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01-01-2021 | Pediatric Radiology | Commentary
Teaching our learners to swim: attachment theory and the educator’s role in promoting mastery in pediatric radiology training
Authors:
Peter L. Loper Jr., Janet R. Reid
Published in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Issue 1/2021
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Excerpt
Dr. Richard Gunderman once quoted Nicolas Chamfort as saying, “To succeed as leaders, radiologists must understand psychology” [
1]. In other words, an understanding of psychology is as important as our radiology expertise if we are to succeed as teachers and leaders of our trainees. To start, the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby was the predecessor and mentor to the prolific psychologist Mary Ainsworth; together, their decades of research on the psychology of human development confirmed that perhaps the most important element in an individual’s developmental process is the presence of a secure attachment. …