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Peters, Barbara J. "The Head Start mother : organizational participation and the selves, self-concepts, and empowerment of low-income mothers /." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-154405/.
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Tong, Choi-ying, and 唐彩瑩. "An empowerment model for mothers with diabetes mellitus children in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31212682.
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Tong, Choi-ying. "An empowerment model for mothers with diabetes mellitus children in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14035509.
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Biederman-Weinstein, Lori. "A descriptive study of the empowerment process of mothers of children who have disabilities." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1646.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenological aspect in the empowerment process of mothers of children with disabilities, and to determine if the coding categories used by Dunst & Trivette (1996) could be replicated. Three mothers of children with disabilities agreed to participate in the study. A semistructured interview was used to determine the specific events that lead to empowerment. Interviews were audio-taped and transcribed by the researcher. Fifteen coding categories and four majors themes of empowerment were identified. Triangulation was used to assure reliability and validity. The findings demonstrated that the coding stages of empowerment as outlined by Dunst & Trivette (1996) are reproducible, as well as the envisionment of the future for their children is the essence of empowerment for these mothers. Specific suggestions are made by which occupational therapists can facilitate the empowerment process of mothers who have children with disabilities.
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Rouhani, Leva. "Promoting Women’s Empowerment Through Grassroots Solidarity: A Case Study of Mothers’ Associations in Benin." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42544.
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In Benin, women in general and rural women in particular are central to the development and sustenance of the household, community, and society at large. Yet, often, they lack the agency, as a result of limited education, life skills, and resources, to contribute to community development, or the structures in place (laws, religious beliefs, policies, and institutions) limit women’s ability to participate in community development. As a result of their limited agency and the unequal structures in society, women in Benin have often been denied participation in decisions around education, health, economy, and agriculture. While women are key actors in all these sectors, they are often not represented sufficiently in the discussions that shape their lives. Women in Benin have collectively organized into associations to address these issues. Associations such as Mothers Associations (MAs) in Benin, have emerged with the specific purpose of improving the education of their daughters. MAs function under the umbrella of Parent Associations (PAs) to address issues of particular concern to girl students. While PAs have helped to improve basic education by putting pressure on school administrators and political leaders to address the quality of schools, these associations have been primarily male dominated, rarely identifying the specific barriers to education for girls.
My dissertation has three main objectives: to assess how MAs in Benin have collectively mobilized to enhance the quality of education for schoolgirls; to determine whether MA activities and mobilization efforts have led to women’s empowerment and influence within their respective communities; and to examine whether MAs have had an impact on changing harmful social norms. Overall, the objective of this research is to examine how members of the MAs have used their collective agency to enhance gender equality within the school and community life. Through a critical feminist approach and applying a socio-ecological model, I examine the process in which African women have mobilized, collaborated, and advocated for girls’ education in ways that subtly undermine the harmful relations of power that govern their position in society.
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Condon, Sharon. "Sole Mothers, Work/Life Balance and Wellbeing: Understanding Constraints and Finding Pathways to Empowerment." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366818.
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Researchers have been increasingly interested in the tensions between paid work and unpaid work since the 1960s. Recently, the term ‘work/life balance’ has gained attention and even political interest, with the Australian Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, announcing it to be a “barbecue stopper” discussion item in 2003. Research has found that work/life conflict impacts upon businesses, families, individuals and communities in terms of lost production, increased health care demands and diminished quality of life. Despite the complexities of work/life balance being intensely interesting to researchers, few have considered the experiences of one of the most time-pressured and socially disadvantaged sub-cultural groups in society in regards to work/life balance: sole mothers. Sole mothers are often constrained by ‘multiple barriers’ and are more likely to suffer from mental health issues, social isolation and a decreased ability to cope with day-to-day pressures and stressors. Such issues affect an increasing number in Australian society as sole mothers have nearly trebled since 1971 and, it is estimated, are set to increase by a further 30% to 60% by the year 2021. This study aims to examine key life domains in the lives of a group of sole mothers to investigate whether the term work/life balance is a useful construct in understanding their lives and wellbeing. Study aims were achieved through utilising a research design aimed at producing grounded theory, enabling the challenging of currently held perceptions regarding work/life balance. At a theoretical level this study adopts social constructivism and feminism as base frameworks, supporting a four-phase data collection strategy which combines in-depth interviews and reflexive ethnography. The domains of paid work and unpaid work have typically featured strongly in regards to work/life balance and recent theorists propose that models should be extended to include health, financial resources, friendships and leisure as key factors. Findings in this study support this assertion, but go further in challenging and extending the debate on work/life balance in society. The findings of this study highlight the many constraints facing sole mothers, the complex nature of ‘balance’ in their lives and the strategies they employ to cope and juggle their many responsibilities. The external life domains suggested by work/life balance theorists all featured in the mothers’ balancing, each offering up constraints and/or opportunities for agency and empowerment. Additional themes of control, choice, sleep and life expectations also emerged strongly in relation to balance and wellbeing. These new themes highlight a view of balance which could be about either ‘juggling’ life domains or experiencing a subjective feeling, giving rise to the identification of two kinds of balance: outer and inner. This thesis proposes that outer balance is reliant upon external domains such as paid work and unpaid work as well as key relationships, financial resources, health and leisure. A sense of inner balance, reliant upon a subjective assessment of the attainment of outer balance in terms of one’s life expectations, was also a key aspect of these mothers’ experience. Inner balance is connected to the experience and attainment of choice and control. Leisure time provides opportunities for reflexivity, assisting in creating and maintaining a sense of self and guiding life decisions, offering opportunities for the attainment of both inner and outer balances. This holistic representation of balance challenges and broadens our understanding of the work/life balance debate by combining external and internal factors and by proposing that balance should not be an end unto itself but, instead, a means to an end: the attainment of a life worth living.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management
Griffith Business School
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LOTTI, GIULIA. "Involving parents in preschool programs: effects on child and mother outcomes." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/81160.
