Dissociative processes in children and adolescents entail alterations in memory, identity, and perception that reflect and/or precipitate disconnects across biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral systems. Children of maltreatment survivors are at heightened risk for va…
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Background: Caregiver perceived stress is considered a predictive factor of poor outcome or associated poor quality of life for caregivers and care recipients, such as unplanned care recipients’ rehospitalizations. Such readmissions are significantly related to greater caregiver…
The aim of this research study was to elicit risk and protective factors associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in vulnerable adolescent learners. The results were used to formulate a TBI support programme. A qualitative approach, using multiple case studies, was used to o…
Substance use among women has increased in recent years (SAMHSA, 2019). SAMHSA (2009) recommends that substance use be treated differently in women due to the biopsychosocial differences from men, such as progression of substance use disorders, comorbid and co-occurring psycholo…
Background: As the primary source of care for individuals with cancer, family caregivers are relied on for treatment support and emotional care during the cancer trajectory. Studies on caregiver burden and psychological sequelae among cancer caregivers have been conducted cross-…
This study investigated the use of storytelling in order to support children's emergent literacy in Malawi's resource deprived Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCCs). It focused on the professional development of four caregivers from four CBCCs following a Formative and Desig…
The objectives of this thesis were to explore the effects of receptive individualised live and recorded-music on interactions within participating dyads consisting of a person with dementia who was in their final phase of life (resident), and a person with whom he or she shared …
This research examines narratives about the quality of everyday life with dementia. The aim of the study is to compare and contrast differing perspectives about the impact of ageing and dementia upon the lives of older people with dementia. A total of 50 interviews with six olde…
A large number of studies have investigated the aging process, by examining its impact on elderly's lives and family members' coping with the need to care for their aging parents. The main questions of these studies were: Whether and how to intervene in parents' lives? When will…
The purpose of the current research was to examine the emotion socialization of toddlers’ in an Indian context from the perspective of multiple caregivers. This research is a part of cross-cultural research on emotion socialization in five cultural groups, namely, India, United …
In this study, we explore how specific individual, family, and family-within-community characteristics, as well as aspects of in-home family therapy, relate to responses to treatment. The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale scores and Global Assessment of Functionin…
This study examines the experiences, stress levels and coping skills in caregivers of disabled adults and children with and without disability and the possible changes occurring over time. Participants were primary caregivers recruited using convenience snowballing sampling from…
Over eight million American women are diagnosed with major clinical depression every year. Due to the chronic and debilitating nature of this severe and persistent mental illness, it is generally necessary to provide them with care. Traditionally the caregiving of persons with s…
There is an increasing demand for family members to become caregivers because of rising costs in medical care, and this shift in medical care necessitates focused attention on this new population of informal caregivers. Most of the literature has focused on caregivers of patient…
Background. Sleep has been shown to be shorter and more disturbed in Alzheimer's caregivers compared to non-caregivers, presumably due to challenges associated with caregiving. Caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease has also been associated with increased risk for cardiova…
Cystic fibrosis (CF) – a genetic, progressive disease affecting approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States – has been linked with psychological maladjustment and clinical difficulties among both affected individuals and their caregivers, specifically as the disease pr…
In the United States there has been an increase of grandmothers caring for their grandchildren in the absence of their parents. Researchers have found that grandmothers are in a constant struggle with grandchildren exhibiting antisocial behavior. The gap in research does not add…
The current study examined family-level intervening variables hypothesized to link severe economic adversities in post-war Bosnia with adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. The study design essentially replicated the family stress model in post-war Bosnia. This st…
A qualitative, explorative, and experiential study was conducted with seventeen hospitalized Muslim women in Omaha, Nebraska through initial, follow-up, and termination interviews. The study was coded, analyzed, and synthesized, and themes were discovered. The importance of reco…