Stay Calm Research Articles

«Αντιμετωπίζω τον Εκφοβισμό στο Σχολείο»: Ένα πρόγραμμα πρόληψης και υποστήριξης μαθητών/ριών Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης

The aim of the paper is to present the outcomes of an intervention program focusing on students’ training in coping with school bullying. The moto of the program was: “Stay calm / think clearly”. The activities of the intervention program were developed at Flinders University in Australia and included: a) a DVD with four short films dealing with social exclusion, physical bullying, verbal bullying and cyber bullying, b) a workbook (for each student), c) worksheets for students and d) teachers’ instructions/feedback sheets. For the Greek adaptation of the program, a pilot study was initially conducted which led to the final implementation and evaluation of the program. The final study included 932 students derived from 14 schools in Thessaly (12 schools in the intervention group and 2 in the control group). During the repeated (three times) measures approach, we evaluated students’ self-reports concerning: a) frequency of exposure to bullying, b) perceived self-safety from school bullying, and c) perceived self-efficacy in coping with school bullying. After the implementation of the program, the seriously victimized students (around 10% of the participants) reported less incidents of victimization, while their perceived sense of safety at school was increased. Overall the findings from this study suggest that the implementation of anti-interventions of this type can play an important role in empowering adolescents to adopt effective strategies to address the negative effects associated with bullying at school.

Stay calm and focus on the learning outcomes: Tools for taking biophysical chemistry online.

Course specific learning outcomes are an important tool to define the scope of a course and can be very helpful when designing experiments and assessments. With slight modification, these learning outcomes can serve as a guide when transitioning to the distance learning format especially in courses with a traditional lab. Here we present such an example for the biophysical chemistry course.

Message from the President: ASLO in the Time of Covid‐19

Message from the President: <scp>ASLO</scp> in the Time of Covid‐19

Stay calm and provide practical leadership

Stay calm and provide practical leadership

Making It Work When Working with the Media: Part 2

Last issue, we covered the basics of a journalist's job, life in the newsroom, and the anatomy of a news story (https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2019.64.1217). This issue, we cover answering questions to gain more control over an interview. Most interviews are not live, which means you have an opportunity to say, “I'm unsure about that—how would you like me to get back to you?” There is nothing wrong with not knowing something if the journalist goes astray. In addition, they could be poorly wording their question. The problem could be solved by merely asking, “Could you rephrase that—I'm not sure what you mean.” Use this “A-B-C” tactic for great answers: Source: Adobe Stock/Jonás Torres. Rarely—but highly publicized when it happens—a journalist may try to trap you. No need to participate. For example, one high-profile person has certain rules about what questions they'll answer, and all interviewers sign agreements not to go into this territory. When one interviewer would not stop asking the question, after our high-profile person was respectfully saying, “You know I don't speak on that topic”—she politely got up from her chair, turned off the microphone, handed it to a stagehand, and walked away. All this was filmed and aired live. The headline that the station tried to use? “High-Profile Person Storms Off Stage.” I applaud this person—and respect their anonymity. I don't think this will happen to you at all. Stay calm and keep saying, “I don't know the answer to that question.” Journalists—and the public—are not uneducated. They may not know what you know, or they may be misinformed, but they likely have some area of expertise. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and inform, share, and learn from them. Another area to avoid is putting down a study or the authors/researchers. It's fine to say you “disagree” with a published paper, the study design, etc. But your disagreement itself isn't news, so it shouldn't be the focus of your precious time trying to inform a journalist. Realize everything you say is “on the record,” even pre- and post-interview small talk. You don't want to be taken out of context or give them ideas for another story; you're trying to develop positive relationships that are important to the long-term health of your research and communications about it. And never roll your eyes, no matter how much you disagree. Television and streaming news services tell visual stories. Sometimes they just do “talking head” interviews, but photos of your research or that help answer questions within the story often are appreciated. Most stories have sustained action, so visuals like folks working in your lab, you walking along the hallway with a reporter, etc., are all something to be prepared for. They will call this “b-roll” and the actual interview the “a-roll.” Stories can run from 30 seconds to a few minutes, depending on the day's priorities. Television often needs you to be ready on short notice, and even if it's traditional TV, the story can still be streamed or put into print. Radio often tells very short stories. They are often able to do interviews on the phone. Since radio is a form of oral communication, they often like “natural sounds” as their version of b-roll. So, if a reporter comes to your lab, don't be surprised if they want equipment running softly in the background. Alternatively, their sound equipment is especially precise, so if background noise is too distracting, you may have to turn off some equipment or move to a quieter location. Podcasts are usually a more relaxed, extended version of radio style. Print or online written-word media vary widely. Both newspapers and magazines have moved to a combination of “feature” stories—longer and more in depth—and short articles. All appreciate photos that fit with the story topic (for more on taking good photos, see https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2018.63.0118). They may ask for follow-up interviews unlike television and radio formats, which are usually a one-time interaction. Remember to read all our collected CSA News magazine articles about good communications habits in our Communications Toolkits.1 And if you missed it, read Part 1 of our media relations series found in the last issue of CSA News magazine (https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2019.64.1217).

