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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Family interactions"”.
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GATHER: A MOBILE TOOL CONCEPT TO ASSIST FAMILIES IN EXPLORING NEW VEGETABLES AND INCREASING PRODUCE CONSUMPTION
… food consumption are heavily influenced by our family interactions around food. This thesis explores the nutritional challenges facing a sample of middle-income American families and synthesizes that research into a design proposal for an intervention that attempts to increase produce intake for …
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Multifamily Family Therapy Group for ADHD Children and their Families: A Delphi Study
… peer relationships, increased conflict within family interactions as well as diminished academic achievement and increased classroom disruptions. In order to target these concerns, a 12 week pilot Multifamily Therapy Group curriculum was developed for implementation in a social service agency …
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Family cohesion and adaptability as correlates of overcontrolled or undercontrolled behaviors of children
… done on symptom types as they relate to these family interaction patterns. This study was designed to offer evidence for the Circumplex Model of family interactions which contends that unhealthy family functioning reflects interaction patterns at either extreme of these two dimensions. Also, …
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Family preservation, a study of change in family functioning
This study on family preservation services examined the relationship between certain family characteristics and their impact on child placement rates. Information on families that received family preservation services was collected using the Family Assessment Form (1993). The variables that were …
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Destination marriage? The diagnostic role of rituals in dating relationships
… three normative relationship features, that of family interactions, relationship awareness, and conflict management. Experiencing these relationship features during a ritual time highlighted the uncertainty inherent in determining marriage eligibility with a current partner and enhanced the …
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Teens Talkin' Health: A Qualitative Study of Family, Peer and Intrapersonal Factors Related to Physical Activity and Healthy Eating In Underserved African-American Adolescents
… framework to explore the influences of family, peer, and intrapersonal factors related to physical activity (PA) and healthy eating in African American adolescents. Specific aims included identifying similarities and differences in youth perceptions of ecological factors by sex as well …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Suicide and Family Connectedness
… the influences of a suicide on peers and family members, yet the degree to which familial survivors of suicide communicate within their family constellations and, additionally, what family transformations ensue have not been studied. This phenomenological multi-case study proposes to …
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Symbolic Convergence of Family, Organizational, and Health Communication : Family-Staff Interaction and Quality of Care in Group Homes
… families as well as staff’s attitudes towards family interaction. Four focus groups were conducted with a total of 19 participants (n=19). Two group home agencies participated with two focus groups each, one management group and one direct care staff group. The qualitative method of grounded …
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Challenged by families with challenges: An investigation of family supports in early intervention
… findings of a grounded theory study examining family supports in early intervention. The purpose of the study is to understand how practitioners perceive families with challenges and how their perceptions influence the practices and supports they provide to families with challenges. We observed …
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Empirical validation of treatment targets for the management of diabetes in children
… measures on variables of anxiety, coping, family adjustment, and health locus of control; and underwent structured interviewing. Parents completed parallel self-report measures, as well as an assessment of child behavior. In addition, a subsample of parent-child dyads participated in a …
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Syrian Refugee Fathers Perceptions of Identity and Family Dynamics in the U.S. after Displacement
… and (c) advance knowledge for marriage and family therapists, who are working with refugee families. Eight Syrian refugee fathers who were displaced in the last two years and living in Indiana, US shared their experiences through in-depth interviews. After transcribing and translating the …
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Pro-social and anti-social effects of television viewing on adolescents: Speculations based on family situation comedy content
… theorize that verbal insults within television family interactions may create images of dysfunctional families that serve as a paradigm for young viewers. This study conducted a content analysis of television programming and speculated about the possible development of antisocial behavior in …
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Interactions of shiga-like toxin-2 (Stx-2) from Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the Bcl-2 family of proteins during host cell programmed cell death
… of apoptosis is mediated by the Bcl-2 protein family (2, 46, 226). The purpose of this research was to define the molecular mechanisms of Stx-2 and Bcl-2 protein family interactions. These studies examined the binding of Stx-2 to select Bcl-2 family proteins, and outlined the effects that Stx-2 …
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Children’s ego functioning and their stage of moral reasoning
It has been claimed that both peer and family interactions are important in facilitating moral development. As well, there has been evidence suggesting that children's ego functioning is an important consideration in understanding moral functioning. This study investigated the relationship among …
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Structural Analysis of Family Dysfunction (Interaction, Interpersonal Assessment, Scapegoating, Direct Observation, Markov Analysis)
A central tenet of family systems theory has been that family members behave in a manner that maintains dysfunctional perceptions of other family members and of themselves. One of the key ways in which this tenet has been described is through the construct of scapegoating. This construct was …
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Homeward Bound: The Influence of Emigration and Return on Aezkoa Valley and its Surrounding Rural Communities in Northern Navarre at the turn of the 19th Century
… of the homeland, women, children, and family. By addressing the changes that both emigrants and returnees prompted in their hometowns in Aezkoa Valley, the flow of ideas and people in-between two worlds will be analyzed from the point of view of cultural encounters that led to hybrid …
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Examining the importance of the family on pre-school attachment and children's social development
… of the mother-child dyad, isolated from the family. This focus has served to ostracise the caregiving context, once viewed as central to understanding child attachment quality (Bowlby, 1969/1982). While a call for more contextual attachment research has been in place for some time, there …
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An Exploratory Study of the Experiences of Recent Graduates Who Participated in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
… Academic Inadequateness, Influence of Family, Church, and Community Systems, Family Interactions, Self-Made Support Systems, Recognition of a Lack of Preparation, Introduction to the McNair Program, McNair Program Experiences, and McNair at the Graduate Level. These themes provide …
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Parent and child influences on the development of a Black-White biracial identity
… development revealed four major themes: that family interactions and relationships contribute to the creation of identity for biracial individuals, that mothers intentionally worked to create an open family environment for their biracial children to grow up in, that parents and children affect …
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