Five Ways To Boost Resilience In Children
By Emma Young
While some of us crumble in the face of adversity, and struggle to recover, others quickly bounce back from even serious trauma. Psychological resilience is undeniably important in all kinds of areas of life, so understanding what underpins it, and how to train it – particularly in children — is of intense interest to psychologists.
1. Watch your language
According to Carol Dweck of growth mindset fame, to drive success in our children we should “praise the effort that led to the outcome or learning progress; tie the praise to it,” as opposed to praising effort more broadly, or achievement al...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Feature Source Type: blogs
Chile's Success Story is Difficult to Deny
Ian V ásquezWeeks after a 3.75% rise in metro fares in Santiago, Chile sparked violent protests by a small group of students that then generated more widespread disruption, mostly peaceful mass protests continue. Some observers have seized on the political crisis to make often-repeated claims that Chile ’s free-market model has generated growing inequality and been fundamentally unjust despite having produced greater wealth.Yet such claims are difficult to square with the facts. Since its free-market reforms began in 1975, Chile has quadrupled its income per capita, making it the most prosperous country in Latin America...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky: 1942 – 2019
Tom G. PalmerThe Cato Institute mourns the passing of a colleague, Vladimir Bukovsky, asenior fellow of the institute and a giant among champions of freedom.A single name was enough to enrage powerful dictators: Bukovsky. Vladimir Bukovsky was a tower of strength, with the integrity never to buckle and the courage to endure. The word dissident barely suffices to describe him. He was interrogated and then expelled from university at 19 for attending illegal poetry readings and for criticizing Komsomol, the Young Communist League. In 1963 he was arrested for making two copies of Milovan Djilas ’s workThe New Class, which a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Tom G. Palmer Source Type: blogs
Financial Inclusion without Finance? The Misguided Quest to Limit Choice in Consumer Credit
Diego ZuluagaOn October 21, I had the pleasure to give the research keynote address at the annual conference of the Financial Services Centers of America (FiSCA) in Miami. The below is a transcript of my speech, in which I critiqued some policymakers' attempts to promote financial inclusion by restricting consumer choice and giving the government a larger role in credit allocation. In light of historical experience in the U.S. and elsewhere, I offered market competition as a more effective policy to ensure all Americans can achieve financial security.*****The legislator, who knows nothing, nor can know any thing, of any on...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 24, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Diego Zuluaga Source Type: blogs
Costs of Higher Spending Would Fall on Middle Class
Chris EdwardsAWall Street Journal editorialwas right to zero in on Elizabeth ’s Warren's “determined refusal to say if her plans would require taxes to increase on the middle class.” In the Democratic presidential debate the other night, the senator repeatedly ducked concerns that the costs of her huge spending plans would land on more than just the wealthy.They surely would. The larger welfare states of Europe and some other high-income economies are not fueled by higher income taxes than ours, but by higher taxes on consumption and worker wages.There are 36 high-income countries in the OECD. Thirty of themhave high...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
New Cato Journal Features an Array of Articles on Urgent Monetary Matters
Amanda GriffithsThe Fall 2019 edition of theCato Journal, the Cato Institute ’s interdisciplinary journal of public policy, is now available online. Readers of Alt-M will find the articles on monetary and financial topics of special interest. Their topics range from financial inclusion, to macroprudential policy, to Modern Monetary Theory, to the politicization of the Fede ral Reserve, to European monetary policy. Here are links to the full-text articles–followed by a summary of each."Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion"Drawn from remarks he delivered at the Cato Institute ’s Financial Inclusion Summit this p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 2, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Amanda Griffiths Source Type: blogs
Capital Gains Taxes: Already Too High
Chris EdwardsDemocrats are proposing to raise capital gains taxes. Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, wants to tax capital gains on an annual basis, not the current realization basis. He also wants to hike the top capital gains tax rate for high earners to match the top rate on ordinary income. CNBCreports“Almost every major Democratic presidential candidate supports taxing capital gains as ordinary income . . .Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday outlined an even more aggressive planthat would impose a new 14.8 percent tax on investment income to help finance Social Security.”These are radical and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
People ’s Responses To News Clips Suggest There Is A Greater Market For Happy Stories Than Journalists Realise
This study directly demonstrates that humans around the world are more activated by negative news coverage,” they write. “We are, perhaps, one step closer to accounting for the high frequency of negative news content around the world.”
