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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Parental death."”.
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Parental death and schooling outcomes in South Africa
… care-givers, and other loved ones to illness and death. One of the lasting effects of the HIV/AIDS crisis will be the impact it is having on the education of the generation of children now of school going age. This thesis examines the extent to which South African children who have experienced …
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Parental death and its impact on the marital satisfaction of the surviving adult child
Previous literature has identified parental death as having a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the surviving adult child. In addition, research suggests that the marital satisfaction of a male or female adult child is negatively impacted after either a father or mother has died. …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of adults’ accounts of the lived experience of parental death in adolescence
… lived experiences of adults who experienced parental death during adolescence in order to gain insight into how their experience has impacted them from adolescence to adulthood. The findings from this research endeavour to contribute to a theoretical understanding of this experience and …
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The long arm of childhood bereavement : parental death and pathways to adult health and educational inequalities.
The death of a parent is generally considered to be among the most devastating kinds of losses that children can experience. While research has examined the associations between childhood parental death and health and educational attainment, the pathways and mechanisms that explain these …
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An explorative study of the experience of adolescents who have lost their parents through HIV/AIDS
AIDS related deaths of parents have resulted in children being orphaned, in large numbers. Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable period in a child’s developmental life.It is a period charactarised by uncertainties, role confusion and identity crises. This stage becomes even more complex when …
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A psychosocial exploration of bereaved children’s experiences of exclusion from school: what understanding can be gained from a psychoanalytic perspective?
… there is little research into the impact of parental death on children and young people. This psychosocial study explores the experiences of children and young people who have been bereaved of a parent and who are subsequently excluded from school. Three participants of school age were …
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Grieving Between the Lines: Expanding Family Communication Patterns Theory Through Parental Bereavement
… Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to parental death is scarce. This thesis argues that FCPT is a viable theory to measure the uniqueness of parental death grief compared to other types of relational loss. The hypotheses and research questions of this study explore the impact of family …
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Essays in Health, Education and Development
… three essays that examine the extent to which parental loss and social programs affect the health, education and time allocation of children in developing countries. </p><p> The first chapter asks the question of whether early life public health interventions have lasting or long term impact on …
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Children of divorce versus children of intact families and their adjustment to college
… being from divorced families, two reported parental death, and 75 reported their parents still being married. Results indicated that the age a child experiences their parents divorce can have a significant impact on their later attachment to college and social adjustment to college. More …
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The role of social support, parent-child relationship quality and self-concept on adolescent depression, achievement, and social satisfaction among children who experience the death of a family member
<p>Experiencing the death of a family member at a young age is a confusing time for many children. Some clinicians have reported that parental death is the most stressful life event for children, and some studies have traced adults' mental health difficulties to unresolved childhood grief (Balk, …
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The Implications of Residential Care on the Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Lusaka Urban
… 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 investigate the …
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The Implications of Residential Care on the Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents in Lusaka Urban
… 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 investigate the …