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In the first chapter of the thesis, I present a literature review on early childhood interventions and women’s empowerment: what is the current knowledge on how to promote children’s development since an early stage, what are the ways used to encourage women’s empowerment, how the outcomes are measured and what are the effects of the interventions. In the second chapter I analyse the effects of exploiting an innovative educational program implemented in Latin America on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Finally, in the third chapter of my thesis I look at the effects of this same program on women’s empowerment. It seems that the involvement of women in the education of their children since an early stage improves significantly the condition of both women and children.
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Tumelty, Bridget Patricia. "In their own performance : an ethnographic study of mothers' accounts of interactions with professionals at a children's centre." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621954.
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This study is concerned with how mothers, who have been referred to a children's centre for support with parenting, interpret their interactions with professionals including midwives, health visitors, social workers and family support workers. Previous studies have concentrated on unhelpful, "them and us" othering practices, this project aimed to consider mothers' interpretations of interactions, exploring verbal and non-verbal interactions as well as identifying what interactions with professionals that were helpful or not and why? To explore mothers' stories, I designed an arts based performance ethnographic methodology. Through the use of theme boards and stream of consciousness writing in a drama group context, text was collected over an eighteen month period from 16 mothers. Initial review, editing and distilling of text was carried out with participants, generating 18 scenes for a play performed together in front of a live audience. Text not used in the play was further analysed using narrative analysis and produced an overarching metaphor of a 'dance of compliance'. The dance explores images of mothers navigating steps of vulnerability, risk and compliance. Inhabiting the dance were many overlapping victimizing narratives exposing stories of parenting support presented as life enhancing in a context of scarcity. I found that the women kept dancing not because they were empowered but because the dance is obligatory, driven by the systematic production of unhelpful signs that come to constitute their reality. Theoretical perspective/s used in analysis highlight how children's centres could become a space for symbolic exchanges of support bringing into the light steps of fortitude and humanity. Recommendations for practice centre on the need for professionals to engage in empathic interactions whist always looking for opportunities for mothers to participate in the day to day activities of parenting support.
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Durrani, Riddi, and Amanda Nielsen. "I've become hopeful again : A qualitative study of how the work of NGOs can be beneficial for teenage mothers in the Philippines." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-7837.
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This study aims to examine how the work of NGOs can be beneficial for teenage mothers’ in the Philippines. We wanted to study why they sought support of an NGO and how their lives were impacted after they made contact with an NGO. Teenage pregnancy rates have been rising in the Philippines and mostly affect the young mothers negatively i.e. they often have to quit school and be financially dependent on their parents. They are a stigmatized group and to understand their situation you have to comprehend how the context in the Philippines comes to affect them. The study was conducted using a qualitative inductive method. By using semi-structured interviews, we have collected our material by interviewing eight young mothers who were in contact with two different organizations. The result of the study shows that the work of NGOs has a significant influence in improving the young mothers’ lives both mentally and physically. When becoming pregnant they get rejected by their social circle and are left on their own because they are viewed as a disgrace. To analyze our result, we have used stigmatization and empowerment as theoretical framework. The study has shown that the environment is crucial for the outcome of their lives and that the organizations’ play an important role in their lives to empower them to take action and start something new.
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Montgomery, Natalie D. "Tensions Along the Path Towards Mental Health Literacy for New Immigrant Mothers: Perspectives on Mental Health and Mental Illness." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30728.
