There’s an important gap between “hope” and “optimism.”

Hope is not just about looking on the bright side. It plays the long game: enduring suffering with integrity.

It’s something Martin Luther King understood when he said “I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” But hope makes us act, anyway.

https://theconversation.com/hope-is-not-the-same-as-optimism-a-psychologist-explains-just-look-at-mlks-example-226384
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Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example

Optimism can rely on a sense of luck, while hope is action-oriented − and often aimed at helping other people.

^{The Conversation}

What is a Master’s in Applied Educational Psychology and what can it do for you? Find out in this latest episode of the Emerging Research in Educational Psychology podcast, with David Timony and Jeanette King: https://soundcloud.com/user-883650452/david-d-timony-jeanette-king

#Education #Psychology #EducationalPsychology #Learning #LearningSciences
@edutooters @psychology @academicchatter

David D. Timony & Jeanette King

Dr. David D. Timony and Dr. Jeanette King join host Dr. Jeff Greene to discuss their work on Division 15's upcoming Applied Educational Psychology Master's degree framework.

^SoundCloud

The goal: to have a comprehensive data driven understanding how multi-generational trauma shapes implicit bias in institutions, groups, familes etc and how it intertwines DK in community leaders.

So that we can work together to address these issues together!

Reliable studies or sources
Boost for effect! 🙏

Here’s one below. I’m going through now

https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fijerph19105944

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#psychology
#science
#sociology
#bias
#multigeneration
#trauma
#misinformation
#disinformation

Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: The Mediating Effects of Family Health

Family health is important to the well-being of individual family members and the collective family unit, and as such, may serve as a mediator for the intergenerational transmission of trauma (ITT).

^MDPI

Op-ed: What we know about toxic chemicals and children’s mental health

"Evidence suggests chemical exposures are altering children’s brains. We need to tackle this interconnected crisis. "

".. a growing body of evidence connecting increased exposure to chemicals in the environment, such as lead, PFAS and BPA, to increased child mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression."

#Psychology #Neurology #Pollution
https://www.ehn.org/chemicals-children-mental-health-2666894968.html

What we know about toxic chemicals and children’s mental health

^{Ashley James (EHN)}

"Giving people who lost their humanity, people were reduced to nothing, giving them their dignity back … Psychologists can’t do that alone. We need responses at state and international level. We need the rest of the world to stand with us.”
Dr Samah Jabr, Head of the PHA mental health unit.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #PTSD #CTSD #Psychology

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/mental-health-palestine-children?CMP=GTUK_email

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma

Chair of the Palestinian ministry of health’s mental health unit says the clinical definition of PTSD does not fit the reality in Gaza

^{Bethan McKernan (The Guardian)}