Creating a ‘social zeitgeber’ to synchronize family emotional rhythms: A new therapeutic approach in child and adolescent psychiatry

Wiss, M.; Tordjman, Sylvie

doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2017.07.001

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“…This unified approach to understanding of the etiology of depression seeks to combine biological theories of depression, which have demonstrated that depression often is associated with a disturbance in several biological rhythms such as sleep, appetite, hormone levels, and activity cycles (Wirz-Justice, 2006), with the fact that depression is also often "triggered" by loss events such as death and divorce (Burger et al, 2020). Thus, it has been postulated that disruptions in important family relationships, such as through death or divorce, can result in a loss or disruption in "social zeitgebers," and that these social disturbances may then result in disturbance of biological rhythms, such as the disruptions in biorhythms and sleep seen with depression (Ehlers et al, 1988(Ehlers et al, , 1993Wiss & Tordjman, 2016). An extension of this theory to the present data would be that loss or disruption of social zeitgebers through the death of family members may also cause disruptions in sleep that could lead to increased risk for suicide.…”

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Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents

Ehlers,

Gilder,

Benedict

et al. 2024

Transcult Psychiatry

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American Indians / Alaska Natives (AI/AN) bear a high burden of suicide, the reasons for which are not completely understood, and rates can vary by tribal group and location. This article aims to identify circumstances reported by a community group of American Indian adolescent participants to be associated with their depression and/or suicide. American Indian adolescents (n = 360) were recruited from contiguous reservations and were assessed with a semi-structured diagnostic interview. Twenty percent of the adolescents reported suicidal thoughts (ideation, plans), an additional 8% reported a history of suicide attempts, and three deaths due to suicide were reported. Suicidal behaviors and major depressive disorder (MDD) co-occurred and were more common among female adolescents. The distressing events that adolescents most often reported were: death in the family, family disruption, peer relationship problems, and school problems. All of these events were significantly associated with suicidal behaviors, however those with suicidal acts were more likely to report death in the family. Those with MDD but no suicidal behaviors were more likely to report disruptions in the family. Disruptions in falling asleep were also associated with suicidal behaviors and having experienced a death in the family. Disruptions in important relationships, particularly through death or divorce, may be interpreted as a loss or disruption in “social zeitgebers” that may in turn disturb biological rhythms, such as sleep, thus potentially increase the risk for MDD and/or suicide. Prevention programs aimed at ameliorating the impact of disruptions in important relationships may potentially reduce suicidal behaviors in AI/AN adolescents.

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Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents

Ehlers,

Gilder,

Benedict

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Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Wagner et al (2015) mentioned that people have a strong tendency to affiliate with other people, especially in emotional situations, and contribute to the regulation of evolved emotions. As such, the person and the other share simultaneous movement, tempo similarity, coordination, and smoothness in their relationships (Kimura & Daibo, 2006;Wagner et al, 2015;Whall, 1981;Wiss & Tordjman, 2016). The mother-child bond is the most common form of the emotional bond created from dyadic synchrony characterizing the relationship as mutually responsive and moves beyond a focus on parent or child effects to integrate a family systems view (Debrot et al, 2013;Lindsey et al, 2008;Reyna, Pickler, & Brown, 2012;Tsai, Barnard, Lentz, & Thomas, 2011;Walker-Andrews, Krogh-Jespersen, Mayhew, & Coffield, 2011).…”

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“…For instance, those who are emotionally fused set aside their choices to achieve harmony with others and within the system. Emotional fusion commonly exists in families, both extended and nuclear, in groups, or pairs (Wiss & Tordjman, 2016). When a higher degree of emotional fusion takes place, a high degree of sensitivity of people will reflect a state of Nurse Media Journal of Nursing, 9(2), 2019, 186…”

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“…Any human relations involve high emotional content where the expressed emotion does not always correspond to what the person is experiencing within. Emotional dissonance can happen when the person experiences low confidence in establishing relations, emotional and mental exhaustion, overwhelming situations, or psychological difficulties (Al-Shawaf, Conroy-Beam, Asao, & Buss, 2016;Wiss & Tordjman, 2016). Also, Hochschild (2003) surmised that emotional dissonance causes one to alienate their true feelings, which leads to emotional strain and emotional exhaustion.…”

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Amo Ergo Sum — I love, Therefore, I am – Emotional Synchrony: A Norris’ Method of Concept Clarification

Tuppal

Reñosa

Ninobla

et al. 2019

Nurs. Med. J. Nursing

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Background: Nursing is an interpersonal process that requires a deeper emotive-caring and communion-encounter with a higher degree of emotional synchrony. However, the social, cultural, ethical, economic, legal, and technological demands make it intangible and indefinable.Purpose: To identify and delineate the antecedents, defining attributes, and outcomes of emotional synchrony using both empirical and theoretical literature.Methods: This concept analysis used the Norris’ method of concept clarification. Electronic databases such as OVID, Web of Science, CINHAL, PsychInfo, SocIndex, PubMed, and ProQuest were used to search the keyword ‘emotional synchrony.’ There were fifty-two sources included in the inductive thematic analysis to identify, analyze, recognize, and report the themes generated from the corpus. The discussion is grounded in light of the Theory of Nursing as Caring to elucidate its utility within the parlance of nursing as caring.Results: The Model of Patterning Emotional Synchrony offers a new perspective toward a meaningful synchronous experience in the communion of beings that illuminates a soul-felt connectedness through the encounter, presence, and bond. The emotional synchrony’ is a phenomenon of caring integration where an intricate dance through a triadic-synchronistic rhythm of fusion, attunement, and effervescence contribute to the personhood, growth in reflection, and capacity to care. Also, as the emotional synchrony becomes an outward expression of caring, and as a manifestation of healing-caring-moment, the person embodies caring as a mode of being and views all persons as caring.Conclusion: The model explicates that it is the emotional synchrony where the person develops a soul-felt connection with others. It is with emotional synchrony that refuels the synergy and transcendence towards a communion of beings to embody Amo Ergo Sum—I love. Therefore, I am.

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Approches thérapeutiques des troubles du sommeil et des rythmes chez l’enfant avec TSA

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Creating a ‘social zeitgeber’ to synchronize family emotional rhythms: A new therapeutic approach in child and adolescent psychiatry

Cited by 5 publications

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Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents

Social zeitgeber and sleep loss as risk factors for suicide in American Indian adolescents

Amo Ergo Sum — I love, Therefore, I am – Emotional Synchrony: A Norris’ Method of Concept Clarification

Approches thérapeutiques des troubles du sommeil et des rythmes chez l’enfant avec TSA

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