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New immigrants to Canada are identified as a vulnerable population in mental health and, as a result, organizations are signaling the need to enhance their mental health supports. The research uses focus groups and questions based on the messaging of a Canadian school mental health program to understand how new immigrant mothers interpret and develop key aspects of their mental health literacy and how they attain parent empowerment. A thematic assessment of the knowledge, interpretation, action and decision-making of the study participants (n=7), all recent immigrants to Canada and mothers of high school students, shows that new immigrant mothers are prepared to follow a path towards mental health literacy. At the same time, however, there are barriers that can block progression towards mental health literacy for this audience. These findings are supported by three umbrella themes: the first main theme “home as haven” espouses maternal roles in mental health maintenance such as protector and communicator, the second main theme “knowledge versus suspicions of mental health and mental illness” represents informed views and support of mental illness and myths and illusions of mental illness, and the third main theme, “additional barriers to mental health literacy” includes the hardships of immigration and fear of knowledge. The study concludes that new immigrant mothers appreciate the importance of fostering mental health understanding and discussion with their children at the same time that they encounter obstacles to the advancement of their mental health literacy. This study is relevant to the field of communication in that it demonstrates the experience of new immigrant mothers as a secondary audience in mental health programming. As the caregivers of their children, they are in position to enforce the messages and health maintenance behaviours of a school-based mental health program aimed at adolescents.
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Favaro, Fernanda. "Under our own eyes - Mothers in search for consciousness and social change in Brazil." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21687.
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This case study provides an analysis on how working women mothers in Brazil articulate themselves in a feminist network born on social media (Maternativa) to generate collective empowerment, raise awareness about oppression and mobilize around work rights. Using qualitative methods such as insider participant observation, interviews and content analysis, it investigates how participatory-related communicative practices and feminism interplay on digital and interpersonal environments fostering dialogue, conscientization and, potentially, a “political turn” in the collective’s agenda. Theoretical underpinnings include Manuel Castells’ network society, participatory communication and Paulo Freire’s theories on oppressed subjects, as well as insights from matricentric and black feminisms. The validity of (feminist) participatory practices for the strengthening of women mothers’ grass-roots movements and its potential applicability to mitigate the limitations of social media are some of the conclusions offered. Despite challenges typical of social movements and a significant “white woman bias”, participation has been able to produce an expanded awareness of the different systems of oppression. As a result, women’s discourse and engagement inside the network has become increasingly political and critical regarding structural power relations in the Brazilian society.
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Musingafi, Maxwell. "Single mothers empowerment through small business development projects in Gweru, Zimbabwe : the case of the GWAPA Poverty Alleviation Programme / Maxwell Constantine Chando Musingafi." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2861.
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This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the GWAPA Single Mothers Poverty alleviation Programme. The study hypothesized that women in Gweru are among the most vulnerable to poverty and disease and GWAPA project may be an effective source to their poverty alleviation. Main objectives of the study were to explain selected development concepts, to explore the relationship between gender and poverty, to investigate the effectiveness of the GWAPA Programme, to outline the challenges faced by GWAPA, and to offer recommendations based on research findings to help improve the effectiveness of the programme. Both theoretical study and empirical research methods were used to ensure a balanced evaluation of the problem. The theoretical study established that the target population for poverty alleviation and development programmes must be fully involved for development to replace poverty. On average women were found to be poorer than men and hence the need for projects that focus on poverty alleviation among women. In the empirical study 375 of the 1756 GWAPA single women members were used as questionnaire respondents, and 3 management employees were sampled for the interviews. Descriptive survey and qualitative participatory approaches were used as the main research methodologies. This hybrid approach was intended to improve the validity and reliability of the outcome of the study by mitigating weaknesses of different individual approaches. This approach would ensure maximum utilization and involvement of subjects and available resources. Questionnaires, interviews and documentary evidence augmented by the researcher's experience with the NGDO were used as research instruments. Of the 375 Questionnaires distributed, 357 (95%) were collected. Various statistical measures were used to summarize and interpret the data, particularly tables, graphs and charts, actual frequencies and percentage rates. Narrative descriptions were also used to explain given scenarios and relationships. The study established that poverty and development are multidimensional concepts, families headed by women are on average poorer than those headed by men, respondents' lives have changed for the better, GWAPA single mothers have work overload especially considering that as women they shoulder the biggest chunk of the family responsibilities, and most of the GWAPA projects which started well were now suffocating under the current economic hardships.. Main challenges faced by GWAPA include the current political and economic environment, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the limited educational levels among its members, members' limited access to resources, community cultural biases and negative attitudes towards single mothers and commercial sex workers, government regulation on financial transactions and the amount of cash one should hold outside the banking system, and work overload among members. The study recommends involvement of GWAPA members' opposite sex partners as affiliates, intensive public campaigns, lobbying and advocacy to remove the stigma and negative attitudes towards single mothers and commercial sex workers, improving infrastructure and the GWAPA Farm operations, engaging long term facilitators, certification after attending training programmes, excelling awards, present manuals in mother languages, and alternative fundraising strategies. The government and municipalities are encouraged to invest more in the small enterprise sector as it has proven to have the capability to create employment and develop communities by mobilizing the grassroots. The study also recommends a more detailed and deeper participatory study, related comparative studies that show differences and similarities between related projects in different areas in Zimbabwe, and similar studies on DNGOs that work with both sexes in different areas in Zimbabwe.Thesis (M. Development and Management)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2009.
