (9, 13, 14).

After reviewing the benefits of mindfulness practices — like reduced stress, boosted working memory, and lowered emotional reactivity — it was no longer a nice - to - have, but rather a necessity.

Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff (PDF - 1116 KB) ACS - NYU Children's Trauma Institute Describes a project to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff in New York City, and thereby increase staff job satisfaction, resilience, optimism, self - care and social support, and decrease staff attrition, stress reactivity and burnout.

The mind is known to be a factor in stress and stress - related disorders, and meditation has been shown to positively effect a range of autonomic physiological processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall arousal and emotional reactivity.

There is preliminary evidence that mindful parenting programs reduce parental stress and resulting parental reactivity (process 1), reduce aspects of child mental disorder (process 2), and improve marital functioning and co-parenting (process 6).

The design and small power of this pilot study prohibits further analysis of mediation of change mechanisms, but one direction of research would be to investigate whether reduction of parental stress is the mechanism through which parental reactivity towards the child is reduced.

Results provide some preliminary support for two of the six proposed pathways of change by mindful parenting in a mental health care context: reducing parental stress and the assumed effect on parental reactivity and improving marital functioning and co-parenting.

Teaching and practicing effective stress management tools to reduce emotional reactivity in the service of being effective through legal meetings and in interactions with your partner

There is a pattern of increase in the left prefrontal cortex (seen in people that are happy and experience less anxiety and depression), stronger immune response, reduces reactivity to stress, and increases self - esteem and feelings of control.

Mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) is thought to reduce emotional reactivity and enhance emotion regulation in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD).

Because relationship conflict reduces teamwork quality [1] and is an important interpersonal stressor associated with group work [13]; [14], we build on the differential exposure - reactivity model to argue that personality influences both the engagement in relationship conflict (stress exposure) as well as the coping strategies mobilized to deal with the stress triggered by it (reaction to stress).