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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Family contact"”.
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Open adoption in Victoria, Australia: adoptive parents' reports of children's experience of birth family contact in relation to child wellbeing
Open adoption, in which adopted children may have contact with their birth family, is a relatively new phenomenon in the adoption field. It was introduced in Victoria, Australia, in 1984, and no Australian research as to its nature and effectiveness has been published to date. The experience of 60 …
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Life satisfaction: influences of family and friends upon the elderly
The relative importance of contact with family and friends for an.elderly person's life satisfaction was investigated. A random sample of 167 noninstitutionalized elderly residents (65 and over) of Philadelphia completed an extensive in-depth interview packet. Each subject was then rated by a …
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Respite, relationships and re-signification : a study of the effects of residential schooling on children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, with particular reference to the pupils' perspective
… * respite from negative influences in the family, home based peer school and peer group * opportunities for positive pupil achievement * encouragement to form rewarding interpersonal relationships with adults and fellow pupils at the schools Negative effects of stigma and loss of family …
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Adoption reunions: an exploratory study of the ‘lived experience’ of Irish adult intercountry adoptees who have reunions with their birth families in the digital age
… online and in-person, and how experiences of contact and reunion with their birth family contribute to their identity construction. The rationale for studying reunion in intercountry adoption to Ireland is that it is a relatively recent phenomenon, with the first cohort of intercountry …
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Parkinson's disease: An investigation of relevant marital and family factors
… severity of illness, quality and quantity of family contact, and demographic data. Forty-three spousal caregivers and 42 PD patients recruited from the Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society (DAPS) participated in this investigation. Caregiver burden was evaluated by Zarit's Burden Interview; the …
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Bubbles, Brick Walls and Connectivity. Families affected by parental imprisonment and their experiences of community-based support.
… a parent. Imprisonment has been described as a family affair, as families suffer the brunt of the punishment supposedly directed at the offender. Despite an awareness of this impact there is a distinct lack of community-based support services for families affected by parental imprisonment, and …
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The Implications of Residential Care on the Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Lusaka Urban
… provided by a paid caregiver. Extreme poverty, family disintegration, parental death, HIV and AIDS, armed conflict, abuse, neglect and natural disasters are some of the main reasons why children end up in RC. A cross sectional study using quantitative and qualitative methods was undertaken to …
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The Implications of Residential Care on the Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Lusaka Urban
… provided by a paid caregiver. Extreme poverty, family disintegration, parental death, HIV and AIDS, armed conflict, abuse, neglect and natural disasters are some of the main reasons why children end up in RC. A cross sectional study using quantitative and qualitative methods was undertaken to …
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Women studying and working in engineering : case studies from UCT and civil engineering in the Western Cape
… (including having an engineer in the family), "Contact with Engineering" (through open days organised by educational institutions or engineering organisations) and performance and ability in "School Subjects", were fowid to be particularly significant. Isolated incidents of sexist …
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Befragung zur Haltung und zum Verhalten der Rasse Dobermann in Deutschland
… aggressive group, whereby they had clearly less contact with strange dogs of this kind in their youth ( 4 – 12 months of age) and even today when compared to the basic number. Also the contact to strange persons in their youth as well as today was more reduced in comparison to the remaining …