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Gregg, Rebecca A. "Delivery and engagement in public health nutrition : the use of ethnographic fiction to examine the socio-cultural experiences of food and health among mothers of young children in Skelmersdale, Lancashire." Thesis, University of Chester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/310904.
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Encouraging good nutrition is particularly important in the early years of life for the development of appropriate food habits and healthy adults in later life. These are governed by many contending and conflicting influences. Objective: This research examines the food choice influences for mothers of young children in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire (UK). Participants were recruited from a large community food intervention (clients) and were compared with those not involved in the initiative (non-clients). This enabled the reflection of the broader socio-cultural experiences of food and the influence of 'structure' and 'agency' on food choices. The research adopted a phenomenological approach using ethnographic recording techniques (interview and observation). The research findings are presented as ethnographic fictions. These short fictional stories provide a 'thick' description of the participant's lifeworld. They locate these choices in the person and the place. A hierarchy of food choice influences emerged from the data, with three main findings. Most prominently, the influence of individual capacity on the food choices made. Secondly, the influence of place, town planning and the geography of an area on food choices. Thirdly, the influence of gender, relationships and social networks. Central to the thesis of this research is the use of ethnographic fiction to enable a better understanding of the complexity involved in food choice and community development approaches to nutritional change. The use of ethnographic fiction conveyed a better understanding of people and of the role and impact of an intervention upon the wider processes involved in food choice. Ethnographic fiction was used here for the first time in public health nutrition to explain the complex picture of food choice for mothers of young children in Skelmersdale, and to convey new insight on food choice and the complexity of food choice influence.
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Janardanan, Dipa. "Images of loss in Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman, Marsha Norman's Night, mother, and Paula Vogel's How I learned to drive." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11122007-085911/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Matthew C. Roudane, committee chair; Pearl McHaney, Nancy Chase, committee members. Electronic text (208 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-208).
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CHANG, LING-CHEN, and 張令臻. "The Empowerment of Single Mothers Group-The Strengths Perspective." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31268259895571088620.
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abstract The aim of this thesis is to establish a model for appropriate usage of low-income housing in the battle against poverty, in particular the Taipei Fu-Ming low-income housing program. Compiling descriptions form single parent mothers who have already purchased homes, as well as analysis of their economic circumstances through every stage from the initial descent into poverty to an eventual recovery, the thesis summarizes the key reasons which allowed for a successful escape from poverty. In addition, low-income single mothers who are currently living in low-income housing and want to escape poverty were asked to join a support group. As an organized group they would be better prepared to face their situation with one another’s support and encouragement. Secondly, the thesis aims to create a focal point for discussion on this issue using an analysis of those researched using an individualized assessment of the strength theory. Using a framework composed of seven different life situations, information was collected on the current situations of these single-mothers, their needs and desires for the future, as well as their abilities and relevant resources in the past. This data is used to establish a proper concept of this situation as well as to strengthen the motivation and will of impoverished single parents to escape their situation. Research for this study was compiled using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and in all there were nine subjects who cooperated in our research. The following conclusions can be made as a result of information gathered in the research process as well as our results: 1. The strength of affordable low-income housing in allowing single parents to escape from poverty has immediately recognizable effects. 2. Strength theory allows social workers to better assess the situation of their clients. 3. The strength of Fu-Ming housing program is to integrate the resources of both private and public entities. 4. Avoid social phenomenon which tend to lead to an M-shaped society. Key word：single parent, empowerment, focus group, strengths perspective, affordable housing
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Coulter, Fred W. "Relationship of service coordinators' family-centered service delivery and maternal empowerment in Tennessee's Early Intervention System." 2006. http://etd.utk.edu/2006/CoulterFred.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006.Title from title page screen (viewed on September 19, 2006). Thesis advisor: Vey M. Nordquist. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Emdal, Elisabeth. "The way out of gendered poverty? Economic empowerment of young ugandan mothers through NGO support." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12444.
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Women’s important role in development is widely recognised today, as is their need
for empowerment. Many Ugandan women are in a marginalised position because of
lack of education, gainful employment, access to health, and inequality of
opportunities, resources and rights in society as well as the in household. Combined
with traditional gender expectations such as childbearing and domestic duties, women
are experiencing adversities and many are living in deep poverty. Having scarce
access to financial resources as well as entering into motherhood at an early age
means that there are many challenges facing young mothers in Uganda.
The aim of this project was to investigate to what extent NGO programmes that are
tailored to economically empower young mothers actually benefit them. Many
initiatives have been made to enhance women’s employability and economic status,
and this study looked at the strategies of the NGO Health Child. The young mothers’
experience of the NGO programme and its immediate benefits as well as long-term
impact was thoroughly explored.
