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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Dysfunctional family"”.
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Adolescent Leisure Activities as a Moderator of the Negative Effects of Family Process on Adolescent Emotional Health
… time-out) would moderate the negative effects of dysfunctional family process on an adolescent's emotional health. A model was tested that hypothesized that leisure experienced as achievement or social by adolescents would buffer the negative effects of a dysfunctional family. A sample of 243 …
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A description of the process of working intersubjectively with an insecurely attached young adolescent : a case study
… expression and withdrawal in the context of a dysfunctional family system. The case study research addresses the following aims. It uses information collected from initial interviews with the family and subsequent therapy and feedback sessions to explore the patient’s attachment patterns. It …
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Stone Cold Secrets
<p><em>Stone Cold Secrets</em> is a novel about a family that struggles to forgive each other for the secrets they have kept from one another. The story is based on a woman who gave away or sold her children after birth. The siblings meet each other as young adults and they try very hard to turn …
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Precipitating and prophylactic factors contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology in maltreated children
… locus of control, affect dysregulation, and a dysfunctional family; (2) key family and victim characteristics would help to ameliorate effects of traumatic abuse; (3) the combination of precipitating and prophylactic factors would determine the effectiveness of managing traumatic maltreatment. …
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The Drama of Alienation: An Interpersonal Examination of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story and Sam Shepard's Buried Child
… Buried Child, by Sam Shepard (1971), shows a dysfunctional family whose members recognize their alienation from themselves, each other, and society.</p>
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Parental Anxiety and Child Psychopathology: The Role of the Family Environment
… adults are parents. Parental anxiety, as well as dysfunctional family environment, contributes to both internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Specifically, family control, conflict, and cohesion have been shown to predict child internalizing and externalizing symptoms to varying …
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The formulation of an author's 'other' in late postmodern fiction
… activity), must decide to whom he will leave the family business, now that he has survived a heart attack. His boisterous but stem Texan wife, Sofia, busies herself by preparing for the upcoming family reunion in Bavaria. Together, the Schneider siblings finally embrace the power and opportunity …
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The Contribution of Enactments to Structural Family Therapy: A Process Study
… the use of <em>enactments</em>, a structural family therapy intervention, and in-session change as observed over the course of the session. Change was measured by the amount of change that occurred in the <em>core problem dynamic</em>, that is, the most prominent pattern of dysfunctional …
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Exploring the causal link between childhood sexual abuse, contextual factors, and borderline personality disorder: a path analytical model
… of abuse or trauma and within the context of dysfunctional family characteristics. Subjects were 41 adult females with a history of childhood sexual abuse who were recruited from outpatient mental health clinics and one psychiatric hospital. The borderline portion of the Personality Disorder …
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Footwork: A Novel
… Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper concentrates on a dysfunctional family, infidelity and is primarily dialogue. All three novels explore realistic portrayals of truth and infidelity. Footwork goes further by examining the intricacies of how people deal with deception and also forces the reader to …
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THE USE OF HYPNOSIS AS AN AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC MODALITY IN THE EXPLORATION AND MANAGEMENT OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY - SELECTED CASE STUDIES
… memories of guilt and anger were associated with dysfunctional family relationships and childhood eating experiences. For most of these participants the strength of the association between these past times and feelings, and their current long-term overweight problem came as a total surprise. Even …
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Experiences, Challenges, and Resiliency Among Survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
… this research revealed major themes in terms of dysfunctional family dynamics in childhood, a lack of recognition of the signs of trafficking, a lack of appropriate recovery services, and provided insight into helpful strategies that could be implemented to improve the process as these …
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The views and experiences of service providers in facilitating a positive behaviour programme for at-risk youth in Cape Town schools: the case of the tenterden place of safety
… by considering the influences of school, family, and community, rather than isolating the problem. The aim of this study was to explore the views and experiences of service providers in facilitating a PBS model, a restorative approach, for learners with challenging behaviour who are at …
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Stealing Home
This is a fictional account of a family's mental illness which reflects the larger problem of society as a whole. Employing a modernist/postmodernist approach, the author hopes to illuminate the problem, break down stereotypes and call attention to the stigmas and taboos surrounding mental illness. …
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Developmental burden of childhood adversity: Insight from longitudinal perspectives
… adversity subgroups, namely, low adversity, dysfunctional family, parental deprivation, family poverty and global adversity. To establish a pathway to cognitive functioning among the adversity subgroups, a further analysis using latent class regression revealed that family poverty subgroup …