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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"hopefulness"”.
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Hope after loss: Using art therapy to increase hopefulness
… from the death of a partner and thereby increase hopefulness. The widowed participants were under the age of 60. The hypothesis was that integrating art therapy, with a narrative approach would increase hopefulness, as measured by The Adult Hope Scale. The research was based on one session in …
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Effects of a group counseling career intervention on the hopefulness and future orientation of at-risk middle school students
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a small group counseling career intervention on levels of total hope, willpower (agency), waypower (pathways), and future orientation of at-risk middle school students attending an urban middle school in Southeast Michigan. This true …
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The Relationship Between Teachers and Hope: An Integral Study of How Teachers Experience, Enact and Understand Hope in their Teaching Contexts
… public school system. The phenomenon of teacher hopefulness was investigated four distinct ways according to the conceptual framework. First, by using a small-scale questionnaire to collect data about observable behaviour from 13 participants, it was found that teachers enact goal-related …
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Comfort: Voices of adolescents with metastatic cancer
… of their comfort experience was their hopefulness for the future. Comfort fueled their ability to accept the diagnosis, cope with the distressing symptoms, and hope for a cure. Themes that emerged were consistent with the holistic definition of comfort according to Kolcaba's comfort …
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Positive experiences in older people with early stage dementia
… and explores factors that facilitate or hinder hopefulness in this population. Ten participants were each interviewed and interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to identify themes within their accounts. The study considers how hopefulness in dementia compares with existing definitions …
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Health-Related Quality of Life and Future Care Planning Among Older Adults: Exploring the Role of Hope as a Moderator
… burden, and functional impairment indicated that hopefulness, particularly agentic thinking or goal identification, moderated the relationship between those three HRQoL dimensions and PFCN behaviors.</p><p>Among those with greater role limitations, lower hope was associated with more awareness of …
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Utilizing Reflective Narratives To Promote Academic Mindsets: Building Relationships, Developing Responsibility, Fostering Resilience, And Providing Relevance For Adolescents
… science about resilience, connectedness, and hopefulness with the research of social neuroscience, this study explores the role of story and reflective narratives in optimizing self-efficacy and enhancing overall well-being through the development of relationships, responsibility, resilience, …
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Narrative Art Therapy with Career Counseling to Promote Insight and Decsion-making After Experienceing Job Loss
… anxiety and depression, and increased levels of hopefulness and personal growth initiative. This research provides a good foundation for further research in the area of art therapy and career counseling.</p>
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Understanding the Social Identity of Homeless Youth: A Visual Analysis of Experience
… facets including self worth, relationships, and hopefulness for the future. Furthermore, avoiding, censoring self, intragroup networking, using liaisons, and attacking were all found to be key communication strategies for homeless youth that were largely influenced by their identities, thereby, …
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The Holy Spirit's Hope for the Traumatized
… of individuals producing a response of genuine hopefulness in Christian trauma survivors. The introduction sets up the issue of trauma and the need for more theological resources that address the topic. Chapter 2 presents relevant components of human personhood: the heart and mind, the body, and …
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Morality according to Irving : an examination of the value system operating in the fiction of John Irving.
… react to pain and loss with life-affirming hopefulness, and a Dantean sense of fitting or ironic judgment when characters fail to abide by important moral standards.
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Clients' Perceptions of the Therapeutic Process: A Common Factors Approach
… further suggest that the clients' level of hopefulness and expectancy for positive change is the most significant predictor for both client change and therapy helpfulness. Qualitative results indicate that the therapeutic relationship is considered by clients to be the most helpful aspect of …
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Silent Messengers: Visualizing the Growth of Christianity in China by Chinese Christian Posters, 1927-1942
Christians in China experienced both the hopefulness and the hopelessness in 1930s China. The re-establishment of the Nanjing government in 1927 partially alleviated the fierce anti-Christian sentiments prevalent in China. Having recognized the daunting circumstance which Christianity in China was …
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A social work exploration of the ways poverty or material deprivation contributes to loss of hope
… deprivation has had an on-going influence on the hopefulness of the participants even after they have risen out of poverty or material deprivation. Implications to social work practice, theory and policy were discussed at the end. Key Words: hope, hermeneutic, poverty, material deprivation, suicide
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Virtual Walk-In Single Session Therapy: A Multiple-Case Study of Parents' Self-Efficacy
… SST reduced parents' distress while increasing hopefulness in the parenting role. In addition, parents valued the accessibility and convenience of the virtual option. Overall, the findings of this study provide evidence that virtual SST can be beneficial for parents and can foster parental …
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Community Violence, Protective Factors, and Resilience: Gender Differences in African American Youth
… psychological outlook, namely their sense of hopefulness and future orientation. The specific protective factors examined were internal attributes, racial socialization/identity, and social support. This study highlights the moderating effect that these protective factors have in forming …
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Controlled Substance Agreements:The Patient's Perspective Explored Through the Theory of Human Caring
… to the study patients but lowest in expressing hopefulness.</p> <p>Conclusion: The Theory of Human Caring by Watson provided a useful theoretical framework to actualize and <strong>quantify</strong> patient-centered care. Research patients receiving long-term opioids for chronic, non-malignant …
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Factors that Influence Career Choice in South African Township High School Students
… and listening strategies and their general hopefulness.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong>Non-experimental, descriptive study using both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis strategies.</p> <p><strong> Findings:</strong>A significant difference was found based on gender in …
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A qualitative analysis of parental coping with an early diagnosis of hearing loss in Ireland
… ranging from acute distress to resilient hopefulness
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Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Mediators of Therapeutic Expectations for Treating PTSD Related to Military Sexual Trauma
… before, during, and after treatment, bolstering hopefulness and strengthening the therapeutic alliance prior to commencing treatment, and directly addressing interpersonal factors for Veterans with greater PTSD severity and/or lower therapeutic expectations prior to treatment.
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