🗣️‘I was traumatised... I've lived with this for almost 55 years' Woman’s Hour listener Debbie Nahid is an adult adoptee in her 50s. She joined anita rani to speak about her experience of adoption and how it’s impacted her life. 🎧 Listen here ⬇️ Adult Adoptee Movement

📢 Just published in Psychological Bulletin. In this meta-analysis of over 20,000 Strange Situations, the distribution of infant-parent attachment was: - 51.6% secure - 14.7% avoidant - 10.2% resistant - 23.5% disorganized A 🧵 (1/6) psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-79…

Chloe Mitchell is the 18th woman murdered in NI since 2020…👇🏼

Attachment behaviours in adults with intellectual disabilities in assisted living facilities: representations from direct‐care staff dlvr.it/Sr3NsQ

‘A stain on Ireland’s conscience’: identification to begin of 796 bodies buried at children’s home theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

Apply by 31/07 👇🏻 #PhD #Studentship: How #Children Get “In Sync” with their #Caregivers and How Optimal #Synchrony Benefits Child #Development, #Health and #Wellbeing With Pascal Vrtička EssexPsychology University of Essex Research at Essex UK home students only. jobs.ac.uk/job/DAW604/phd…

Congratulations to Dr @NatashaDalton_ UlsterUni Psychology on submitting her final thesis on 'Exploring Attachment State of Mind, Trauma, Reflective Functioning, and the Lived Experience of Mid-Life Adoptees' - well done supervisors Dr M McLaughlin and Prof T Cassidy #PhinisheD

Excited to be giving a talk at Metropolitan Arts Centre on #AttachmentTheory as part of Seed Talks on the 19th of September. See below for more info/tickets🥳 themaclive.com/event/the-psyc…

Just one week to go before I get the opportunity to talk about my favourite topic! #AttachmentTheory 🎉 UlsterUni Psychology #AcademicTwitter

⭐️Register for our October 2023 training courses now⭐️ 🔧Introduction to qualitative process evaluation in healthcare - 18th Oct 2023 📝Supervising a qualitative or mixed-methods PhD - 31st Oct 2023 - ✨NEW course! ✨ Find out more and register here: ucl.ac.uk/qualitative-he…

📢 Our new study in American Psychological Association! Sibling comparison design reveals: Sibling receiving more maternal sensitivity➡️ improved language skills over time. 👩‍👧‍👦 890 Canadian children (ages 2-5) w/ André Plamondon & Jenny Jenkins. UCalgary Arts ACHRI OISEUofT 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-04…

🚨Abstract submission for our conference on 28/29 February 2024 has been extended! New deadline 31st October 2023🚨 Theme: Exploring progress: qualitative health research through crisis, disruption and emergence Find out more & submit abstract! ⬇️⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/qualitative-he…

"10 Distinctive Qualities of Qualitative Research" - The unique nature of #qualitative inquiry is characterized by a distinctive set of attributes, all of which impact the design of qualitative research one way or the other bit.ly/RDR-10qualities

"Analyzable Qualitative Research: The Total Quality Framework Analyzability Component" - Is not about concrete procedures to follow but the ability to conceptualize & integrate practices that maximize the validity & the usefulness of a #qualitative study bit.ly/2oEC9e5

Important new data on how #parent-reported temperamental attributes of negative emotionality play a small yet significant role in the number and concordance of ##insecure (especially resistant type) attachment relationships #children develop with their #mothers and #fathers 👇🏻

🚨New pub!🚨 Scripted #attachment representations/age 18 predict romantic relationship quality/age 30 in the SECCYD (pre-reg; N=479). Why interesting? Bc these scripts are incrementally doing so beyond traditional narrative-based attachment measures. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ic…

The key to raising secure children? Parental sensitivity. In our op-ed, Dr. Audrey-Ann Deneault and I explore why sensitive #parenting from fathers and mothers is critical for a child's emotional security and well-being. UCalgary Arts ACHRI theconversation.com/the-key-to-rai… via The Conversation Canada