Chapter Six: Beginning Your Healing Journey
You may not remember them but you still relive them:
This understanding is based on a series of
interviews with Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, on November 1, 2013, and November 11, 2013.
The resilience survey below is based on resilience research:
This questionnaire was developed by the
early childhood service providers, pediatricians, psychologists, and health advocates of Southern
Kennebec Healthy Start, Augusta, Maine, in 2006, and updated in February 2013. Two psychologists
in the group, Mark Rains and Kate McClinn, came up with the fourteen statements with editing
suggestions by the other members of the group. The scoring system was modeled after the ACE
Study questions. The content of the questions was based on a number of research studies from the
literature over the past forty years including that of Emmy Werner and others. Its purpose is limited
to parenting education. It was not developed for research. ACEsTooHigh News, “Got Your ACE
Score? (and, at the end, What’s Your Resilience Score?),”
http://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-
score/
.
According to Jane Stevens, journalist and founder:
Jane Stevens is finishing a book about how
people, organizations, agencies, and communities are using ACEs research to solve our most
intractable problems—e.g., eliminate school suspensions and expulsions, stop domestic violence, get
the homeless back on their feet—and allow us to spend money in different ways.
Studies show that writing about stressful experiences:
J. M. Smyth, A. A. Stone, A. Hurewitz, et al.,
“Effects of Writing About Stressful Experiences on Symptom Reduction in Patients with Asthma or
Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Trial,”
JAMA
281, no. 14 (April 1999), 1304–9.
Write continuously for twenty minutes a day:
James W. Pennebaker, PhD, is Regents Centennial
Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author
of several books, including
Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma and
Emotional Upheaval
(Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications 2004). You can read more about his
instructions on how to write to heal in this article: James Pennebaker, PhD., “Writing to Heal,” The
University of Texas at Austin at
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2005/writing.html
(accessed
August 12, 2014).
For instance, when students were asked to write to heal:
J. M. Smyth, J. R. Hockemeyer, K. E.
Heron, et al., “Prevalence, Type, Disclosure, and Severity of Adverse Life Events in College
Students,”
Journal of the American College of Health
57, no. 1 (July–August 2008), 69–76; J. W.
Pennebaker, S. D. Gosling, and J. D. Ferrell, “Daily Online Testing in Large Classes: Boosting
College Performance While Reducing Achievement Gaps,”
PLoS One
8, no. 11 (November 2013),
e79774.
When individuals wrote about emotional upheavals:
J. W. Pennebaker, J. K. Kiecolt-Glaser, and R.
Glaser, “Disclosure of Traumas and Immune Function: Health Implications for Psychotherapy,”
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
56, no. 2 (April 1988), 239–45.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon found that the simple act:
K. S. Kassam and W. B. Mendes, “The
Effects of Measuring Emotion: Physiological Reactions to Emotional Situations Depend on Whether
Someone Is Asking,”
PLoS One
8, no. 7 (June 5, 2013), e64959. Karim Kassam, PhD, assistant
professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon, says that what was most impressive
was the fact that “a subtle manipulation had a big impact on people’s physiological response.
Essentially, we’re asking people how they’re feeling and finding that doing so has a sizable impact
on their cardiovascular response.”
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