Fifteen mothers between the ages of 18 to 24 living in the Jinja district, Eastern region
of Uganda participated in the research. They provided information through in-depth
interviews about their lives before their involvement with Health Child, their
experiences of becoming and being beneficiaries, the impact this had on their lives
and those of their families, and their plans and hopes for the future. Additionally,
three key informants from the NGO were interviewed to provide background
information, as well as an organisational and professional perspective.
The findings from the research revealed that, although the young mothers had been
involved with the NGO programme for varying lengths of time, the majority
expressed that it has had a positive impact in their lives. Immediate benefits included
being able to afford basic needs for the family, the building of networks and
friendships with other beneficiaries and in the community, acquisition of skills and
the ability to start planning the future, through for instance starting up enterprises or
buying land. It became evident that some of the young mothers had already been able
to reap some long-term benefits such as more respect and an improved relationship
with their husbands alongside the economic empowerment.
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Hutchinson, Paula S. "Predictors of Better Health Outcomes of Mothers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/12793.
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Caring for children with autism place mothers at high risk for poor health outcomes and compromises the health of all family members (e.g., Bristol, 1987; Hastings et al., 2005a). Although poor outcomes prevail, some mothers do well despite their caregiving challenges. While ample research exists on mothers’ supports and stress, virtually nothing is known about their strengths. Emerging research suggests that parental self-efficacy and empowerment may contribute to better outcomes in mothers of children with autism. The purpose of the present study was to identify predictors of better outcomes in mothers of children with autism. Relationships among child disruptive behaviour, supports, self-efficacy, empowerment, maternal distress and positive perceptions of parenting were examined using a postal survey design. Mothers (N = 114) of school-age children with autism provided demographic information and completed various scales (i.e., the Developmental Behaviour Checklist, Family Support, Difficult Behaviour Self-Efficacy, Family Empowerment, Hospital Anxiety and Depression, Positive Contribution). Overall, 35% of the variance was explained in maternal distress (i.e., anxiety and depression). After accounting for mothers’ age and child disruptive behaviour, support and empowerment were subsumed by parental self-efficacy in predicting lower levels of maternal distress. Collectively, 17% of the variance was explained in mothers’ positive perceptions of parenting. Self-efficacy partially mediated the moderate effect of disruptive behaviour on mothers’ distress and fully mediated the small effect of disruptive behaviour on mothers’ positive perceptions of parenting. Thus, parental self-efficacy for managing children’s difficult behaviour is very promising for preserving mothers’ health. While discussion focuses on outstanding issues to be addressed, the findings suggest that tailoring formal services to enhance parental efficacy, rather than providing support and consultation services alone, would be more in line with mothers’ needs and possibly improve both children’s and families’ outcomes.
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Kwon, Yi Jeong. "Empowerment/disempowerment issues in immigrant parents’ school involvement experiences in their children’s schooling : Korean immigrant mothers’ perceptions." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5742.
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Using Delgado-Gaitan and Trueba’s (1991) empowerment/disempowerment definition as a framework, this dissertation investigated how Korean immigrant mothers perceived and practiced parental involvement in their children’s schooling, and how an empowerment/disempowerment process occurred during their involvement. To inquire into the research questions, this study used the qualitative case study method, and five Korean immigrant mothers were the cases. The interview method was used to gather data, and an unstructured interview protocol, as well as a semi-structured interview protocol, was used for the interviews. Each mother was interviewed three times.
From this study, I found these things: For the concept of schooling, all the Korean mothers in this study agreed that schooling is all activities relevant to acquiring abilities related to having a better school life, and that the concept of parental involvement includes all the activities to support their children’s schooling, regardless of activity types. In a comparison of their beliefs and their practices for involvement, they show accord in terms of the comprehensive nature of parental involvement. However, there were also discrepancies between their perceptions and practices of involvement.
To get an understanding of the discrepancy issue, their involvement experiences were explored, based on an empowerment/disempowerment framework. The Korean immigrant mothers showed distinctive features in empowerment and disempowerment while they were involved in their children’s schooling. First, they felt contradictory feelings—guilt and pride-- toward their identity, and this influenced their empowerment and disempowerment. The second feature was the struggles that the Korean immigrant mothers reported: cultural differences, exclusion, and a lack of English skill for involvement. Last, the most salient feature to influence their empowerment/disempowerment was the standard they were using to evaluate their involvement.
These findings were discussed in terms of the features of empowerment/ disempowerment and the factors that influenced their empowerment and disempowerment. The Korean mothers’ standard of evaluation was discussed in depth, since it was determined to be the most basic issue to impact their empowerment/ disempowerment experiences. Based on the findings, this dissertation concluded with presenting implications for teachers, educational administrators, and Korean immigrant mothers themselves, and with suggestions for future research.text
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Salmon, Amy. "Beyond guilt, shame, and blame to compassion, respect and empowerment : young aboriginal mothers and the first nations and inuit fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects initiative." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16938.
