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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"maternal experience"”.
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The maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties
… and a human voice to existing research on the maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties. It was hoped that this increased understanding could be used by counselling psychologists, not only in their own clinical practice but also when supporting physical health …
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The effects of parental experience on cognition, anxiety-like behaviour, and hippocampal plasticity in a biparental species.
… In rodents, it is still unclear how parental experience influences behaviours outside of caregiving, such as in spatial cognition and anxiety. Furthermore, studies on the effects of maternal experience have focused on monoparental species, while few studies have investigated the changes …
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A portfolio of work on mother-child dyad and autism : a counselling psychology perspective
… is concerned with the change in the way mothers experienced and identified themselves after their child was diagnosed with autism. The third theme is withdrawing from others, and focuses on mothers' descriptions of their experiences of others' reaction towards both them and towards their child’s …
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Experience dependent coding of intonations by offsets in mouse auditory cortex
… of pup ultrasonic vocalizations during maternal experience to study auditory cortical plasticity in a natural social context. Specifically, we aim to determine how mice learn to use acoustic features to discriminate vocalization categories. One of the acoustic features that can be used …
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Connecting self, body and world: a counselling psychology perspective
… a positivist framework. This study explored the maternal experience of being told one’s child is overweight or obese as part of the NCMP. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the eight participants, and the data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three …
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The long-term effects of reproductive experience on the neurobiology of anxiety and its treatment: a cross species approach in female rats and women
… investigated the impact of two female-specific experiences – the reproductive (estrous/menstrual) cycle and reproductive experience (pregnancy/maternal interactions) – on anxiety and its treatment. Following a literature review in Chapter 1, Chapters 2-3 examined whether reproductive experience …
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Mothers transfer information via eggs: effect of mothers' experience with predators on offspring
… their offspring via hormonally-mediated maternal effects. In this study, offspring of mothers that had been exposed to a predator during oogenesis (experimental) were compared to offspring of mothers that had not been exposed to a predator (control). I measured the consequences of …
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The Roles of Social Status, Maternal Stress, and Parental Investment in Modulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Interrenal Axis Function in Teleost Fish
… thesis examined the premise that social status, maternal experience, and reproductive status affect HPI axis function in fish. Social stress in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) chronically elevates circulating cortisol levels. In this thesis, social subordinance as well as exogenous …
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The lived experience of non-offending mothers in cases of intrafamilial child sexual abuse: Towards a preliminary model of loss, trauma and recovery
… that demonstrates that nonoffending mothers’ experience significant loss and trauma following the discovery of their children’s sexual victimisation by a family member, particularly where the perpetrators are their partners. An understanding of the non-offending mother’s experience is crucial …
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Producing the new mother : surveillance, normalisation and maternal learning
This thesis is an investigation of maternal learning through the experiences of fifteen women who were learning to mother their first born infants within a white anglo-centric culture. These women provided stories about their experiences of pregnancy, birth and the early days of mothering during a …
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Mothering a neonate/young infant with feeding and swallowing difficulties: barriers, facilitators, and support
… FSD, highlighting a gap in understanding the maternal experience. Research aim and objective: This research aimed to explore ‘mothering' a neonate/young infant with FSD in a South African healthcare context. To achieve the aim, mothers' experiences of barriers, facilitators and support needs …
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The Angel of Art Sees the Future Even as She Flies Backwards: Enabling Deep Relational Encounter Through Participatory Practice-Based Research
… of my thesis is the deliberate embodiment of a maternal experience. Feminist Lise Haller-Ross’ proposes that there is a ‘mother shaped hole in the art world’ and that, ‘as with the essence of the doughnut – we don’t need another hole for the doughnut, we need a whole new recipe’ (conference …