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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"family system"”.
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Positive Emotion, Attentional Focus and Physical Health-Related Behaviors in the Family System
… these associations, including within the family system.
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A Parent at War and the "Invisible Wounds" They Carry Home: PTSD in Military Veterans and a Review of Psychosocial Family System Challenges
… bring forth tension, stress, and friction to the family system. This thesis explores the literature of family system challenges faced by male and female U.S. veterans, and child outcomes.</p> <p>Through a review of empirical literature, a case will be made that not only does the veteran affect …
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The Premature Loss of the Black Male and Its Implications on the Black Family System and Community: A Proposed 12-Step Grief Support Group Model
… males through homicide, along with suicide and systemic violence, and incarceration, create lifelong emotional and psychological trauma for those who remain behind in Black family settings and society. U.S. social injustices against Black communities and multigenerational losses and racial harm …
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Mothers' adaptation to childhood cancer: an analysis of family process stressors, family system resources, parental coping patterns, and parental adaptation among mothers of children with cancer
Family process stressors, family system resources, parental coping patterns, and parental adaptation were assessed for 58 mothers who had a child with cancer who was being seen at selected pediatric hematology-oncology centers in two Southeastern states. The respondents completed a self-report …
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ADOLESCENTS’ ELECTRONIC DEVICE USE MANAGEMENT: EXPLORING PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS, PERSPECTIVES, AND EXPERIENCES
… of personalized electronic devices in the family system (Hiniker et al., 2016; Knitter & Zemp, 2020; Modecki et al., 2022; Nielsen et al., 2019). The study explored parents’ or guardians’ perceptions and perspectives of, and experiences navigating, personal electronic device use and …
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Co-Constructing COVID-19: Learning Relational Practices From Families Facing a Global Pandemic
… in mental and/or relational health, and the family system has the potential to promote recovery and resilience by buffering such risks. Despite the surge of research on the pandemic since 2020, much of the literature about disaster events (the pandemic included) tend to focus on the …
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Impact of male emigration on the status of left-behind women: A case study of a Pakistani village
… migrant's contact with his home; and the type of family system in which the wife resides. The study's hypotheses were: (a) migrant status and duration of husband's stay abroad have a positive relationship with women's decision-making power; (b) the level of contact between husbands and left-behind …
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An ethnographic analysis of the family dynamics of the obese adolescent
… as it interacted with and was perceived by the family system. The study was an ethnographic analysis whose goals were to understand the meaning obesity had for the family and how the dynamics of the family interacted with the obesity. The respondents in the study were five female adolescents and …
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Family-of-origin and current family styles of adults molested as children
The developmental impact of the family system on a child varies according to the functional status of the family. Harter, Pamela, and Neimeyer (1988) found that sexually abused children reported perceptions of significantly less cohesion and adaptability than nonabused children within their …
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Health of adult caregivers of the older person and intergenerational family relationships
… between key concepts in the two generational family system, perceived stress, and the current health of the caregiver of the older person were tested. Additionally, path analysis techniques were used to evaluate the adequacy of the proposed theoretical framework. The theoretical propositions …
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Different Perspectives on the Boomerang: How Adult Daughters and their Parents Experience the Move Back Home
… this phenomenon's effect on various parts of the family system. This study set out to address this gap by comparing separate interviews from young adult boomerangs and their parents. Findings suggest a disparity between parental and young adult opinions on a variety of topics, most notably: …
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Adolescents’ experiences of parental reactions to the disclosure of child sexual abuse
… child, the parents of the child, and the support system of the child by intense feelings of guilt, anger, blame and mistrust associated with the abuse. Role confusion and transgression of interpersonal boundaries before, during, and after the sexual abuse might occur in families affected by child …
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A scoping review of primary caregivers'perceptions of their involvement in augmentative and alternative communication of their children
… only the influence on them as parents but on the family system and the various ecological systems of the family and the child. The knowledge and skills required by the parents are prominent needs and the lack thereof as well as not being consulted on their opinion often leaves them feeling …
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A description of the process of working intersubjectively with an insecurely attached young adolescent : a case study
… 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 explores the …
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Alcoholism and family relations
… build upon a conceptual model of the alcoholic family system. The variables investigated were: differentiation of self, as represented by quantity and quality of involvement with family of origin; and nuclear family structure, as represented by hierarchy and primary coalition types. These …
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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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Self-reported benefits of participating in the Lee Style Taijiquan.
… of the origins of the Daoist walk in the Lee Family Style Taijiquan. This walk is situated within the Chinese perspective of a subtle body, and a survey of the internal landscape of the body, its deities, and its relationship with the cosmos is identified. The phenomenon of qi is investigated …
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Adolescent development and parental alcohol use patterns
… has been directed toward alcoholism as a family system problem. Recent publications have identified characteristics of the "alcoholic family" system and a model of psychosocial development specific to children of alcoholics. Both theoretical frameworks proposed that family and individual …
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