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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"relationships with family"”.
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Exploring the experiences and understandings of psychosis through relationships with family members, mental health services, and society
… themes were developed: Understanding through relationships; Recovery and hope; Sense of self; and Medication. Recommendations for clinical practice and future research were made. There is a widespread narrative in most Westernised societies that mental health difficulties ‘run in families’. …
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Treasure
… post-traumatic stress disorder is hampered by relationships with family members and the legal difficulties of her foster daughter.</p>
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A Last Resort For Desperate People
… characters navigate their respective worlds with a combination of cynicism and vulnerability that often forces them to reexamine their relationships with family members, friends, and lovers. I am interested in how humor can potentially steer a narrative in unforeseeable directions while …
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College Student Vulnerability to Harmful Religious Groups Based on Perceptions.
… a person to dissolve social and financial relationships with family, friends, and the surrounding community. Surveys were given to randomly selected cluster samples of students currently enrolled at the university. These surveys consisted of demographic questions and a scale designed to …
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Memorial Day observed
… role in that process or creation of identity. Relationships with family, friends, and strangers are used to examine the effect which basic differences in ideology within those relationships have on the formation of one's identity, while demonstrating an awareness of the role which the shared …
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Beyond Jungle Fever: an Exploratory Study of Interracial Couples' Communication Patterns
… strategies to define themselves, interact with society, and manage relationships with family, peers, and strangers. As the bulk of interracial literature focuses on quantitative data, this research was conducted using a qualitative research design. Interracial couples were contacted and …
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Adult new readers: the impact on family
… the changes that occurred in marital, child and family of origin relationships when an adult who was previously illiterate became literate. Eleven adult new readers participated in in-depth interviews. The results indicate that learning to read is not an isolated skill but changes the "self" of …
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Examining Factors Which Influence Expatriate Educator Turnover in International Schools Abroad
… and expatriate teachers from schools associated with the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE). Expatriate teacher departure is greatly influenced by the teacher’s age as well as the number of dependent children they have. Though not statistically significant, personal …
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Parent Aggression and Youth Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Stability and Mutual Influence
<p>Parent aggression exists on a continuum with corporal punishment at one end and abuse at the other. There is still controversy as to whether any kind of parent aggression toward an adolescent contributes to externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Relative to what is known about parent …
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Assigning Myself: an Action Research Investigation Into the Making of Writing Assignments
… composition, I completed my own assignments with my students in an attempt to illustrate both the value of teacher action research and the need for teachers of writing to attempt their own writing assignments. One discovery among many that I made was that my students and I found the same …
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The world of adolescence : using photovoice to explore psychological sense of community and wellbeing in adolescence with and without an intellectual disability
… Australia, a specialist school for students with a mild intellectual disability, and a mainstream school. Using Photovoice, an ethnographic research method utilising photographs generated by the research participants as the primary data source, the participants were actively engaged in taking …
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Resilient Lives: A Critical Narrative Inquiry into the Triumphs and Struggles of Five African-American Women with Doctoral Degrees
… and trials of five African American women with doctoral degrees in the field of Education. The project is a storytelling and questioning inquiry that is woven around themes of race, gender, spirituality, and family channels through which academia and the world were explored. Although the …
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Predictors of Gang Affiliation Among Adolescents: Implications for Social Work Students
… predictive and preventive factors, such as relationships with family and school. This study will show if current social worker students are aware of the more common factors that lead to adolescent gang affiliation. This will help determine if social work students are just getting a little …
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Predictors of Gang Affiliation Among Adolescents: Implications for Social Work Students
… predictive and preventive factors, such as relationships with family and school. This study will show if current social worker students are aware of the more common factors that lead to adolescent gang affiliation. This will help determine if social work students are just getting a little …
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The impact of food consumption patterns on identity: the case of Zimbabwean inbetweeners living in the UK
… foods, economic independence, the importance of family and the structured nature of British schools influenced how identity was expressed and constructed. The findings showed that food is a tool that the respondents used to contruct their identity, to develop and maintain relationships with …
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The effects of acquired disability on interpersonal relationships in Japan : an intercultural approach
… the abled. In-depth interviews were conducted with six Japanese men (average age 44.3 years), all of whom experienced the transition from being a member of the nondisabled majority to becoming a member of the disabled minority when they received spinal cord injuries in traffic accidents. The …
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What Counts as Happiness for Young People in the Second Decade of the 21st Century? An Exploration
… for them. Data was collected in three phases with 42 young people aged 13-16 from a large, multicultural school in South Central England. I devised a new method of “happiness maps”, inviting young people to consider what aspects of their lives they associated with happiness, plotting these on …
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"My Journey Out Of...": How Women Narrate Their Religious Departures
… storytelling as a theoretical framework, located within the rhetorical uses of personal narratives, and ask: What are the types of challenges, experiences, and topics that nonreligious women include in their stories?; How do these autobiographies invite readers to understand personal accounts of …
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Psychological factors in social relationships and home functioning of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
… samples alike. However, it has not been tested with chronic fatigue syndrome patients, to see if positive expressivity predicts better social relationships. Secondly, dysfunctional attitudes concerning attainment and achievement, and poor everyday routine, have been associated with poorer …
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A Profile of the Nontraditional College Student and Implications for Institutional Policies
… students indicated that they interrelated well with traditional students and their instructors and generally felt very positive about the effects of college attendance. They felt that their age and experiences caused them to have more to contribute in class than the younger students. College …
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