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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Connection and Disconnection"”.
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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection
Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection, a creative thesis, explores patterns of change in stories from the perspective of connection and disconnection. The preface examines the effects of temporal disconnection, the relationship of conflict and connection to narrative …
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Adaptive File System Consistency for Mobile Computing Environments
This dissertation presents the Mobile File and Adaptation System (MFAS), the first file system to be designed specially for partially connected operation. While MFAS supports the extreme modes of full connection and disconnection gracefully, its major innovation is in using the scarce, but …
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The therapist in crisis: experiencing the therapeutic process after personal loss
… ‘therapist in crisis’ in an attempt to understand what it is like to be a psychological therapist following personal loss. Data gathered from nine semi-structured interviews with therapists who had experienced personal loss were analysed using a relational-centred approach to a heuristic …
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A Multi-Method Examination of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model Among Adolescents: Testing the Unique Role of Online (Dis)Connection
… study was to provide a comprehensive and rigorous test of the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model (PSDM) among adolescents, with a focus on the role of online connection. According to the PSDM, perfectionism is thought to be linked with a lack of social connection which, in turn, …
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"When You're Born You Can't Even Talk, So Everybody Starts Somewhere": the Lived Experiences of Sports Leadership Training
The ‘power of sport’ and its efficacy in personal and social development programmes has often been taken for granted. Despite the growing number of studies which have critically questioned how sport is used in developmental contexts, there has been seemingly little focus placed upon participants’ …
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ADOLESCENTS’ ELECTRONIC DEVICE USE MANAGEMENT: EXPLORING PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS, PERSPECTIVES, AND EXPERIENCES
… explored parents’ or guardians’ perceptions and perspectives of, and experiences navigating, personal electronic device use and management for adolescents from 14 to 19 years of age in their family home. Family systems theory acknowledges families are complex social systems where the actions …
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Relationships, psychological distress and stigma: a counselling psychology perspective
… interpersonal relationships, productivity and emotional well-being. Existing research in the area of PMS is largely quantitative and has been conducted using a positivist framework; the few qualitative studies undertaken have examined women’s individual experiences of PMS. Further, studies …
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Feeling Trapped: Exploring the Lived Psychosocial Experiences of First-Generation College Students
… framework using the acculturative stress model and concepts from collective trauma to describe how colleges can function as a microcosm of the real world and place first-generation college students at increased vulnerability on top of the normative developmental challenges of young adulthood. I …
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Exploring the Relational Impact of Breast Cancer on Younger Women Partnered with Women
… States. Due to improvements in cancer detection and treatment, survivorship is higher than in the past. More than ten percent of new diagnoses are in women 45 years or younger. There are approximately one million sexual minority individuals living with cancer in the US, yet this population is …
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Apparatgeist and Mobile Communication: Considering Interpersonal Communication Practices
… is embedded into our daily life increasing our connection to social networks. The development of mobile communication occurred during the second half of the twentieth century and has become domesticated into everyday life. One consequence of the widespread adoption of mobile communication device …