Thursday 23 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 22 - Room 19
Chair and Discussant:
Neter Efrat
Division: Division 8: Health Psychology
The proposed symposium, "Stress Mitigation at the Macro, Meso, and Micro Levels", offers a timely and multidisciplinary exploration of stress as a pervasive health challenge across societal layers. Each presentation introduces a novel lens—from evolutionary theory to immunological biomarkers—highlighting innovative approaches to understanding and addressing stress.
The symposium begins with a foundational perspective on chronic stress as a mismatch between human evolution and modern environments (#1, Orbán), setting the stage for applied solutions: from policy-level interventions in health crises (#2, Roussel & Van den Broucke) and migration (#3, Rajan, Eugene & Coen), to developmental health in early childhood (#4, Kolopaking & Dockrell), and frontline resilience in wartime healthcare (#5, Blum and Kushnir). Together, these contributions and the discussion (#6, Neter) form a cohesive narrative that bridges theory, policy, and practice, offering actionable insights for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers alike.
The titles of the proposed abstracts are:
1. Evolutionary Mismatch and Modern Maladaptation: An Evolutionary Health Psychology Perspective on Chronic Stress and Disease. From Fiji.
2. Building New Imaginaries in Health Crisis Management: Psychology to the Rescue of Health Policies. From Belgium.
3. Im/migration: Global health crisis & politics. From the US and UK
4. Integrating Whole-Child and One-Health Perspectives in Early Development: A Health Psychology Lens. From Indonesia and UK.
5. Wartime Workability and pro-inflammatory cytokines in a group of hospital healthcare professionals. From Israel.
6. Discussion. Neter (proposer, from Israel).
