Attending and Presenting at Scientific Conferences:
Lynne M. Bianchi in Research during Medical Residency, 2022
When presenting your work, state your hypothesis and results without emotional attachment and without overstating findings. You are presenting data, not your opinions on the outcomes. Use concise, simple sentences, avoiding excessive adjectives and “flowery” descriptions. Avoid words like “hope,” “disappointed,” or “pleased.” Avoid stating that values are higher or lower if there is no statistically significant difference. There is no need to say anything about data being “almost significant” or “trending toward significant.” Others will find that misleading, at best. If your results are not statistically significant, say so and provide your statistical outcomes for viewers to see.
Broken Bonds
Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, Joseph L. Wetchler in Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, 2013
Attachment theory states that the essence of a secure bond is mutual emotional accessibility and responsiveness. This principle then guides the EFT therapist when he or she is helping the couple to make sense of the affair, deal with their emotions, deal with the task of forgiveness, recreate trust, and the beginnings of a renewed, more secure bond. Attachment theory and the principles of humanistic therapy on which EFT is based (Johnson, 1996; Johnson & Denton, 2002) suggest that there is no purely behavioral or predominately cognitive way of healing the hurts and injuries of events such as affairs. The strong emotions that arise must be accepted, dealt with, and then used to create specific kinds of responsive healing interactions–the kinds of interaction that are typical of the main change event in EFT–entitled a softening (Johnson, 1996), where spouses are emotionally engaged, accessible, and responsive to each other and so can comfort and soothe each other, providing an antidote to hurt and helplessness.
Confirmation of a poor prognosis
Janet Dunphy, Mary Kiely in Communication in Palliative Care, 2020
Lay people, usually, do not have the biological knowledge of diseases to understand what is happening in the body during the final months and weeks of life. They see food as a comfort and a remedy: a way of fighting the illness. Importantly, meals and eating are highly ‘loaded’ with emotional attachment. Memories are often made up of family events and celebrations where food was the main focus. It is very important to clearly state to the family that a carer cannot be a curer in these circumstances, and that many or most patients with terminal illness ultimately are unable to eat enough to avoid weight loss and maintain activity levels. In most circumstances they genuinely won’t have realised this. Patients often have their own feelings of guilt and shame relating to the changes in their appearance. Feelings of ‘wasting away’ are typical and are particularly difficult for men to cope with. Honest discussions can help with this. In the same way that investigations are not done when treatment is stopped, advising patients not to weigh themselves is very helpful. Monitoring a patient’s weight is clinically useful during treatment. At the point of confirmation of a poor prognosis, there is no longer any benefit in him weighing himself. With kind and clear communication, firmly held beliefs and attitudes can be altered to benefit a situation that is changing for the worse.
Insecure Attachment and Drug Misuse among Women
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2019
Attachment theory refers to one’s biologically rooted tendency to create strong emotional bonds with their caregivers in the first years of life (Wyrzykowska, Głogowska, & Mickiewicz, 2014). The need for warmth, security, and connection is built-in and essential for the infant’s survival (Bowlby, 1958). Each child has an attachment behavioral system that in times of distress is activated, prompting the child to seek an attachment figure for support and comfort. When the child’s needs are sufficiently met, the system is less activated and the child is able to move away, both physically and metaphorically, from the caregivers in order to explore other relationships (Wang & Stalker, 2016). When the child does not receive the adequate response needed from the caregiver, insecure attachment styles are formed. Each child develops his own set of expectations, or internal working models, in regards to their caregivers’ responsiveness and availability to their needs (Winham et al., 2015). These models are internalized by the child and develop into schemas for how the adult sees him- or herself and interpersonal relationships in the future (Winham et al., 2015).
Structure and Measurement Invariance of Adult Romantic Attachment
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2019
Jacob S. Gray, William L. Dunlop
In adulthood, romantic attachment has been implicated in a variety of personal and relationship outcomes. Secure individuals tend to have higher self-esteem and more positive reactions to relationship conflict (Beck, Pietromonaco, DeBuse, Powers, & Sayer, 2013; Murray, Holmes, & Griffin, 2000). In contrast, individuals with avoidant and anxious attachment tendencies report lower levels of relationship satisfaction, relative to securely attached individuals (Li & Chan, 2012). Avoidant individuals also tend to report less sexual desire for their partners and exhibit a greater tendency to withdraw from their partner during times of emotional distress (Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005). Anxious individuals tend to report seeking out their partner in times of emotional distress and also report more negative evaluations of their partners' motives (Campbell et al., 2005; Kimmes, Durtschi, Clifford, Knapp, & Fincham, 2015). In summary, attachment theory holds great relevance for understanding the nature and functioning of adult romantic relationships.
Adult attachment and online dating deception: a theory modernized
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2020
Marissa A. Mosley, Morgan Lancaster, M. L. Parker, Kelly Campbell
As the research on technology use in romantic relationships continues to grow, an adult attachment perspective provides a useful lens for understanding the interaction between relationships and technology’s benefits and risks. A fundamental assumption of attachment theory is that one’s emotional arousal is affected personal interactions with significant others (Bowlby, 1973). The rapidly expanding use of technology in relationships is essentially challenging and changing what we have considered fundamental to the attunement process associated with attachment relationships. One means of reexamining the role of technology in adult attachment is to isolate the effect of technology from those of in-person relationships by examining online-only relationships. Catfish relationships are one example of technology-maintained relationships, characterized by a lack of in-person interactions (Campbell, in press). Our results offer preliminary findings for the significance of attachment anxiety and avoidance as predictors of perpetrating or being a target of catfishing. Specifically, the main findings of this study were indicate that men are more likely to be perpetrators and women are more likely to be targets of catfishing. Attachment avoidance was an independent predictor of catfishing status. However, avoidance was no longer significant when accounting for attachment anxiety, suggesting that anxiety is a more significant consideration in predicting catfishing status.
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