Attached Mission
Our mission is to make relationship science approachable and relatable by discussing relationships in pop culture and breaking down academic research into usable information. There is also a bunch of bad relationship advice floating out there, so we use science and our family therapy expertise to determine whether that advice is good or bad. We believe that all relationships are important, and focus on parents, children, friendships, and romantic partnerships.
Attached Team
Patricia N. E. Roberson, PhD is the host of Attached. She is faculty in the College of Nursing out of the University of Tennessee. When she is not obsessively watching romcoms or the latest period drama, she teaches graduate statistic courses and leads a team of undergraduate research students from psychology and nursing. Her research focuses on how marriages and families impact health for low-income and rural populations. Ongoing projects include the role of these close relationships on diabetes management for families in rural Appalachia and how to improve the close relationships for pain management among breast cancer patients living in Appalachia.
Sarah Woods, PhD, LMFT-Supervisor is a co-host of Attached. When she is not re-watching episodes of The Office and Schitt's Creek, she is an Associate Professor and Director of Behavioral Health at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she teaches in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, TEDx speaker, and researcher who studies how family relationships get under our skin to impact our physical health. Sarah’s research dovetails with her award-winning focus on mental health advocacy, as well as her emphasis on the craft of teaching and supervising developing therapists. To this end, she recently co-edited the book Case Studies in Couple and Family Therapy: Through the Lens of Early Career Professionals (Routledge).
Sesen Negash, PhD, LMFT is a co-host of Attached. During off peak hours, Sesen loves watching political and legal dramas. By day she is an associate professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program at San Diego State University (SDSU). She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and an approved clinical supervisor with AAMFT. She is also the co-director of the Center for Achieving Black Wellness and Anti-Racist Education. Her program of research examines relational dynamics among couples and families post-incarceration. Her research also examines the interpersonal implications of particular sexual behaviors (i.e., pornography, emotional infidelity, and sexual infidelity) on monogamous dating relationships, and the health implications of at-risk-sexual behaviors for monogamous couples.
Jacob Priest, PhD, LMFT is a co-host of Attached. When he’s not obsessively watching reality television, Jacob is an Associate Professor of Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Iowa. He also serves as the director of the LGBTQ Counseling Clinic, has an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, and has a private practice at the Counseling Center of Iowa City. He is a frequent contributor to Iowa Public Radio and his work has been featured on outlets such as CNN. Jacob is the author of the recently published book, The Science of Family Systems Theory (Routledge). He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with his wife Chelsea (the person who originally got him hooked on reality TV), his son Keenan, and five cats – Albert, Louie, Woodward, Lyndon, and Cecilia.
All opinions expressed on this podcast represent the opinions of the Attached co-hosts, and do not represent the opinions of their respective employers.