Radical Awakenings

Radical Awakenings Pringl Miller WTF is going on with my mother?" I thought. My mind was racing; my heart sank deep into my gut, knocking the wind out of me as I struggled to breathe. Just breathe. Stay calm, don't panic. This isn't a trauma code activation … or is it? My observations and cognitive interpretations were being rapidly internalized as stressors, which led to a series of visceral responses because I knew they portended badness. I was experiencing a real-life reflex arc and entering the slippery slope of being a daughter who is also a medical doctor. Navigating the personal with the professional is often a challenge for clinicians. There was going to be a reckoning ahead; however, immediately, I found myself fighting back the emotions and impending sadness to diagnose the problem. I was on vacation in my mother's home and I had some serious work to do. Reflecting on my last visit with her, everything seemed fine … normal. "At baseline," as we say. But now, in retrospect, these new observations would explain her recent comment to me that she was dropping things and didn't know why. How could I have blown off her comment? Why hadn't I realized this SOS was significant? I had failed the test of being on high alert as a doctor for my aged mother, and now I was learning that she was seriously ill, and it all felt so ominous. While absorbing my mother's new state of affairs on the first day of my visit, I noticed subtle differences in her behavior and personality as well as dramatic changes in her physicality. For example, she was less engaging. It was as though her disposition was muted. The vibrant and inquisitive, in-your-face, "I want to know everything that's going on with you" mother was MIA. Similarly, when I looked into her beautiful grey-green eyes, they cast an absent quality that was eerie. I associated this void with what I imagined a zombie projects because it was as though my mother was no longer present in her own body. Also disturbing were uncontrollable subconscious upper extremity jerking movements that occurred in synchrony with a weird facial grimace, giving the appearance of being possessed. Later, I would learn these spells were faciobrachial dystonic seizures or FBDS, a pathognomonic feature of Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel (VGKC) autoimmune encephalitis. It was noteworthy and somewhat reassuring that these FBDS and everything else that was disease-related went seemingly unnoticed by patient number one except for her report that she was dropping things, which didn't seem to faze her. Another profoundly abnormal sign that she was not herself—she was no longer as vigilant about order and control. This 180 was unsettling to observe and accept in a woman who had always been highly aware, independent, and in control of herself and her surroundings. I felt strangely alone and uncomfortable holding onto this new information because nondisclosure didn't feel respectful, and yet I reasoned there was mercy in her not knowing to spare any associated distress. The red flags kept accumulating and had me concerned, but I felt relieved that she was actually "ok" living in her body and in a safe place. Nothing catastrophic had occurred during the interim of time between the onset of these symptoms and my visit. I continued my assessment and started to formulate my management plan while she was pleasantly busy with something to read. It's always important to provide a complete history to the doctor, so I started inspecting the house looking for more evidence of trouble while also hoping to assuage my fears. Unfortunately, what I discovered suggested that her disability had been longer-lasting than I might have otherwise thought. [End Page E14] Multiple entries in her checkbook dating back several months were illegible because of a combination of micrographia and incomplete notations. How long had this illness gone unrecognized? Were her bills paid? So many questions and the answers felt increasingly unwelcome and overwhelming. Upon confirming something was terribly wrong, I phoned my brother and relayed my concerns. I suspected we were about to embark on...

A parable of the mask: Stay calm, be a hummingbird.

A parable of the mask: Stay calm, be a hummingbird.

The Upsides of a Negative Review

The Upsides of a Negative Review

Stay calm! Regulating emotional responses by implementation intentions: Assessing the impact on physiological and subjective arousal

Implementation intention (IMP) has recently been highlighted as an effective emotion regulatory strategy. Most studies examining the effectiveness of IMPs to regulate emotion have relied on self-report measures of emotional change. In two studies we employed electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate (HR) in addition to arousal ratings (AR) to assess the impact of an IMP on emotional responses. In Study 1, 60 participants viewed neutral and two types of negative pictures (weapon vs. non-weapon) under the IMP “If I see a weapon, then I will stay calm and relaxed!” or no self-regulatory instructions (Control). In Study 2, additionally to the Control and IMP conditions, participants completed the picture rating task either under goal intention (GI) to stay calm and relaxed or warning instructions highlighting that some pictures contain weapons. In both studies, participants showed lower EDA, reduced HR deceleration and lower AR to the weapon pictures compared to the non-weapon pictures. In Study 2, the IMP was associated with lower EDA compared to the GI condition for the weapon pictures, but not compared to the weapon pictures in the Warning condition. ARs were lower for IMP compared to GI and Warning conditions for the weapon pictures.

