Six months on: facing fears by Lyndon Jeffels

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Tokophobia. Causes, symptoms and psychotherapy by Corina-Ioana Paica, Diana-Antonia Iordachescu, Elena-Otilia Vladislav, Corina Gica, Anca Maria Panaitescu, Gheorghe Peltecu, Nicolae Gica

“…According to the literature, the role of psychological counseling for women facing fear of childbirth is important in the optimal management of emotional symptoms associated with pregnancy.…”
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TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS by Ana Gianini, Simona Ivančan, Kaja Podlogar, Magda Zupan, Uroš Krivec, Erika Šmid, Sanja Borčić, Simona Kotar Grandovec, Slavica Popovič, Anita Štih

“…Good multidisciplinary cooperation can reduce the frequency of potential complications can be reduced and hospitalization duration shortened. Patients often face fear and social isolation. Additional difficulties arise due to the underlying disease complicating or worsening the health condition. …”
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PROJETOS SOCIETÁRIOS EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA E O EXERCÍCIO PROFISSIONAL DE ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS DO PARÁ by Cilene Sebastiana da Conceição Braga, Ediane Moura Jorge, Lais Ribeiro Gama, Mickaely de Lima Gomes

“…The results show that social workers face fear, insecurity and deteriorating working conditions in the face of the pandemic.…”
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The Return of the Womb or the Gaia of Meaning: Mother Tongue by Ayhan Tek

“…Especially in the context of Jung's mother archetype theory, it is observed that people who face fear and similar traumatic situations take shelter in the archetype. …”
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Emotional distraction in the context of memory-based orienting of attention by Raeder, S, Bone, J, Patai, E, Holmes, E, Nobre, A, Murphy, S

“…Emotional distractors were incorporated into a speeded target detection task, in which memory cues were presented simultaneously with task irrelevant emotional faces. Fearful face distractors disrupted target detection significantly more than neutral faces and the additional disruption to task performance from fearful compared with neutral faces was positively correlated with trait anxiety scores. …”

Mind your words. Language and war metaphors in the COVID - 19 pandemic by Francesca Brencio

“… Through this contribution I aim to show how the role of language and metaphors is fundamental to our understanding of reality, affecting the way we ordinarily act and live, and particularly important in facing fears and anguish. This is more evident in these times of the COVID-19 pandemic, where our experiences of language and of the world seem to be characterised mainly by war terminology. …”
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Fear of Childbirth and Its Contributing Factor – An Exploratory Study at a Tertiary Care Hospital by Kanchan Sharma, Himanshu Vyas, Meenakshi Gothwal, Gomathi Arumugam

“…Conclusion: Majority of the primigravidae women face fear of childbirth, as contributed by various factors that affect fear of childbirth. …”
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The duration of disgusted and fearful faces is judged longer and shorter than that of neutral faces: the attention-related time distortions as revealed by behavioral and electrophy... by Dandan eZhang, Yunzhe eLiu, Xiaochun eWang, Yuming eChen, Yuejia eLuo

“…These findings indicated that specific neural mechanisms may underlie the attention effects of different subtypes of threat-related emotions on timing; compared with neutral faces, fearful faces are likely to attract more attentional resources while disgusted faces may attract less attentional resources for emotional processing. …”
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Patient and therapist experiences of exposure therapy for anxiety-related disorders in pregnancy: qualitative analysis of a feasibility trial of intensive versus weekly CBT by Fiona L. Challacombe, Katherine Sabin, Samantha Jacobson, Rose Tinch-Taylor, Laura Potts, Ben Carter, Vanessa Lawrence

“…Five themes were developed from the data that showed convergence from therapist and patient perspectives: ‘Acquiring tools to navigate the perinatal period’; ‘Motivated yet constrained by pregnancy’; ‘Having the confidence to face fears and tolerate uncertainty’; ‘Momentum with the need for flexibility’; ‘Being removed from the face-to-face world’. …”
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Healing and Rebalancing in the Aftermath of Colonial Violence: An Indigenous-Informed, Response-Based Approach by Catherine Kinewesquao Richardson, Kenna Aviles-Betel, Zeina Ismail-Allouche, Véronique Picard

“…Metaphorically, it can be talked about as being released or made available when an individual opens to discussing/facing fears and sorrows, distressing events and losses, and to finding a way to integrate them into their whole being. …”
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Impact of Virtual Reality Mental Health Nursing Simulation on Nursing Students’ Competence by Kim GM, Lim JY, Kim EJ, Yeom M

“…Nursing students often face fear, anxiety, and helplessness during mental health (MH) rotations, impeding the attainment of learning objectives in the MH nursing practicum. …”
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