Jumping to conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy D. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Jumping To Conclusions ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Missed Opportunity ◽  
As If

He walks down the hall toward you. You are the only two in the hallway. You look at him, ready to smile and offer a cheery “Good morning!” With eyes downcast, he walks by you as if you are not there. What is your reaction? • Indignation. “Who does he think he is, not bothering to even look at me?” • Irritation. “Why can’t he make the effort to say a simple hello?” • Superiority. “With such poor social skills, he shouldn’t even be a teacher.” • Meanness. Silently you smirk at his indifference, eager to tell co- workers about this perceived slight. • Affirmation. “I knew he didn’t like me, and since no one is around, he doesn’t even pretend!” • Anger. “How dare he act so superior!” It may be a challenge to interpret this scene as anything but snob­bery or poor manners. Yet the same curiosity and compassion that help us determine what our students need in order to learn can serve us well with other adults. The illusion in this scenario is our belief that we know the reason for another’s behaviors. The pitfall of this conclusion is the missed opportunity to wonder with good intentions. The risk to professional relationships is the narrow labeling of another’s behaviors and personalizing their intent. Asking ourselves “What else could it be?” implies that we have the power and presence of mind to press the pause button to offer a broader palette of possibilities. • Is he preoccupied with an upcoming meeting? • Is he concerned about a loved one? • Is he mentally preparing for his first class? • Is he an introvert who is much more comfortable keeping to himself than offering easy banter or automatic greetings? Why not be your best by offering a warm greeting to him with no expectation for receiving one in return? When faced with puzzling behaviors, we can avoid jumping to conclusions. We can take a moment, have a second thought. This opening of possibility offers a moment of grace to ourselves and our co- workers. We choose to suspend judgment for the good of the moment and for nourishing goodwill in schools.

Adolescent Safety Behaviors and Social Anxiety: Links to Psychosocial Impairments and Functioning with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

2021 ◽  
pp. 014544552110540
Author(s):  
Hide Okuno ◽  
Taylor Rezeppa ◽  
Tabitha Raskin ◽  
Andres De Los Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Safety Behaviors ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Research Personnel ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Social Skills Deficits ◽  
Multiple Domains

Socially anxious adolescents often endure anxiety-provoking situations using safety behaviors: strategies for minimizing in-the-moment distress (e.g., avoiding eye contact, rehearsing statements before entering a conversation). Studies linking safety behaviors to impaired functioning have largely focused on adults. In a sample of one hundred thirty-four 14 to 15 year-old adolescents, we tested whether levels of safety behaviors among socially anxious adolescents relate to multiple domains of impaired functioning. Adolescents, parents, and research personnel completed survey measures of safety behaviors and social anxiety, adolescents and parents reported about adolescents’ evaluative fears and psychosocial impairments, and adolescents participated in a set of tasks designed to simulate social interactions with same-age, unfamiliar peers. Relative to other adolescents in the sample, adolescents high on both safety behaviors and social anxiety displayed greater psychosocial impairments, evaluative fears, and observed social skills deficits within social interactions. These findings have important implications for assessing and treating adolescent social anxiety.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitan Sophistry: Grounding Politics in Disorder and Uncertainty

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Jon Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Ecology ◽  
The State ◽  
Legitimate Authority ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Death ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
As If

Conceptions of the State, Nation and politics, which are actually in play in ‘the West’, usually descend from totalitarian models which are primarily Platonic and monotheistic in origin. They aim for unity, harmony, wholeness, legitimate authority and the rejection of conflict, however much they claim to represent multiplicity. By expressing a vision of order, such models drive an idea of planning by prophecy as opposed to divination, as if the future was certain within limits and the trajectory was smooth. Chaos theory and evolutionary ecology shows us that this conception of both society and the future is inaccurate. I will argue that it is useful to look at the pre-socratic philosophers, in particular the so-called sophists Gorgias and Protagoras and Heraclitus with their sense of ongoing flux, the truth of the moment, and the necessary power of rhetoric in the leading forth of temporary functional consensus within the flux. This ongoing oscillation of conflict provides social movement and life rather than social death.