But that wasn’t the whole story. From this data, the researchers then modelled how each individual’s heart rate variability and skin conductance would change as a clip became more negative in tone. While these physiological measures increased for the majority of people, there was a huge amount of variation — many participants actually showed no change or a decreased response. The...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cross-cultural Media Source Type: blogs
Context and Nuance: Part Three
Having said something about race, I will now turn to the concepts of caste, class and ethnicity. These intersect with race in complicated ways, but we need to unpack the individual parts and try to get a shared understanding of them before we try to put them back together.A caste is a socially constructed category that is strictly inherited, and assigns people to differential status. The caste system of India is well known. Historically, people inherited quite specific occupations, including priest, warrior, and waste collector. People whose caste assigned them to menial jobs were otherwise despised and ritually unclean. B...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 7, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Could Digital Health Fight Against The Climate Catastrophe?
Climate change is the
greatest health challenge of the 21st century, and threatens all aspects of society,
says
the WHO in its COP24 Special Report. What could digital health technologies
do to support the fight against the climate crisis? How could healthcare
processes, facilities, medical devices become more sustainable? As it is
humanity’s priority to mitigate the worsening as well as the impact of rising
temperatures and extreme weather events, we tried to figure out what role
digital health could assume here. We found many options – and even more
possibilities for future development.
The climate crisis is our ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine air asthma climate climate catastrophe climate change climate crisis digital digital health efficient Healthcare mosquito optimize resilience solar sustainability technology Source Type: blogs
Altitude Sickness & The Brain Stage of O2
Podcast Transcript of Altitude Sickness & The Brain Stage of O2
Dr. Greene: (00:01)
Hi, this is Dr. Greene
MsGreene: (00:02)
and Ms. Greene and greetings from Chile. Hola!.
Dr. Greene: (00:06)
Hola! We are on a surprising trip and today we went to see the Atacama Cosmology Telescope high in the Andes Mountains, which was an amazing experience at 17,200 feet,
MsGreene: (00:22)
Which was a little bit scary. I’ve had altitude sickness in the past so I was a little bit intimidated by this whole thing. In the past I just, I got sick and I didn’t know why and so this time we tried to figure it out. And so it̵...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Altitude Sickness Outdoor Exercise The Brain Stage Travel Source Type: blogs
Why Is the USA Only the 35th Healthiest Country in the World?
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES
According the 2019 Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, the U.S. ranks 35th out of 169 countries. Even though we are the 11th wealthiest country in the world, we are behind pretty much all developed economies in terms of health. In the Americas, not just Canada (16th) but also Cuba (30th), Chile and Costa Rica (tied for 33rd) rank ahead of us in this Bloomberg study.
To answer this layered question, we need to look at the top ranked countries in the Bloomberg Index: From first to 12th, they are Spain; Italy; Iceland; Japan; Switzerland; Sweden; Australia; Singapore; Norway; Israel; Luxe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Economics Health disparities Health Policy American healthcare Etienne Deffarges Mediterranean Diet Opioids world health Source Type: blogs
The " Heart " Of Darkness?
Black holes are the stuff of science, science fiction, and even fantasy, but theyare real. Until now, however, no one has ever seen one. Until now:Image courtesy PBS.comFromPBS.com:On Wednesday, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole — a historic moment shared by scientists spread across seven simultaneous news conferences around the world. As the PBS NewsHour reported Tuesday, the Event Horizon Telescope is a two-year-old, international collaboration bent on capturing direct pictures of black holes:Two years ago, an international collective of scientists joined forces to take pictures ...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 10, 2019 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 104 Emergency Medicine in Chile
Emergency Medicine in Chile. Not to be underestimated. Cesar, Loreto Acuña, Manuela Brinkmann and Josefina Larraín came to SMACC in Sydney where I was waiting to meet them. Have a listen to what this group have to say.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 6, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Podcast chile Josefina Larraín Loreto Acuña Manuela Brinkmann Medicina de Urgencia de Chile ReanimaApp smacc2019 SMACCreach Source Type: blogs
