Ante las actuales desafíos que enfrenta América Latina, los instrumentos acordados en el marco en el marco de las Naciones Unidas ofrecen una base importante para la implementación de políticas públicas innovadoras. En la Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible se reconocen la…
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…
This study investigated what were the most highly-valued reasons among Muslim caregivers for sending their children to Lebanese evangelical Christian schools. Muslim caregivers (N = 1,403) from four Lebanese evangelical Christian schools responded to determine what were the most…
The methodology of this study is a hermeneutic and imaginal one that captures the mythological threads that are the foundation of healing. Discovering and integrating these archetypal and psychic energies with those who are seriously ill and with their caregivers, is the focus o…
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. In this work, the 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal argues that w…
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. In this work, the 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal argues that w…