From Theodicy to Discipleship: Dostoyevsky's Contribution to the Pastoral task in The Brothers Karamazou

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Scott W. Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Loved One ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Moment

From the moment Jesus was hung on the cross, Christians have been compelled to address the fact of evil within God's creation. For the most part we have made the mistake of addressing this reality by logical means. It is not that there are no logical solutions to the apparent contradiction between the fact of evil and an omnipotent and benevolent God. The difficulty is far more fundamental. Logical solutions or answers do not address the fact of sin, evil and suffering in the world. At best, they are innocuous. At worst, they are destructive. For example, a pastor presiding at a funeral may well have an answer or two to the inevitable question raised by the grieving, 'Why did Jack have to die so young?' She might say that the wages of sin are death, and she might even speculate thatjack died young because he was such an accomplished sinner. Moreover, it is at least conceivable that our pastor could be correct in herjudgment!!! Nevertheless, those gathered would be right to be angry if the pastor said such a thing because her answer did not address the issue. Indeed, no answer can. The people gathered do not need answers. They already have biological, psychological and even theological answers. The people longfor presence instead. To be sure, they long for the presence of their departed loved one, but they require the presence of friends, relatives and God. The theodicy issue is addressed by such presence. The theodicy issue does not simply pose a question to be answered. It creates a context in which ministry may happen.

Rehabilitation of the Burn Patient

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barclay T Stewart ◽  
Samuel P Mandell ◽  
Nicole Gibran
Keyword(s):  
Injury Severity ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Total Body Surface Area ◽  
Rehabilitation Medicine ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Total Body ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Burn Depth ◽  
Need For Rehabilitation

Burn rehabilitation begins the moment the patient contacts the healthcare system and, for many patients, it never truly ends. Returning severely burned patients to their pre-injury level of function has become more challenging, as more severely burned patients survive their injury. The need for rehabilitation does not simply correspond with burn depth, total body surface area involved, or injury severity. Other factors also impact need for rehabilitation, such as anatomic location of injury (eg, across finger joints, face), additional psychosocial strain from a house fire or having an injured loved one, or body image concerns related to visible scarring. To meet these and other challenges posed by burn injuries, rehabilitation requires a multidisciplinary team including, but not limited to, nursing, surgery, burn therapy, rehabilitation medicine, vocational counseling, rehabilitation psychology, psychiatry, and nutrition. Accord­ingly, verification as a burn center by the American Burn Association requires a goal-oriented, multidisciplinary rehabilitation program. This chapter broadly discusses the spectrum and integral components of burn rehabilitation. This review contains 13 figures, 8 tables, and 71 references.  Key Words: burn, community integration, function, mental health, multidisciplinary, outcome, pain, quality of life, reconstruction, rehabilitation, therapy.

Occasional Notes

1902 ◽  
Vol 48 (202) ◽  
pp. 533-536
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Physical Basis ◽  
Toxic Effects ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Spring Meeting ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Remarkable Advance ◽  
As If

The Scottish Division entered upon an important discussion at their spring meeting. It has been evident for some time that the trend of opinion in the advanced school of pathology has been towards a theory of toxic causation of insanity. Indeed, it is inevitable that the extension of such a theory, pushed to its furthest limits, should permeate all departments of medicine and find enthusiastic supporters in our own specialty. Toxic causes, established in such diseases as diphtheria and tuberculosis, have eluded observation in cancerous affections, although the search has been skilful and prolonged. A poisoning of the system, which we now call toxæmia, has been recognised in the domain of psychiatry for many years. Schroeder van der Kolk was so assured of his opinion that he based his treatment of insanity upon the theory of a common causation in the overloaded, disordered condition of the great intestine; and, even at the dawn of medical science, the toxic effects of black bile were denominated melancholia, and described at interminable length. At any rate, these theoretical ideas were useful in drawing attention to the physical basis of mind, and in offering indications for the treatment of its disorders. Of late years, however, there has been a remarkable advance in the strictly scientific knowledge of the physiology and pathology of living organisms. The science of biology has been rapidly evolved, and it is a real struggle to keep pace with the more important conclusions formulated by the great army of workers. In our own particular sphere of interest, we could not but expect the moment when the toxæmic stalking-horse should be advanced to occupy territory hitherto held strongly by the old guard of a less materialistic psychology. Therefore the battle-field at Glasgow could occasion no surprise—it was as inevitable as the great Boer war. Not that the Old Guard were inactive in defending the positions in which they have been so long entrenched, or that they have entirely lost their scalps in the fray. It would rather seem as if they were ready to establish a zone of neutral territory—ground common to both, which may yet be extended by diligent sapping and mining on the part of the aggressors. So the day ended.

scholarly journals Vivenciando a parada cardiorrespiratória e óbito por familiares: estudo descritivo

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Edilene Aparecida Araújo Silveira ◽  
Ana Carolina Guimarães de Magalhães ◽  
Michely Izabel Alves ◽  
Vivianny Christine Marques Silva ◽  
Patrícia Peres Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Reference Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cardiorespiratory Arrest ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Interpretive Interactionism ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
The Moment

Aim: understand the experience of relatives of people who suffered cardiac arrest and died. Method: this is a descriptive, qualitative study that used, respectively, symbolic interactionism and interpretive interactionism as a theoretical and methodological reference. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview at the household of 11 relatives, from November 2015 to June 2016. Results: the analysis of the narratives evidenced several feelings such as anger, anxiety and hope. Two epiphanies were identified. The first epiphany, discovering that the relative died, had as categories: experiencing the moment of the CRA and receiving the news. In the second epiphany, coexisting with the immediate changes, the following categories were evidenced: remembering and feeling the pain of loss and changes after the death of the relative. Conclusion: the interactionist perspective made it possible to better understand the experience of relatives in waiting for the attendance of cardiorespiratory arrest and the subsequent reception of the news of death of their loved one.

