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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Caregivers -- psychology"”.
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Husband's and Daughter's Role Strain During Breast Cancer Hospice Patient Caregiving and Bereavement Adjustment
… bereavement adjustment for husband and daughter caregivers of breast cancer hospice patients. For husbands, greater psychological strain and health strain were predictive of greater difficulty with bereavement adjustment, supporting the Complicated Grief Model of bereavement adjustment. For …
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Psychological Aspects of Ventilator Dependent Children
… was a positive correlation with the primary caregivers amount of stress and levels of both depression and posttraumatic stress in the child. It was also found that a significant percentage of the subjects were ventilator dependent with sleep apnea and were extremely obese. This study …
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Predictors of Placement Satisfaction for Foster Youth
<p>Youth in the foster care system are often removed from their biological families because of challenges to their safety and wellbeing and are often at risk for further placement disruption and poor socio-emotional development. Placement stability is a crucial component to establishing permanency …
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Illness As A Relational Process: Qualitative Analysis of Couple Therapy with Liver Patients
<p>The medical model traditionally emphasizes individual biological disease and is often unable to attend to the many ways illness impacts families and couples. Due to the focus on the biological process of disease, couples often struggle with the relational experience of illness. Quantitative …
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A Needs Assessment of Caregiving Parents to Children with Substantial Disabilities
<p>Parents who have a child with substantial disabilities have two distinct roles, parent and caregiver. This study sought to understand how parental and caregiver roles require distinct skills, attitudes, and behaviors that are affected by the concept of parental ambiguous loss. Using boundary …
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The Grief Experience of Caregivers When the Child Has a Life Threatening Illness
<p>Using a mixed method approach, this study explored the impact of attachment styles on the grief experience of parents and guardians of a child who has a hematological or oncological illness. The grief experience was evaluated through the lenses of Chronic Sorrow, Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory …
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Maternal Caregivers' Organization of and Reasoning Behind Coping Suggestions to Deal with Community Violence Exposure
… and the roles that proximal others such as caregivers play in that process. The current study had several aims including understanding (a) how caregivers organize and conceptualize the suggestions they give to their children to cope with community violence, (b) the themes that emerge in …