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Over the past decade, the "problem" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal
Alcohol Effects among Aboriginal peoples has received increasing attention from the
Canadian nation-state. However, few feminist, anti-racist, anti-ableist, and anti-colonial
scholars have offered a critique of FAS/E "prevention" policies aimed at Aboriginal
women. In this dissertation, I present my analysis of the "official knowledge" and "public
pedagogies" articulated in one such policy, The First Nations and Inuit Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome/ Fetal Alcohol Effects Initiative (herein "the Initiative"). This analysis unravels
the complex and contradictory tensions in contemporary state policy formation. My
findings show how the Initiative paradoxically supports the development of inclusive,
grassroots approaches to FAS/E prevention in Aboriginal communities while at the same
time eclipsing the voices and concerns of Aboriginal women.
Though neglected in the official policy texts and talk of the Initiative, young
Aboriginal mothers' agency and insights are central in the dialectic of ideology,
discourse, and lived experience that this study documents. To facilitate this shift, I
engage a productive methodological synthesis of textual analysis, institutional
ethnography, and participatory research, by grounding my analysis of the texts in indepth
group interviews with six Aboriginal mothers whose lives include substance use
and FAS/E.
This study offers significant implications for the development of future policy,
research, and "culturally appropriate" pedagogy for and about FAS/E "prevention". My
findings do not support the outright rejection of medical models of disability, as has been
favoured by many critical theorists and activists on the grounds that such models are
universally oppressive and disenfranchising. Rather, the women's insights into their own
lived experiences emphasize the simultaneously enabling and disabling consequences of
medicalization. Accordingly, my findings underscore the urgent need to reconsider the
roles of "race", gender, class, nation and dis/ability in contemporary theories and
practices of substantive citizenship and nation-building in and outside of education.Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
Graduate
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Hui, Wu Hsin, and 吳欣蕙. "The Empowerment of SFBT Counseling on Autistic Children'' s Mother." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43620695208194705940.
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Goals of this study are exploring the phenomena after solution-focused brief therapy(SFBT) applied on the mothers of autistic children, and which empowerment is caused. Based on qualitative research method, SFBT is taken as a strategy of intervention in this study. With questionnaires made by author and deep interviews are adopted, collecting the features of clients’ powerlessness and whether the empowerment is caused during counseling. Results of the study are the following: 1. Powerlessness of the autistic children’s mother is from: (1) taking the responsibilities of caring autistic children individually; (2) having heavily economic pressure; (3) the progress is slowly after intensive training; (4) the caring on autistic children makes the relationships with other family members worse; (5) lacking of her own break to catch their breath; (6) the emotional support in society is less; and (7) continuous dilemma and challenges that children are not accepted. 2. Skills of SFBT applied on the autistic children’s mothers are: Based on the results of this study, the skills, arising the empowerment of client more easily are the following: compliment (positive feedback), reframing, coping question, exception, hypothetical solution, metaphors and stories. 3. The empowerment effects on autistic children''s mothers are: (1) positive thinking. (2) self-appreciation. (3) the raising ability of self-awareness. (4) adopting the constructive coping strategies. (5) trying to change. (6) conscious of changes. (7) feeling they are powerful. (8) accepting the limits of life. (9) cherishing and appreciating. (10) having positive connection with others. (11) responsible. (12) the raising of self-caring. (13) using resources effectively. (14) can help other people to feedback. Based on the above discussed, the researcher make some suggestions for autistic children’s mothers, doctors, educators, social workers, and counselors.
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HSU, CHIN-WEI, and 許晉維. "Unfinished Journey-The Empowerment Experience of the Mother of an Adult with Severe Autism." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yu8ytc.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
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This study aims to explore the life experiences of the mother whose adult child with severe autism, and searches for the experience of parent empowerment during the process of upbringing severe autism child. This study took narrative approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with the mother whose adult child with severe autism. The mother uses travel journey as a metaphor for her life experiences, presenting how she was empowered through solving difficulties, and grew from a beginner to an empowered individual. In this study, I found out that the predicaments of autistic children’s mothers includes adult severe autistic patients had been chronically affected by his own physical and mental issues. Thus it lead to difficulties in school and social adaptation, emotional behavior problems, parents-child relationship, siblings’ relationship and extremely impulsive personality, causing parents’ education pressure.Based on Koren(1992) theory, parent empowerment were derived from the interaction between parents, professionals and the environment, and divided into three aspects, which were attitude, knowledge, and behavior. These three aspects were not independent but interlocked like gears. Each sole empowerment may lead to the occurrence of other aspects, which ultimately result to an overall parent empowerment. As family goes into different stages, the challenges will continue to occur, allowing parents empowerment goes around the cycle and thrive again. At the end of the research, the mother’s life experience suggests a deficiency of the existing system, providing advice for parents to regard the challenge as the positive process, acting as the bridge between family and external resources, and empowering themselves from overcoming upcoming challenges. This research aims to arouse the importance of transition service and pushes the establishment of parents’ and sibling’s supporting groups, and eventually initiates future researches discuss the parent empowerment from father’s or even entire family’s perspective.
