Researchers say owners of pets can consider them an extension of their own identity – an important thing to bear in mind during disaster responses. Joshua Trigg, Kirrilly Thompson, Bradley Smith and Pauleen Bennett suggested that preservation of each unique and composite pet-owner identity should be considered by those in disaster planning. “In order to understand why different pet owners think and behave the way they do in regard to disaster threat, we need to look beyond the boundaries of pet-attachment and basic pet-owner ‘similarity’ explanations,” they wrote in the journal, Social >>>

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A diverse team of collaborators from Pacific University, Stress Reduction Clinic, and Hillsboro Police Department continue momentum on a grant funded training and research project designed to enhance resiliency and performance of police officers. Late in 2015, the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary Integrative Health awarded Pacific University's School of Professional Psychology a grant of $379,500 over a two-year period to further develop and study the effects of Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training (MBRT) with police officers. MBRT is a mind-body fitness course >>>