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Attachment-Focused Integrative Reminiscence With Older African Americans: A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study, Myra Sabir, Suk-Young Kang
Attachment-Focused Integrative Reminiscence With Older African Americans: A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study, Myra Sabir, Suk-Young Kang
Myra Sabir
: Prior integrative reminiscence interventions have had a limited focus on attachment themes. The attachmentfocused integrative reminiscence (AFIR) intervention differs from these in its central emphasis on attachment themes. The wide range of health benefits resulting from integrative reminiscence may be due in part to reminiscing about, mourning, and integrating unresolved attachment experiences.
An Intensely Sympathetic Awareness: Experiential Similarity And Cultural Norms As Means For Gaining Older African Americans’ Trust Of Scientific Research, Myra Sabir
Myra Sabir
Well-known trust-building methods are routinely used to recruit and retain older African Americans into scientific research studies, yet the quandary over how to overcome this group’s hesitance to participate in research remains. We present two innovative and testable methods for resolving the dilemma around increasing older African Americans’ participation in scientific research studies. Certain specific and meaningful experiential similarities between the primary researcher and the participants, as well as clear recognition of the elders’ worth and dignity, improved older African Americans’ willingness to adhere to a rigorous research design. Steps taken in an intervention study produced a potentially replicable strategy …