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The Traumatized Couple
Published in Len Sperry, Katherine Helm, Jon Carlson, The Disordered Couple, 2019
Couples who have experienced trauma may have conflicts that are quite painful and make coping difficult. When one partner has experienced a trauma that caused them to view the world as a dangerous place, they have a profound loss of safety and trust. In addition to that change, their instinctual self-preservation strategies serve to isolate them further and confound the most painful and lonely symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Not only do individuals with PTSD need to learn (or relearn) how to hope and to connect to others, their loved ones need to learn how to help maintain stability and understand their traumatized partner’s emotional and safety needs. No matter the cause or consequence of trauma, the healing process between couples requires trust, safety, and connection from each partner.
Perils of the Helping Professions
Published in Lisa D. Hinz, Beyond Self-Care for Helping Professionals, 2018
From my perspective, there are three essential pieces to living an enriched life, which will be defined and developed throughout the book: a deep well, wide margins, and firm boundaries. The relationships between these elements and the Life Enrichment Model will be explored and its application in a dynamic balance explained. Living in dynamic balance means that people who live enriched lives know that balance ebbs and flows; it is not static and should not be. Sometimes attention and energy are necessary in one area at other times another area of the LEM is the focus. A deep well of enrichment comes from various aspects of the LEM, but especially from increasing positive emotions like hope, optimism, resiliency, and self-efficacy. To have wide margins is to have time built into the day for a pause. Sometimes this pause is for rest or relaxation and sometimes it is for self-reflection, but it is always necessary to carve out time between activities to live mindfully. In order to embrace firm boundaries, one must realize that it is not selfish to focus on one’s own life and heath, but actually a form of necessary self-preservation. When you live an enriched life, you can preserve your health and have more energy to give to others.
An Experiment in Challenging the Status Quo
Published in Ruchin Kansal, Jeff Huth, Redefining Innovation, 2018
The talent pool within biopharma incumbents, while typically highly qualified, intelligent and competent, is often not geared toward thinking beyond the current business. The leadership is mainly comprised of people who succeeded in revenue-generating roles under the current model—and it is challenging for most leaders to reinvent themselves. The culture of inertia and human factors prevails. Self-preservation creates barriers to self-disruption. Sunk costs in R&D establishment continue to create obstacles to non-traditional innovation. Performance incentives that are typically focused on revenue today versus longer term longevity of the business also add to the complexity.
Social Support and Its Effects on Attempted Suicide Among American Indian/Alaska Native Youth in New Mexico
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2020
The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide developed by Thomas Joiner in 2005 states that, if an individual has the desire to die as well as the means, the risk of lethal self-injury is at a critical level. A person develops the desire to die if they perceive their existence to be a burden to their family, friends, or society, while simultaneously having a sense of low belongingness or social alienation, over a long period of time. Self-preservation is a powerful instinct to overcome, but individuals who repeatedly experience painful or provocative events (accidental or not) may lose their fear of death. When perceived burdensomeness, low belongingness, and a capability for suicide overlap, the theory predicts a near-lethal suicide attempt or completed suicide will occur (“The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior: Current Empirical Status,” n.d.).
Safety challenges and improvement strategies of ethnic minority construction workers: a case study in Hong Kong
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020
Chunlin Wu, Xiaowei Luo, Tao Wang, Yue Wang, Bibek Sapkota
Maslow [12] put forward the assumption that self-preservation is more important than any other motivations. However, Zohar and Luria [13] found that, based on many facts, careless behaviors are usually observed in various industries, which makes safety behavior an unsolved problem. A great number of studies also proved that unsafe behaviors result in more than 80% of all accidents [14–16]. Many studies have been carried out in order to determine the reasons behind unsafe behavior of workers. Zohar and Luria [13] asserted that the reason for workers’ unsafe behavior falls on the focus of short-term benefits [17] and a fluke to escape the rare accident [18]. This statement was based on the assumption that maximizing expected utility dominates over behaviors [19]. A cost–benefit analysis combining high-profit preference and low probability of risk was carried out which explained, as already stated, why workers choose to work unsafely [13].
The potential impact of dietary supplement adulteration on patient assessment and treatment from a healthcare provider’s perspective
Published in South African Family Practice, 2019
A healthcare practitioner is a professional who practises medicine, restores health or maintains good wellness for the patient. In recent times these elements have been applicable to the self-preservation also of the practitioner’s health and wellness. The practitioner is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring better health condition through the study, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. The important consideration in this paper is the obligation of the healthcare provider to conscientiously take into consideration, through appropriate and rigorous assessment, whether the patient has or consumes dietary supplements when introducing dietary—together with lifestyle—intervention, and where in particular medicine will be prescribed for treatment but not exclusively so.