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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"helping relationships"”.
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Companions on the Journey: Symbolic Interaction in Helping Relationships and the Development of Spirituality For Young Adult Catholics
… sought to uncover the communicative nature of helping relationships in spiritual contexts. The author explored spiritual helping relationships as a comparative form of mentoring, placing focus on models offered by Buell (2004). Utilizing Symbolic Interaction, the study examined co-created …
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What is the role of professional helping relationships in altering the trajectories of young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage?
… doctoral thesis is about the possibility that relationships between young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage and professional helpers— employed by not-for-profit organisations— can alter the life trajectories of the young people. Specifically, the research explored five …
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When Cancer Hits Home: Providing a theoretical foundation for defining self-disclosure of personal cancer coping experience in oncology social workers’ helping relationships
The American Cancer Society estimates that by 2020 cancer survivors in the United States will increase by 31%, rising from 13.7 million in 2012 to nearly 18 million, if cancer incidence and survival rates remain stable. This does not include others indirectly impacted by a diagnosis, such as family …
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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Emotional Responding to Dyadic Discussions of a Disagreement as Predictors of Helping Related Subjective Well-Being in Older Mothers and Their Adult Daughters
… variables as predictors of the quality of helping relationships between older mothers and their adult daughters. Specifically, self-reported and observed emotional responses to the dyadic discussion of a disagreement between mothers and daughters, as well as baseline measures of respiratory …
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Out of the shadows: from forlorn to flourishing (using self as instrument of care for helping)
… and the need for reciprocation in relationships, necessary for building and maintaining meaningful relationships as a basis for people to flourish at work and in life. I situate my research and practice within the literature on using self as instrument in helping relationships, …
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A Content Analysis of the Basic Communication Skills of Beginning-Level Nursing Students
… The study was based on Watson's Model for Helping Relationships (1979) which gives direction to nurses as they respond to requests for either action, information, understanding and involvement or inappropriate requests. The Framework for Analysis, developed for this study, was derived from …
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School Social Workers' Relationships with parents: A critical incident field study
School social workers engage parents in helping relationships which benefit children's learning. The extant literature has been focused on school social worker-parent interventions, not on the relationship. This qualitative study uses the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to focus on the school …
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The development and validation of tools to measure the parent/health visitor relationship
… visitor relationship. Background: The helping relationship has been the subject of intense scrutiny in other helping professions, particularly psychotherapy where research has shown that it is crucial to positive outcomes for the client. Although health visitors assert that their …
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Recovery from Substance Abuse: The Role of Unsupportive Social Interactions
… incorporated the notion of social support and helping relationships to facilitate adjustment. However, the literature investigating the role of social support is fraught with contradictions. In addition, in substance abusing populations, researchers have just begun to investigate social support …
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Finding a "fit" between narratives : a framework for meeting the needs of people struggling with non-clinical disordered eating
… This study examined emotional processes and helping relationships among people with experiences of disordered eating. Disordered eating as a way of regulating negative emotional states (e.g. Ganley, 1989), resulting from a misinterpretation of hunger signals (e.g. Bruch, 1973), or …
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Decolonizing Benevolence: Can Faith Leaders Move the Mark Toward Equity to Create an Alternative to the White Savior Complex?
… also find themselves maintaining hierarchical helping relationships that reinforce toxic charitable models. Racial deconstruction requires the development of new paradigms, ideas, and language. Transformative leaders must commit to the continuous development of critical consciousness by …
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Pragmatic family life education: moving beyond the expert-based, content-driven model of serving families
… and fields such as: the attunement perspective, helping relationships, home economics, and positive psychology in order to inform strategies and approaches for outreach and engagement; and finally reviews principles central to the philosophy of education.The study employs a convergent, …
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THE EFFECT OF PEER RELATIONSHIPS ON THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCES OF UNDOCUMENTED LATINO COLLEGE STUDENTS
… student’s success and retention then is relationships with like-minded college peers (Dennis, Phinney, & Chauteco, 2005; Di, 2012). This dissertation examined the type of relationships and the role of peer relationships in the college experiences of undocumented Latino college students. …