Authentic Connections Groups:  Fostering Resilience Among Mothers who are Health Care Professionals

Suniya Luthar, Ph.D.

Introduction

Suniya S. Luthar is Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University and Professor Emerita at Columbia University’s Teachers College.  After receiving her Ph.D. (Distinction) from Yale University in 1990, she served on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and the Child Study Center at Yale. Between 1997 and 2013, she was at Columbia University’s Teachers College, where she also served as Senior Advisor to the Provost (2011-2013). 

Dr. Luthar's research involves vulnerability and resilience among various populations including youth in poverty, children in families affected by mental illness, and teens in upper-middle class families (who reflect high rates of symptoms relative to national norms).  Her recent research is focused on motherhood, with exploration of factors that best help mothers negotiate the challenges of this life-transforming role, and applying these research-based insights to foster resilience through supportive group-based interventions.  Similar interventions are now being used with adults in other stressful, caregiving roles including physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and school counselors, advisors, and teachers. 

In addition to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, Dr. Luthar has published several books including Resilience and vulnerability in childhood and Poverty and children’s adjustment.  She has served as Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Development and Psychopathology, and as Chair of a grant review study section at the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Luthar is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was elected to the Governing Council of the Society for Research on Child Development, and to the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committee on Socioeconomic Status, as well as APA’s Council of Representatives.  She has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for Psychological Science and is also Fellow of the APA, and of APA’s Divisions 7 and 37.   From APA, she received a Dissertation Award (Div. 37) and the Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award (Div. 7).  Other awards include a Research Scientist Development (K) Award from the National Institutes of Health, an American Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research on Intelligence, and an award for Integrity and Mentorship from the Society for Research in Child Development's Asian Caucus.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe how physician mothers are at increased risk of stress and burnout.

2. Identify the Authentic Connections Groups:  Sample Session Topics and messages subsumed.

3. Discuss underlying mechanisms of "Authentic Connections Group" intervention.

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Relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:

Mark Frye, M.D. - Mayo Clinic

Grant Support: AssureRx, Janssen R&D, Myriad, Pfizer Consultant: Janssen R&D, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp., Myriad Genetics, Sunovion, Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Neuralstem, Inc.

CME/Travel: American Physician Institute, CME Outfitters

Speaker:  Suniya Luthar, Ph.D. - Founder, Executive Director of Authentic Connections

No relevant financial relationship(s) with industry:
Kriti Gandhi, M.D., Allison Holgerson, Ph.D., Matej Markota, M.D., Charlene Nelson, Reem Shafi, M.B.B.S., Larua Suarez, M.D.

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