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Acknowledging the intersubjective reality
Published in Antonella Sansone, Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive, 2020
A study conducted by Prof Vincent Reid, a psychologist from Lancaster University, found that the foetus in the third trimester actively seeks out information from the environment (Reid et al., 2017). The study showed that when a face-like image was projected through the uterus, the babies turned their heads to look at it. When the face looked upside down, and so harder to recognise as a face, the foetus did not react. This could happen because the way light falls in the womb primes him to recognise these “face-like” shapes. It may be due to prenatal visual experiences. This also shows that an unborn baby’s senses are already well developed and parents should interact with the baby while still in the womb. There are many ways of interacting and setting the roots for bonding and empathy. We know that straight after birth babies prefer to look at faces than any other stimuli. A human baby seems to be hard-wired to interact with human beings and establish meaningful human connection. However, this innate predisposition needs to be nurtured in the womb so as to unleash its potential.
Social status and disadvantage
Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve Dingle, S. Alexander Haslam
Importantly, the distinction between bonding and bridging capital is useful in helping us understand the health gradient. This is because people with higher status in groups typically have more bonding capital in being better able to sustain an active social life and more opportunities to develop a network of group memberships (Ball, Reay, & David, 2003; Bourdieu, 1979/1984). Moreover, the more social capital one has, the easier it is to extend social capital (because strong group memberships are a good platform for developing further strong group memberships; Hawe & Shiel, 2000), and this means that individuals with high bonding capital also tend to develop more bridging capital. Speaking to this point, a large body of evidence suggests that the more social groups a person belongs, to the happier and healthier they tend to be (Cohen & Janicki-Deverts, 2009; see also Haslam, Holme, et al., 2008; Iyer, Jetten, Tsivrikos, Postmes, & Haslam, 2009; see Jetten, Haslam, Iyer, & Haslam, 2010a, for an overview).
The Impact of an Intervention Program for HIV-Positive Women on Well-Being, Substance Use, Physical Symptoms, and Depression
Published in G. J. Huba, Lisa A. Melchior, Vivian B. Brown, Trudy A. Larson, A. T. Panter, Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs: Innovative Methods and Findings, 2020
Elaine M. Hockman, Marcia Andersen, Geoffrey A. D. Smereck
Experience teaches several techniques that may be useful. Some clients, those who turn inward with their pain, grief, or low self-esteem, may be reached through the nurse’s sharing of his/her own personal life experiences. Another medium, which seems to work, is the nurse’s use of metaphors or the arts to establish commonalty and touch the soul of the client. Intuition is another medium that quickly and effectively provides clues on how to touch a patient. Nurses should go with their “intuition” when using this as a medium for bonding. Another bonding medium is action caring, an action in which the nurse takes pains to help the client. This is especially true when the action is inconvenient to the nurse because it demonstrates value and speaks louder than words. Action caring may touch the client’s soul more than talking.
Relational Work Through Technology: Understanding the Impact of Telemental Health on the Therapeutic Alliance
Published in Smith College Studies in Social Work, 2023
A positive therapeutic bond is an integral element of the therapeutic relationship. It is demonstrated through research to be the largest factor in positive psychotherapy outcomes across therapeutic methods (Lingiardi et al., 2016). A positive bond can be initially difficult to build with patients who have life experiences that make it difficult to trust and collaborate with others (Lingiardi et al., 2016). Catching this relational dynamic at the outset of therapy and setting the goal and tasks to work on the patient’s ability to establish a working alliance would benefit the bond and could be crucial in healing relational wounds (Safran & Muran, 2000). A way to think of a bond between patient and therapist in a therapeutic alliance is that it “grows out of their experience of association in a shared activity. Partner compatibility (bonding) is likely to be expressed and felt in terms of liking, trusting, respect for each other, and a sense of common commitment and shared understanding in the activity. Thus, the specific nature of the bonds will vary as a function of the shared activity” (Bordin, 1994, p. 16).
Contested occupation in place: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion in seniors’ housing
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2023
Carri Hand, Kristin Prentice, Colleen McGrath, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Catherine Donnelly
Social relations are a key axis along which inclusion and exclusion of older adults can occur (Walsh et al., 2017) and research regarding social relations in seniors’ congregate living has focused on settings that involve health and social services, such as assisted living or CCRCs. For instance, a recent review of social capital in retirement villages found that, generally, they support new friendships and sense of community (Schwitter, 2020), with more ‘healthy’ residents in these settings having more social ties (Schafer, 2011). However, several studies in congregate living settings have described the impact of stigma related to function, illness, and impairment on social relations. For example, while functional limitations of assisted living residents can promote bonding over shared concerns (Sandhu et al., 2013), residents may self-exclude or exclude others from relationships due to intolerance related to disease and illness (Dobbs et al., 2008), physical decline (Roth et al., 2012), or frailty (Schwitter, 2020). Stigmatization also occurs in relation to age. For instance, negative attitudes about aging were expressed by residents in assisted living (Dobbs et al., 2008), older residents in retirement villages were excluded (Schwitter, 2020), and younger ‘Baby Boomer’ cohorts were reported to seek similar age-peers and exclude older residents (Roth et al., 2012). Stigmatization also occurs in relation to declining cognitive function, with reports of avoidance and exclusion of residents with cognitive decline (Roth et al., 2012; Schwitter, 2020) and dementia (Herron et al., 2020).
Exploring the after-hours social experiences of youth with disabilities in residential immersive life skills programs: a photo elicitation study
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Gillian King, Laura R. Hartman, Amy C. McPherson, Andrea DeFinney, Barbara Kehl, Alanna Rudzik, Andrea Morrison
Group bonding was also an important experience. Participants often used the word “family” when talking about their group experiences. As mentioned by Tanya: “We had a really social group, which was really nice. Like all of us loved to talk and there was often times we were yelling over one another and we sounded like a big Italian family.” According to Melissa: “We became like a family and we bonded over our similarities, whether it's [unclear] disability or who we are as people, we always have something in common with one another which was kind of cool.” Carl felt the same type of family connection: “They did not feel like friends to me, it felt like … a family. … Like it's like a bond, like a bond that starts as a friend, but then gradually you go to family.”