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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Care-giving"”.
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… relation” and its attendant ethics of care. Bringing together mental disability with an analysis of both gender and race, Kittay’s work undergirds my own project’s intervention into readings of American literature between the Civil War and World War II, along with recent debates (for …
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Subjectivity in the 'maid'/'madam' relationship and its effects on the occupational child care-giving functions of the domestic worker
… does, as of low status and impinges on the child caregiving functions of the domestic worker. The extent to which racial factors are operant was assessed. Accounts were obtained from both 'maids' and 'madams' through in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The approach to the transcribed data was …
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Towards developing an understanding of factors influencing care giving provided to children between birth and 6 years within the Groblershoop community
… personal, social and environmental factors of caregivers from the Groblershoop community to determine whether these factors influence the caregiver’s ability to provide care to children from birth to six years. Using the Human Capabilities Approach and the Ethics of Care Perspective, this study …
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Caregivers' experience of caring for a family member with schizophrenia in conditions of poverty
… was to explore the experiences of South African caregivers caring for a family member with schizophrenia, living in conditions of poverty. Of particular interest in this research was to explore the factors that present challenges to their capacity to care and the factors that facilitate coping. A …
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Father Involvement and Identity: A Theoretical Examination
… a guide to understanding fathers' involvement in care giving activities and responsibilities with their own children. Building on the work of Stryker (1980, 1987) it was hypothesized that commitment would impact fathers' care giver identity, and that care giver identity would predict father …
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Ways of Being in Home and Community: Language Socialization of Children With Autism in Multilingual South Asian Immigrant Families
… based on the family's cultural background and care-giving styles.
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Technology and International Student Parenting: Implications for Research and Design of Digital Childcare Technologies
… These devices facilitate modern parents in their care-giving of young children due to their prevalence in the home environment. The use of these devices is especially common by international student mothers of young children who subscribe to a multiplicity of roles such as being a productive …
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Usability engineering of interactive voice responsive (IVR) systems in oral users of Southern Africa
… information system that enables people who are caregivers for HIV/AIDS infected children to access relevant care-giving information by using a telephone in their native language of Setswana in Botswana, Southern Africa. The BGR system allows soccer fans to access results of recently played …
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Maternal Effort, Food Quality, and Cortisol Variation During Lactation in Propithecus coquereli in Northwestern Madagascar
The duration and quality of the infant care mothers provide is paramount to investigating life history theory. Maternal care is the principal determinant of infant survival and future reproductive success. Lactation is the most energetically expensive activity for mammals, in turn causing lactating …
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The motor development of HIV positive and HIV negative children aged three to six years, residing in institutions and in foster care
… with HIV/AIDS in institutions and in foster care using the Peabody Motor Developmental Scale (PDMS II). A description of socio-economic conditions to the children, to compare the health status of HIV positive children, to establish and compare developmental quotients of children across two …
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Mothers' Lived Experience of Parenting an Infant/Young Child with Special Needs in a Rural Context
… with special needs requires performing extra care giving duties and mothers living in rural communities face additional challenges obtaining health and social support services. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experience of parenting young children with …
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The Gress Project: a threshold thesis
… various attempts at innovation, systems of care giving, and the site of the proposed interventions. The architectural design is described in detail based upon the aforementioned concept of threshold.</p>
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HIV/AIDS clients and their caregivers' perceptions of a community home-based care support programme in Botswana : a qualitative study
… 2001). The study explores HIV/AIDS clients' and caregivers' perceptions of the Community Home-Based Care support programme. The people involved in the community home-based care programme included nurses, family welfare educators (FWEs), social workers, community volunteers, and drivers. An …
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PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE: UNMET NEEDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES
… can be increased by unmet needs or fragmented care and may be mitigated by coordinated and comprehensive care. Limited literature exists about unmet needs of parents of children with LTDs and the barriers they encounter to accessing mental health resources within pediatric palliative care (PPC) …
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Career psychology factors as antecedents of career success of women academics in South Africa
The difference in career success among male and female academics is welldocumented and a number of qualitative studies have offered explanations about the challenges faced by women academics. This study provided an empirical investigation into the relationship between selected career psychology …
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An investigative study of the caregivers experiences in caring for the elderly
While care-giving is a common topic, very few studies have been done on the experiences of caregivers in caring for the elderly in South Africa. This study focused on the subjective experiences of the caregivers caring for the elderly in one of the old age homes called La Gratitude in KwaZulu-Natal …
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Examining the Legacy of Transgenerational Trauma and its Effects on Contemporary African American Adults in Parenting and Caregiver Roles to African American Adolescents
… This research explored the roles of parent and caregiver within this cultural group in an effort to determine how past traumas have influenced the lived experiences and world view of African Americans in these roles.</p> <p>While research on certain historically marginalized cultural and …
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The experiences of parents of children with disabilities
… school for their children with disability, care giving challenges, lack of suitable housing and transport allocated for children with disability. It also transpired that there are support structures within their communities despite there being no programs to support them.
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In It Together: The experiences of partners/spouses living with a loved one with bipolar disorder
… Counselling Psychologists could play a role with care-giving tasks and their own psychological needs. Five individuals, who were currently living with, or had been living with, a partner with bipolar disorder, volunteered and participated in a semi-structured interview. These interviews were …
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Supporting fathering through infant massage
… to be a viable option for teaching fathers care-giving sensitivity. To build on the notion of teaching fathers attachment system behaviour in early infancy, a quasi-experimental, mixed methods study was employed. Twenty-four infant-father dyads were recruited for the study. The fathers were …
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