Week 7 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Song (Daykin et al. 2018, Ting et al. 2023 and Lu et al. 2021)
- Music evokes emotions
- Music associated with reduced — and enhanced —
- Improves quality of life and
- Can reduce — in people with dementia
- Enhances
- Some small RCTs show it can
- happy, sad, angry, memories
- stress and anxiety and mood purpose in adults
- coping for people with health conditions
- anxiety and agitation
- morale in adults
- lead to reduction in anxiety
A conceptual model as to how art engagement may contribute to flourishing
- Reflection
- Acquisition
- Immersion
- Socialization
- Expression
- engagement of cognitive and emotional processes during arts and humanities activities that influence habits, values, or worldview
- social and cognitive processes of arts and humanities engagement (e.g. mastery experiences) that lead to the development of adaptive and enduring perspectives, habits, and skills (e.g. self-efficacy)
- being absorbed in experience and devoting attention to cognitive and emotional experiences
- people develop new identities or reaffirm identities relevant to arts and humanities and influences how people interact with one another
- externalizing thoughts and emotions, such as through discussion or via creation of art
What do pets do for us?
- pets provide companioship and emotional support
- pets encourage physical activity and social interaction
- pets teach responsibility and empathy
- pets add fun and joy to life
why do we sleep?
- restorative
- energy conservation
- Brain processing and memory consolidation
- detoxification
- reduce inflammation
- to avoid gain
- supports activation of the lymphatic system
Sleep Architecture
- light sleep
- deep sleep
* important for
* synapses
* info learned moves from
- REM - when dreaming takes place
* good for processing
- stage 1 and 2
- stages 3 and 4 - slow wave sleep
- memory consolidation
- are augmented
- ST to LT storage
- reduced activity of the amygdala
- emotional memories
Sleep Affects Mental Health: Meta-analysis
- improving sleep quality led to
-significant medium-sized effect on composite
- significant small-to-medium-sized effects on
- small significant effects on
- mental health, depression, anxiety, and rumination
- stress
- positive psychosis symptoms
R-E-S-T
- Routine
- Environment
- Stimulation Control
- Thinking
Non-Drug Options to Manage Sleep Disturbance and Insomnia
- CBT
- Progressive relaxation therapy
- Reset circadian rhythm
- Ensure alarm clock out of sight
- Exercise
- Warm bath
- Stimulus control therapy
Green Space
- Being close to nature is associated with
- Green prescriptions are given to 456 NZ sedentary patients
- lower stress, restoration of cognitive attention, physical activity, longevity, lower depression, and anxiety scores
- increased physical activity and wellbeing
Theories about how we benefit from nature
- Biophilia hypothesis
- Stress-reduction theory (Ulrich et al., 1991)
- Natural environment in addressing
- Eco-existential positive psychology
- Bacteria in soil, such as M. vaccae, may boost
- human ancestors depended on connecting with nature to survive
- proposes past exposures to unthreatening natural environments contributed to survival via stress-reducing physiological responses
- existential anxieties, such as meaning in life, isolation, freedom, and death (Yalom, 1980)
- restorative experiences with nature might contribute to sense of identity, multiple forms of happiness, meaning, social connectedness, freedom, and awareness of one’s mortality
- serotonin in brain (Lowry et al., 2016)
Importance of bird life (Hammoud et al., 2022)
- Everyday encounters with birdlife associated with
- time-lasting improvements in mental wellbeing
Therapeutic horticulture: RCT in Copenhagen (84 participants with stress): 10 wks CBT (20 sessions) versus 10 wks gardening programme (Nacadia®nature-based therapy (NNBT))
- Found to be equivalent improvement
- Gains for both groups sustained
- in wellbeing and reduction of stress/burnout and fewer GP visits and sick leave
- to 12 months
Green prison programmes (van der Linden, 2015)
- Reoffending rates(1yr) from Rikers
- ReoffendingaftercompletingHort’s Programme
- 65%
- 10-15%
Blue spaces and wellbeing
- very little
- Living close to or regularly visiting blue spaces associated with higher levels
- Those living near blue spaces are more likely to exercise more than
- People who live within 5km of a coast report better
- Children who spent more time at the beach throughout the year had
- some studies show
- research
- physical activity and better mental health
- 300 minutes a week
- mental health
- fewer emotional problems and higher levels of prosocial behavior
- no effect
Promoting wellbeing in built environment: Architecture ( Capolongo, 2014 & Altomonte et al., 2020)
- Given humans spend 80% of their time in built spaces, an architect
- Buildings mediate experiences, dictate environmental stimulations, accompany rhythms of bodies, facilitate or hinder social interactions, offer opportunities for
- ey physical factors (e.g., light, temperature, sound, and air quality) of indoor environmental quality strongly influence
- Create environments that support
- has a key role in protecting health
- pleasure and delight, but also exposure to potential dangers and harms
- occupant perception of built spaces as well as positive experiences of comfort
- physical, social, and emotional health, cognitive function, and productivity
Promoting well-being in built environment: Architecture (con’t) (Capolongo, 2014)
- Variable temperatures reduced
- Importance of variable
- consider the role of acoustic design in well-being in terms of reducing
- Attending to all of these factors have higher productivity from
- symptoms of drowsiness and difficulty in concentration
- luminous environments on our circadian health
- noise and improving social interactions
- workers and less sickness absence
Health-promoting features (Marek et al 2021, Hobbs et al 2022)
- green spaces
- blue spaces
- physical activity facilitates
- fruit and vegetable outlets
- supermarkets
Effects of deprived areas on health (Hobbs et al. 2023)
- Mental health problems are higher in
- These represent upstream factors that contribute to well-being and are
- Young people living in health-constraining environments are more likely
- health-constraining environments
- modifiable with good urban planning
- to experience poorer emotional and mental health
- to have problems with substance abuse
The benefits of green environments are not just about social class (Kuo et al., 2003)
- stronger ties among neighbours
- greater sense of safety and adjustment
- more supervision of children in outdoor spaces
- healthier patterns of children’s play
- more use of neighbourhood common spaces
- fewer incivilities
- fewer property crimes
- fewer violent crimes