Look for the charm

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy D. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Loved One ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
Stop Sign ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Look ◽  
The Moment

Sometimes we become so focused on the turmoil, we forget to see the charm that surrounds us. Consumed by our to- do lists and home obligations, we forget to look, listen, and feel. Plenty of obstacles can devitalize teachers. And sometimes we can get in the habit of stewing in our malaise. So we must be intentional about looking for and absorbing the charming sights, sounds, and feelings that surround us. Like vitamins for the soul, moments of charm can boost and revive. The simplest things can bring us back to the roots and bounty of our lives: The giggle of a child. The good- natured sparring of teenagers. The fearlessly perched raven watching traffic from a stop sign. The pattern of a spiderweb and the brilliance of the spider that wove it. The easy laughter of friends. The look of wonder when a student “gets it.” The beauty of young musicians as they personify music. The brisk gait of an elderly neighbor. The pure joy of singing with abandon. The first sip of your morn­ing coffee. The scent of a book. The frenzied cheers of parents at a sporting event. The embracing hug of a loved one. The luxury of living without pain. The buzz of energy when school begins and ends. The allure of these charming moments can be smothered by our intense focus on work and troubles. Yes, these simple moments of charm are always there for us . . . when we notice them. We can inhale their whimsy and encourage ourselves to smile, laugh, and be glad for the moment. Seeing, hearing, and appreciating simple things returns the aesthetic to our anesthetic worlds. When we look for and feel those moments of charm, we can be grateful. Those moments remind us we are alive in the world.

scholarly journals Vigs: Implikasies vir Suid-Afrikaanse verpleegkundiges – Deel 2

Curationis ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C Herbst
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Nurse Administrator ◽  
Prevention Of Infections ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Near Future

The hospital, as a reservoir of potential infection, and hospital staff, hold a greater risk for patients with AIDS than the patients hold for the staff. Nursing care of these patients thus centres on the prevention of infections. The nurse is also required to lean heavily on her psycho-social skills as patients are likely to feel depressed and isolated. At present we do not know what the incidence of AIDS may be in South Africa in the near future. An increase in incidence may pose logistic problems for the nurse administrator. At the moment the disease has implications for tutors and health educators regarding education for prevention, early detection and the management of patients with AIDS.

scholarly journals Henry Maudsley, M.D., F.R.C.P.Lond., Ll.D.Edin. (Hon.)

1918 ◽  
Vol 64 (265) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Frequent Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
As If

In my endeavour to provide a suitable obituary notice of Dr. Henry Maudsley, I shall make frequent use of his own words. and thus I begin with an extract from his obituary of his father-in-law, Dr. Conolly: “The history of the man is his character. When a man dies who has occupied a conspicuous place in the world's eye, there is a great noise of lamentation heard. At the moment it seems as if nothing ever could compensate for the mighty bereavement. But Nature's serene features, fixed in their majestic and unchanging calm, reveal no sympathy with the sorrows of her children. The individual loss is her gain, death is the new condition of life, and the funeral dirge the song of joy for the new Conception.”

scholarly journals Past the Post?: Screening Progress and Fascism's Return

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
David A Gerstner
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Satisfactory Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Physical Response ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Pretty Picture ◽  
As If

The 2016 presidential election triggers many unanticipated responses. Emotions run high. Political activists discover newfound energy. One’s place in the world has been unfixed, troubled, and unsettled. Philosophers and artists, stunned, rethink the terms for their critical positions and the formal aesthetics that shape their work. The moment is thus rife with anxiety in search of a response. As a film scholar, I find myself driven to script a response. Ironically, as I write I feel paused in time and space. My unfixedness in the shadow of the election put in motion what can best be described as quivering stasis. From my troubled place, an intellectual processing unfolded. I conjured ideas and images that invariably failed to yield a satisfactory response to what had come to pass. What had I seen? Felt? My psychical and physical response to current events might be likened to what Adorno refers to as “the capacity to shudder, as if goose bumps were the first aesthetic image” (437). It’s not a pretty picture. But we’ve known this all along.

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