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Chiang, Mei-Chu, and 蔣美珠. "The Narrative Inquiry on the Adaptation Experiences and Empowerment of the Mother of a Child with Autism." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ehcczc.
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碩士淡江大學
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The study used the in-depth interviews of the narrative inquiry approach based on the Riessman’s theory to elaborate upon the adaptation experiences and empowerment of the mother of a moderate autistic child.Three data were collected which were the transcripts of interviews, the personal documents from the mother of a moderate autistic child and the diary from the researcher. The main findings of this study were as follows: 1. The histories of the mother and a moderate autistic child, including her parenting course, adapted experiences and the empowering transition, were described. 2. The transition towards mother''s empowerment had the following four stages: (a) awareness of powerlessness and problems; (b) establishing concepts; (c) taking action to develop the resources and skills; and(d) outcome. Mother and child''s life affected each other and grew together. Further, the transition towards mother''s empowerment was a uniquely individual and ongoing process, and did not produce a fixed end point. v 3. The components of mother''s empowerment were as follows: (a) awareness of positive views; (b) support from people; (c) access to valued resources; (d) action of participation; and (e) personal belief. As shall be seen, these components provided the mother of a moderate autistic child with an opportunity to increase her own motivation, and the sense of self-efficacy. Moreover, the components of mother''s empowerment in the empowering process were interrelated and involved each other. 4. The reflection of the researcher was presented, which was about the role of a teacher, a Christian and a mother. Finally, based on the results and discussion of this study, the suggestions were proposed for government agencies, educational institutions, the mother of an autistic child and future research.
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王文姬. "The rice and empowerment of female volunteer works' consciousness:taking the "mother story tellers" of tuchen primary school for example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32421718149889563264.
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Modungwa, Nonceba Maithian. "The ace model for facilitation of mastery of SOS mother's autonomy through empowerment as part of promoting their mental health." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5826.
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D.Cur.The occupation of the SOS mother, which involves long-term care for orphaned and abandoned children under the SOS Children's Villages organisation, is unique and peculiar in many respects. She is expected to play a dual role of being a foster parent and a childcare professional, at the same time. The latter presents challenges of its own because the professional status is only recognised internally by the organisation. In one way or another, most of the children for which the SOS mother is responsible, have been exposed to some form of trauma. The problems of caring and parenting such children are well documented in the literature. These include learning and behaviour problems. For this reason, the mental health of the SOS mother, who is the focus of this study, should be of special interest to mental health practitioner. The motivation for this study arises out of a change that the organisation is trying to enforce in the work of the SOS mother. This change comes with the release of the new quality standards to guide village work. One of these standards, the SOS mother's autonomy, requires the SOS mother, like any mother in the community to take full responsibility for her SOS family, including the development of the children under her care. When she needs help, she seeks expert advice from village co-workers and from the community. In addition, the career of the SOS mother has to be developed so that she functions like a childcare professional and that her training is recognised by the government and other training institutions. This represents a big change from how most SOS villages have been operating. Up to this point, village co-workers made important decisions about the SOS family and the children while the SOS mother did the caring part. The change is expected to affect the interactions between SOS mothers and their co-workers and consequently, their mental health. For this reason, it was felt that there was a need to facilitate the implementation of the SOS mother's autonomy standard, which would also promote the mental health of the SOS mothers. The purpose of this research was, therefore, to develop and describe a model that would serve as a framework for the advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner to promote the mental health of SOS mothers by facilitating the implementation of the SOS mother's autonomy within SOS Children's Villages of Southern Africa Region 11. The research also focused on developing guidelines for the implementation of the model in practice.
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Cimon, Mimi. "Social identities and psycho-social needs in adolescents’ health literate practices." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1976.
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Adolescent perspectives on health and the social and literate values of their health related behaviours require exploration and examination in health literacy, as knowledge gaps related to the constituents of health literate practices, and the functions and acquisition of health literacy exist in the literature. Research addressing this was approached based on socio-cultural and socio-ecological principles using a collective instrumental case design. Participants were new adolescent mother aged 15-18 recruited from 4 different community/education programs around Victoria, BC. Data was collected over a four month period, and consisted of individual and focus group interviews, journals, and researchers’ observations and field notes. Findings show that participants’ health behaviours changed significantly in tandem with their identities, the groups they associated with, and the social contexts they moved within. Findings indicate that identity, informal social environments, and unconscious cognitive process and psychosocial needs play a role in adolescents health literacy and literate practices.
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Madebwe, Crescentia. "Husband immobility and the international migration of married women from Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18571.
