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Collaboration Through Commitment and Teamwork
Published in Mindi K. McKenna, Perry A. Pugno, William H. Frist, Physicians as Leaders, 2018
Mindi K. McKenna, Perry A. Pugno, William H. Frist
In addition to preparing the agenda itself, an important staff role is to assure that the individual actually chairing or leading the meeting is well prepared to do so. Reviewing a meeting agenda with its chair, clarifying the decisions to be made (including the alternatives available), and ensuring that appropriate background material is available again serves to facilitate the overall effectiveness of the meeting and ultimately the effectiveness of its decisions. Helping a committee chair to be well prepared for the meeting and having anticipated additional information available during the meeting may seem like somewhat “invisible” support for the aspiring physician leader, but it is nevertheless an opportunity to substantially influence the direction of decisions and the carrying out of plans in ways that ultimately will support the aspiring physician leader’s objectives. “A leader will share what they have learned. For it is in sharing knowledge that we can gain from the points of view and insights of others and thereby see the world through different eyes per se, as well as exponentially expand our knowledge bases. A leader realizes that it is through others that true leadership thrives and survives. The utmost example of this is in their ability to develop, mentor, and encourage leadership in others. A true attestation to leadership is when their protégée has become perhaps a ‘better’ leader than themselves, that the physician leader has achieved success. (Socrates-Plato). Leaders develop other leaders.”Penny Tenzer, md Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Director, Family Medicine Residency Program University of Miami School of Medicine
The relationship between social support, self-efficacy, and asthma outcomes in older adults
Published in Journal of Asthma, 2023
Naomi Greenfield, Jacqueline Becker, Sunit Jariwala, Juan Wisnivesky, Alex Federman, Jonathan M. Feldman
Given the aforementioned limitations, the current study framework can be used to inform a number of future research directions. First, examining these same measures longitudinally will allow for causal, predictive relationships to be established. Second, the multifaceted nature of social support is also an area rich with future directions in this realm. An emerging literature on social support suggests that “invisible” support, or support that is not consciously recognized by the recipient may be the most beneficial kind of support, as it has no potential to harm self-efficacy (46). Because this kind of support is not consciously registered by the support recipient it requires a supportive other to participate in the study. Understanding if this kind of support positively contributes to asthma outcomes in older adults may give rise to dyadic interventions where family members learn how to support their loved ones in ways that do not harm their sense of self-efficacy, and in turn, their asthma outcomes. Other aspects of support that are worth examining are perceived support availability, asthma-specific support, and satisfaction with received support.
Effects of a low-intensity Early Start Denver Model-based intervention delivered in an inclusive preschool setting
Published in International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Jessica Tupou, Hannah Waddington, Larah van der Meer, Jeff Sigafoos
Peers were present during all intervention sessions and were frequently involved in the intervention. However, interactions with peers were not orchestrated by the interventionist and peers were not trained to participate in or mediate the intervention in any way. Instead, the interventionist aimed to encourage and facilitate naturally occurring interactions with peers. For example, when peers did something interesting (e.g. poured water into a hole in the sandpit), the interventionist encouraged the participating child to pay attention to and imitate and/or expand on the play action. Likewise, when a participating child did something interesting (e.g. a big jump onto a crash pad), the interventionist encouraged peers to pay attention to and imitate and/or expand on the play action. Where reinforcement was not provided by peers or the play action itself, the interventionist provided reinforcement through use of praise and positive affect. When a participating child was interacting with a peer, the therapist attempted to act as ‘an invisible support’ by standing behind the participating child and scaffolding the interaction using least-to-most response prompting, as recommended in the G-ESDM manual (Vivanti et al.2017). For example, if one of Ian’s peers asked him to pass an item at the craft table, the interventionist (positioned behind Ian), would use least-to most prompting to support Ian to follow the peer’s request.
Social context, interaction and expectation play a role in alcohol use amongst Australian and Danish women aged 50 to 70 years
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2020
Mette Grønkjær, Julie Dare, Kathrine Hoffmann Kusk, Line Traumer, Lynsey Uridge, Celia Wilkinson
Perspectives from ritual theory by Erving Goffman (1972) and Joseph Gusfield (1987) were applied in the discussion of findings. The theoretical perspectives included rituals of passage, sociability and mood-setting as well as the perspective that rituals permeate every aspect of our social encounters. For Goffman (1972), social structures are created and recreated through rituals of interaction. Rituals bring order to chaos; they are necessary for us to able to hold on to a common definition of reality. From this perspective, rituals are part of the invisible support structure which keeps the everyday in place; they are the taken-for granted that is not noticed. Gusfield (1987) makes a distinction between different types of rituals associated with alcohol use. Mood-setting is probably the most obvious function of alcohol, however mood-setting cannot stand alone; it is always related to the social definitions of drink. Another central function of alcohol is passage. Drinking marks the transition from work to leisure, and from the everyday to the festive etc. The third ritual function of alcohol is sociability, in which drinking solidifies personal relationships. Alcohol is a ‘social lubricant’, a dissolver of social hierarchy and formality, and it signals the exposure of self to others within an atmosphere that is also protective (Gusfield, 1987).