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Elizabeth Piazza-Bonin

Elizabeth Piazza-Bonin
Path of the Hummingbird

PhD

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August 2009 - August 2015
University of Memphis
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Objective: The current study examines how clinical wisdom develops and how it both is and can be influenced by professional training processes. In this way, the project is studying the intersection of developmental and systemic processes related to clinical wisdom. Method: Researchers analyzed the interviews of psychologists practicing in the US...
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This project entailed an intensive qualitative analysis of six-session psychotherapies conducted bythree eminent humanistic psychotherapists working with bereaved clients. The Innovative MomentsCoding System (IMCS), rooted in narrative therapy, is designed to measure change across therapy ori-entations. Research using the IMCS suggests that the psy...
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The current study is an extension of a complementary investigation examining links between process and outcome within six-session psychotherapies in which three eminent psychotherapists eachworked with a bereaved client, using person-centered, existential, and constructivist approaches, respectively. The Innovative Moments Coding System (IMCS) was...
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Disenfranchised grief is experienced when a mourner’s grief response is socially invalidated, unacknowledged, or discouraged. When the circumstances of death or the emotional reactions of the griever violate social norms, empathic failures can occur within the bereaved individual’s support systems. This study used conventional content analysis, an...
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Objective: This research study explores the concept of clinical wisdom. Method: Seventeen psychologists who were nominated multiple times by their peers as wise clinicians participated in an interview on clinical wisdom, analyzed using grounded-theory methods. Results: Participants described clinical wisdom as accepting that the best answers t...
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Recent studies have revealed an association between complicated grief-a severe, prolonged response to the loss of a loved one-and complicated spiritual grief-a spiritual crisis following loss. Furthermore, bereavement research has benefitted from a number of studies using qualitative inquiry as a means of examining the experiences of individuals gr...
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Anger often is conceptualized as a disruptive emotional force, but it may be seen as an adaptive internal signal that cues self-protective action. In this study, an adaptation of task analysis was used to develop a model of how anger is resolved in psychotherapy. Episodes with markers of client anger (N = 10) were identified in audio-taped psychoth...
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This article complements the narrative research that focuses on the process and content of what is said in psychotherapy by examining clients' and therapists' significant experiences beneath the in-session discourse. Toward this end, the authors recorded one midtherapy session from each of four dyads, and the therapist and client from each dyad wer...
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In the past few years, 26 states have changed their constitutions to restrict marriage to one man and one woman. There has been little research on the psychological effects of this political process on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people. In this qualitative project, 13 GLBT people were interviewed about their experience during th...

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