Board #310 - Technology Innovation Stay Calm and Use Skill Stations and Simulation Sessions to Troubleshoot Chest Tubes (Submission #10071)

Board #310 - Technology Innovation Stay Calm and Use Skill Stations and Simulation Sessions to Troubleshoot Chest Tubes (Submission #10071)

‘Stay Calm and Carry On?’ Adventurers in the Neighborhood of Joy and Machetes

Abstract“Adventurers” is the nickname that “irregular” sub‐Saharan migrants—in Morocco and beyond—have given to themselves. Heroic discourses surrounding migrants’ journeys and their exploits towards Fortress Europe are the antithesis of what Hage (2009) describes as “heroism of stuckedness”; that is a conservative governmentality which delegitimizes impatience and disruption in a permanent time of crisis. “Boatpeople,” “illegal migrants,” who do not “wait out” the crisis, are perceived as hordes of savages assaulting Europe. This photo‐essay aims to depict migrants’ liminality and complex agency in a marginal neighborhood of Morocco, Douar Hajja. A poor and over‐crowded part of Rabat, Douar Hajja is where sub‐Saharan migrants’ im/mobility is grounded as a result of Europe's externalization of border controls. It is a space in constant (re)making where migrants’ establishment is not fully realized as they wait to decide whether to stay in Morocco, go on, or return. Though legally and materially marginalized, migrants in Douar Hajja engage in socio‐political activities: they organize life in collective houses, open businesses, and set up political organizations.

Stay calm and carry on — a VN's perspective on night duty

ABSTRACT:Working the night shift can be perceived by some veterinary nurses as a chore to be endured. In this article, I aim to highlight some of the benefits of this work and take a light-hearted look at the personal attributes needed for night nursing. To be a good night nurse, I believe you need three skills: the ability to stay calm, to cope with sleep deprivation and, most importantly from my experience, good ears!

Home Affairs

3 3 Home Affairs Deji Olukotun "HomeAffairs/'excerpted fromNigerians in Space, a largernovel inprogress, follows afather and son as they attempttopenetratethenotorious RefugeeReceptionOffice inCape Town, South Africa.Thefather, Wale, hasfled bothhis native Nigeria and his second home?the U.S.?in search ofhis dream togo intoouterspace.His son,Dayo, wonderswhy theyleft at all. ButNigerians are rarely welcome inSouthAfrica,and refugees often get thecold shoulder.The storyemerged from Olukotun's work as a refugee attorney. he bullwhip went up and snapped back in a flash, givingWale just enough time JL toduck. The guard was angry?he'd been aggravated by a Tanzanian, freshoff the smug gling truckand waving a paper inhis face?and finally, he'd had enough. "Three lines! Twenty-twos, here! Twenty threes, here! Twenty-fours, here! Three lines!" When Wale and Dayo didn'tmove, theguard came at them hard and fast, stepping back to stretchthe full lengthof thebullwhip. "Get itup, Dayo!" Wale shouted. "Raise the shield!" Clumsily Dayo raised his basket cover, a makeshift shield, and whap!-whap!-whap! theguard rained thewhip down, shooting bits of bamboo into theair.Father and son huddled togetherlikea Roman turtle,raising theirshields over theirheads until the guard, furious,moved on and cracked September-October 2009 i21 thewhip at a group ofCongolese men chattering inLingala, seemingly unaware of the commotion. "three lines!" The resthappened rapidly: the whip snapped, a pair of spectacles?glinting silver in the sun? shot into theair, one of the men fell to theground clutching his temple, and his companion inmili tary fatigues hurtled himself at the guard, wres tlingaway the whip. He had been a commander of theNinjas inBouenza, he shouted, and wouldn't let theguard treathim like an animal. And while more guards joined the fray to retrieve thewhip that the commander had taken,Wale spied an opening in the security gate and theywere run ning fast, fast, fastpast the hundreds of others, through the turnstileand thebeeping radar detec torand into thegloam of theold Customs House. Inside the long, dark foyer there was a cor ridor that led to the elevators. A stale haze hung in the air, obscuring theirvision, and theybegan to sweat. They put away their shields and were about to press the "Up" button on the elevator when the guards entered dragging themilitary man by his shirt. "Stay calm," Wale instructed. "Let's go to the stairs." The elevator door opened as the guards approached with their captive. Wale pretended likehe had just exited the elevator, looking at his watch as if late for an importantmeeting. The guards pulled theman into the elevator without noticing and waited calmly forthedoor to close. Wale and his sonwalked briskly to the stair well, where the steps twistedup interminably into the mottled haze. "Whatwill theydo with him,Dad?" "This isHome Affairs,Dayo. In here we will mind our own business. We get in and get out." He stepped over toDayo, who was hunched over, his mouth slightly open and looking stupid, and pressed a thumb intohis spine. "Stand up straight. Close your mouth." There were no windows in the stairwell, and theair feltas ifithad hung there fordecades. "How far?" "She's on fourteen." They began to climb. Dayo broke out in a full sweat by themezzanine of the stairwell, and thenumbered floorsdid not begin until theyhad already climbed five flights. Wale tramped up, sweating too, holding the hems of his flowing agbada on the landings. They burst out of the stair well into an empty corridor stripedwith mauve, fuchsia, and wilted sunflower paint. The fuchsia was thebiggest stripe.There were exposed struc turalbeams and air ducts from refurbishing and each door had a plastic placard with a number on it. "Mrs. Craxton is in four-point-thirty-five point-sixty-two-point-twenty-one," Wale said. "Or was it point-twenty-three?" He took a note fromhis pocket. "I've got to go to the bathroom." "Point-twenty-two. You ate too many yams. I told you not to eat so many yams." They followed the hallway for a good two hundred meters, twisting and turning,until they were back at the stairwell. The only people they passed were security guards whom theywished to avoid. Cautiously, they trailed a custodian...

