title: Just show up: the importance of caring attachments in emergency services.
abstract: Caring attachments to others are important for health, well-being, and longevity. This is no less true when EMS are providing needed medical services to victims at a vulnerable moment in the victims' lives. This article reviews the recent medical and behavioral science findings of the psychological and physiological benefits of caring attachments. Special attention is paid to the societal state of anomie and individuals' differing levels of optimal stimulation. The review then focuses on how attachments can be utilized by EMS as they provide services to victims and how these same health benefits may accrue to their colleagues onsite as well.
authors: Harvard Medical School, USA. raymond_flannery@hms.harvard.edu
authors: Raymond B
authors: RB
authors: Flannery
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D000850:Anomie; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D060731:Emergency Responders / Q000523:psychology*; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D009769:Object Attachment; D012944:Social Support