Helping medical students develop lifelong strategies to cope with stress

Encouraging students to develop lifelong learning.

W9: Forum on Therapeutic Theater with Emphasis on Helping Children Cope With Stress and Mental Pressures

Using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. In fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. Children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. In other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Helping Your Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Teachers strive to help students like Forrest, Ida, and Eric develop stronger thinking skills, and we’ll return to their conversation later in this paper. Better thinking and practical problem solving skills are promised in higher education mission statements, course syllabi, and lists of desired student learning outcomes. There are many ways to talk about thinking skills. Terms such as critica...

Multiple strategies of Lake Victoria cichlids to cope with lifelong hypoxia include hemoglobin switching.

Many fish species adapt to hypoxia by reducing their metabolic rate and increasing hemoglobin-oxygen (Hb-O(2)) affinity. Pilot studies with young broods of cichlids showed that the young could survive severe hypoxia in contrast with the adults. It was therefore hypothesized that early exposure results in improved oxygen transport. This hypothesis was tested using split brood experiments. Broods...

w9: forum on therapeutic theater with emphasis on helping children cope with stress and mental pressures

using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. in fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. in other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...