The Rules

The Rules Hayan Charara (bio) An interruption, a rally of dark men with dark eyes chanting, a language that is not translated. Soldiers grin for a camera, a flag is raised over the rooftop of a collapsed pharmacy, and children playing board games in basement shelters. The Minister of Defense on learning to kill: This has happened before. An old man and woman, an umbrella protects their heads, and there is no rain, the umbrella a sign of resistance. The Majority Leader explains diplomacy’s drawbacks, a vote is taken to rush aid, a shipment of bombs. From the rubble a man lifts a girl, the girl’s limbs slip from the sockets— my father, an old man, watched the arms leave the body. A woman in a café speaks loudly. They deserve it she says—Should I tell her I call my father every night? “Are you alive?” “I’m alive.” [End Page 1156] I account for the absurd. Stay calm. Remain quiet. I know the rules. They are no longer written in books. I know what to do I keep telling myself. I know what to do. [End Page 1157] Hayan Charara Hayan Charara is author of two books of poems, The Sadness of Others and The Alchemist’s Diary. His work has also appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Literary Imagination, Siècle 21, American Poetry: The Next Generation, Present/Tense: Poets in the World, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, and Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Arab American Poetry. He was born in Detroit. Copyright © 2009 The Johns Hopkins University Press

Stay calm under fire

technique for escaping from a physical assault, which, although vital, is akin to shutting the barn door while the horse is trying to stampede through it. How to avoid the situation escalating in the first place is equally important. It is understandable that relatives may have concerns, but there is no need to be defensive if you feel confident in your clinical assessment. Keep your voice calm, your body language open and your manner polite and empathetic. Stand up and step back. In the case above, I RESOURCES was lucky that the husband quickly accepted my explanation. I believe this is because I gave him the opportunity to express his concerns but remained consistent with my care plan. It is our role to advocate for all our patients and it would have been wrong to ‘give in’ and allow the patient to be seen before others who were more acutely ill. Our own behaviour can have a positive influence on the behaviour of others, but it is not always easy to know what to do for the best. I am concerned that successful aggression management techniques are learnt only through trial and error. Nurse education needs to take a more proactive approach to teaching techniques for conflict resolution: when the need arises there is no time to consult a textbook NS

Stay calm under fire

technique for escaping from a physical assault, which, although vital, is akin to shutting the barn door while the horse is trying to stampede through it. How to avoid the situation escalating in the first place is equally important. It is understandable that relatives may have concerns, but there is no need to be defensive if you feel confident in your clinical assessment. Keep your voice calm, your body language open and your manner polite and empathetic. Stand up and step back. In the case above, I RESOURCES was lucky that the husband quickly accepted my explanation. I believe this is because I gave him the opportunity to express his concerns but remained consistent with my care plan. It is our role to advocate for all our patients and it would have been wrong to ‘give in’ and allow the patient to be seen before others who were more acutely ill. Our own behaviour can have a positive influence on the behaviour of others, but it is not always easy to know what to do for the best. I am concerned that successful aggression management techniques are learnt only through trial and error. Nurse education needs to take a more proactive approach to teaching techniques for conflict resolution: when the need arises there is no time to consult a textbook NS

Stay Calm, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs: Sign-Offs and Send-Ups in the Fiction of Thomas King

Stay Calm, Be Brave, Wait for the Signs: Sign-Offs and Send-Ups in the Fiction of Thomas King