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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"family dysfunction"”.
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Disengagement: The Influence of Family Dysfunction and Childhood Trauma
… not appear to differentiate between the groups, family dysfunction was much more prevalent in the ""low"" control group. In sum, Disengagement, as initially construed, seems to be characteristic of persons with ""high"" levels of control over this process, whereas dissociation predominates 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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Factors Influencing Academic Success in First Generation College Students
… focused on the influences of one risk factor (family dysfunction) and one resiliency factor (perceived academic control) on self-reported grade point average (GPA) in first generation and continuing generation college students. Ethnicity (Hispanic versus Non-Hispanic) was included in the …
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Potential Precursors of Comorbidity: Examining how Emotions, Parental Psychopathology, and Family Functioning Relate to Depressive Symptoms in Young Anxious Children
… ratings, parental psychopathology symptoms, and family functioning) of comorbid depressive symptoms in young anxious children. Method: Sixty-eight children, aged 6 to 10 years (M = 9.06, SD = 1.10), and caregivers completed measures assessing child depressive symptoms. Furthermore, children …
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Parenting Behavior and Family Function in Families with Anxious Youth: Influence of Youth and Mother Characteristics
… study examined the potential moderating role of family functioning in the relationship between parenting behavior (i.e., youth-perceived maternal involvement; autonomy granting) and youth anxiety symptoms. The study also examined the moderating role of youth characteristics (age; comorbid …
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Professional and Personal Lives of Psychologists: Spillover, Family Functioning, and Life Satsiafction
… was used to examine work life, spillover, family, and personal lives. A measure of spillover, Stressors and Enhancers for Psychologists, was also evaluated. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated two negatively correlated dimensions of work spillover: positive spillover termed family …
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Running To and Away From Reflection Animated Auto-Ethnographic Video
… Racism, Police Violence, Intergenerational family dysfunction, and treatment of people with Mental Health issues. I look at what I was forced to reflect on belonging, identity, safety, and trauma memories.
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Psychotherapy with an adolescent girl in a mixed-race stepfamily in post-apartheid South Africa
… issues brought to therapy by a biracial stepfamily in post-apartheid South Africa. Since this is likely to become a more common family type, the thesis examined the literature on biracial stepfamilies , so as to reflect on the therapy and determine whether race and cultural differences were …
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Risk and Promotive Factors for Perinatal Mental Health Problems: Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences and Contemporaneous Support and Stress
… 2020) for childhood maltreatment and exposure to family dysfunction and the Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) scale (Narayan et al., 2018) for positive childhood experiences. They also reported on their sociodemographic stress including having less than a high school education (or …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… mental abuse, depression, and maladies rooted in family dysfunction. The aim of this project is to reach out to this group through music and communicate life-affirming messages of personal empowerment and agency. The pop song conventions of the compositions draw from the energy of alt-rock …
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An exploratory study of the psycho-social factors contributing to resilience amongst coloured adolescent females in the Mitchell’s Plain suburb of Cape Town.
… and responsibilities between girls and boys, family dysfunction and exposure to or involvement in substance abuse. The community of Mitchell’s Plain in the Western Cape, with its’ historical origin as a ‘dumping site’ for the coloured people of Cape Town during the implementation of the Group …
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Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbances and Psychopathology in a Mental Health Clinic Sample
… mental health agencies. Both child factors and family factors may influence both sleep and psychopathology. For example, family dysfunction and poor parenting practices have been associated with both increased sleep disturbances and psychopathology. This study aimed to examine individual child …
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Depression and Self-esteem in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
… subset of a larger group of adult children from dysfunctional families. It was hypothesized that participants from dysfunctional families would have more depression and less self-esteem than participants from functional families, regardless of parental alcoholism, and that females would have …
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Connected corrections and corrected connections: post-release supervision of long sentence male prisoners
… narratives revealed histories of neglect, abuse, family dysfunction, poverty, deprivation and community adversity. My core interviewees’ accounts of engagement with services, personal development opportunities, pre-release preparation and reentry are supplemented with interview and focus group …
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Effects of Perceived Poverty and Chaotic Living Conditions on Externalizing Problems in At-Risk Adolescents
… consistently been related to both poverty and family dysfunction within the psychological literature; however, the distinction between the effects of objective poverty and perceived poverty on adolescent behavior is relatively new. The current study aimed at understanding the relationship …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment program with a latency-aged male child
… The client also had a long standing history of family dysfunction and instability. The client participated in a multimodal treatment program consisting of individual and family counseling, as well as a school-based partial care intervention program. The client also received Adderall and Zoloft. …
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Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later
… as a homogenous group without examining type of family dysfunction. The present study investigated the relation between demographics, personality, and parenting measures and Wegscheiders (1981) ACOA adaptive familial roles of Hero (responsible overachiever), Mascot (family clown), Scapegoat …
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Bio-social aspects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Neurophysiology, maturity, motor function and how symptoms relate to family interaction
… the same age with ADHD, were video-taped during family-tasks before and after three months of treatment with amphetamine. Parents answered questionnaires concerning family functioning and parental well-being. Two-hundred and fifty-one children (age 6-9) were examined with skeletal bone-age, motor …
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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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Expressed emotion and child disturbance: An investigation of parent and family functioning.
… expressed emotion in parents and two other family risk factors known to contribute to child disturbance, psychological distress in parents and overall family dysfunction. The degree to which this set of risk factors predicted child problem behaviour ratings was also examined. The sample …
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