While reference is frequently made to the importance of “stability” for children's adjustment, discussion of the construct of stability typically lacks reference to empirical support. Moreover, empirical studies of stability have largely utilized one of a variety of loosely-arti…
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Immune thrombocytopenia is a blood disorder, characterised by low platelet count, bleeding and bruising. In children, symptoms are generally mild and spontaneous remission is common. Literature relating to other paediatric conditions is reviewed and considered alongside limited …
Paper One: An opportunity sample from three primary schools participated, split between two age categories with 37 children from year groups three and four (mean age of 8 years) and 48 from year groups five and six (mean age of 9 years 11 months). Children’s perspectives of self…
This thesis focuses on associations between child, parent and family emotional and behavioural adjustment and a variety of challenging experiences. The parenting role has a critical influence on child development and parenting outcomes and its importance is reflected in the cont…
The current research explored the thesis that cognitive self-recognition might have an executive function in 3- and 4-year-olds. Although it is well established that children recognise themselves in mirrors by the end of infancy, the cognitive and behavioural impact of this capa…
Aims: The purpose of the qualitative study was to gain insight into the way parents experience and manage the waiting process following a referral to a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. The aim was to use the information for future service delivery and therapeutic enga…
Background This thesis addresses the topic of parental bereavement, using a multi-method approach. It aims to add to knowledge about the phenomenon of parental bereavement, outcomes for bereaved parents following the loss of their child, and factors associated with these outcome…
The thesis consists of two essays. In these essays, I try to address two of the most challenging development issues in Ethiopia, poverty and malnutrition. The foci of the two essays are interrelated but will be examined separately. The title of the first essay is “The Role of Ma…
There is ample research concerning the ways that witnessing domestic violence affects children, but fewer studies investigate how children's relationship to the perpetrator influences their overall functioning. This research investigates the hypothesis that violence perpetrated …
Prevailing research pegs health status to a multitude of explanations, with many countries sharing almost similar experiences, depending on their development trajectory. There is consensus that fragility begets substandard health outcomes. This suggests that settings that are em…
One in six children in the developing world is engaged in Child labor. Child labor is considered an issue that violates children's rights in many countries and Iraq is no exception. In 2004, Iraq had 1,300,000 children between the ages of eight and sixteen years engaged in work …
This study addresses the question of Universal Grammar availability in second language acquisition within the framework of Bley-Vroman's Fundamental Difference Hypothesis, contributing new empirical evidence from learners of Swedish. Johnson and Newport (1989) showed a strong ne…
The death of a child is traumatic for parents. The grief of bereaved fathers is inadequately understood since most studies on this subject have focused primarily on mothers. The goal of this phenomenological study was to understand Black fathers’ experiences following the sudden…
Adult and adolescent patients with illness benefit from religious coping while undergoing treatment (Alcorn et al., 2010; Balboni et al., 2013). Conversely, there is a paucity of research investigating these implications among children with illness. This study uses Interpretativ…
Drawing on research from the fields sociology and demography, this dissertation endeavors to deconstruct the declines in Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) around the world by assessing the power of international institutions to create and enforce global norms across a wide…
Raising a child with a disability, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a unique experience for parents and can have negative effects on mental health, family well-being, and daily functioning. In an attempt to counteract these effects, parents use numerous forms of coping…