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This thesis examined husband immobility and the international migration of married women from Zimbabwe. Data was collected from husbands and wives in married couple households where the wife had migrated alone. Face-to-face semi structured interviews were conducted with migrant women’s husbands in Zimbabwe while migrant women were interviewed in countries of destination telephonically. Empirical results showed that migrant women and their husbands were middle aged. Preferred countries of destination were in the region and the United Kingdom. Having a wife’s own social contacts in the preferred destination encouraged migration by reducing financial and emotional costs. Husbands' immobility facilitated wifely migration. Many wives exercised agency in migration decision making with more wives than husbands having initiated the discussion on migration. There were also cases of joint and wife sole decision making. With a few exceptions decision making was consensual. The women migrated as a survival strategy. In several households remittances were the primary source of income. Husbands were the main recipients of remittances. Some wives gave instructions on how the remittances should be used. Overall, remittances were used for paying fees, buying assets and for household upkeep. Some of the women had not visited their families since their migration. The physical separation of spouses had caused emotional distress in some marital relationships. The majority of respondents cited loss of consortium as a major problem.Sociology
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Wamba, André. "Reconnaître pour choisir, orienter et rencontrer : mères, guérisseurs et biomédecins à l’épreuve des rencontres et reconnaissances en milieux pédiatriques camerounais." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10784.
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Si hier les guérisseurs revendiquaient uniquement le besoin de reconnaissance, aujourd’hui, ils se battent plutôt pour que la reconnaissance qui leur a été accordée par l’État soit capable d’intégrer les conceptions africaines de la maladie et des thérapies ; de les protéger au même titre que les biomédecins dans l’exercice de leur profession ; de protéger les malades en cas de préjudices moral et physique. Ils craignent que la reconnaissance [accordée] ne soit pas reconnue juridiquement par une loi camerounaise qui régule leurs pratiques de soins. Dans la mesure où, sans une reconnaissance juridique et institutionnelle, il leur est impossible de se maintenir dans l’espace [public] de sociabilité thérapeutique ; de changer, à partir de la position illégitime, leurs conditions de praticiens précaires, et surtout leur relation aux usagers de soins [les mères] et aux biomédecins. Dans cette perspective, on se demande quelles sont les modalités d’intéressement ou de désintéressement mutuel qui permettent aux guérisseurs – affaiblis institutionnellement – et aux biomédecins – fortement reconnus – d’évoluer vers une réciprocité de perspectives. L’étude cherche à identifier les modes d’arrachement à l’affaiblissement institutionnel, en s’intéressant, d’un côté, aux processus de capacitation et de renforcement de la légitimité ; et de l’autre, à l’impact de ce renforcement, d’abord, sur la redéfinition des objets et figures de la rencontre et de la reconnaissance, et ensuite, sur la reconfiguration de l’espace de soins et du profil du thérapeute camerounais contemporain. Pour répondre à cet objectif, nous avons sollicité le cadre théorique de la sociologie des épreuves d’inspiration pragmatiste [Thévenot, Boltanski, Gennard et Cantelli] et de l’anthropologie capacitaire [Ricœur]. Les observations de consultations en Maisons de Soins [chez les guérisseurs] et au Centre Mère et Enfant [Hôpital pédiatrique] et les entretiens individuels effectués à Yaoundé [Cameroun] ont engendré une réflexion sur le sens que donnent les mères, guérisseurs et biomédecins au fait de rencontrer ou de refuser de rencontrer un soignant. L’analyse des données recueillies inscrit la rencontre dans l’axe de la reconnaissance capacitaire [des compétences], permettant ainsi d’envisager une pluralité de figures de la reconnaissance et de la rencontre. Elle indique aussi que si la formation à l’identité professionnelle biomédicale constitue pour les guérisseurs une tactique de renforcement de leur légitimité, l’inscription en médecines africaines de certains biomédecins [résistants ou non conformistes] les prédisposent à une résistance institutionnelle aux normes biomédicales ; ce qui permet de nuancer, au regard de la pluralisation et de la diversification des rationalités en jeu, la compréhension du caractère
monolithique des institutions. Il en résulte une réflexion sur le brouillage des frontières entre les médecines africaines et la biomédecine, ce brouillage ayant alors comme conséquences, entre autres, une possible fragmentation ou morcellement de ces médecines en termes de «biomodernisation» des médecines africaines et de «traditionalisation» de la biomédecine en contexte africain.If yesterday the need for recognition was the core claim among traditional health practitioners, today, their quest resides in the recognition not only of their practice but also of the African conceptions of diseases and therapies; in their protection as profesionnals (such as biomedical health practictioners); in the protection of patients in case of moral or physical prejudices. The traditional health practitioners fear that their recognition will not extend to or be sanctioned by Cameroonian law, which regulates their care practices. Without legal and institutional recognition, it is impossible for these practitioners to remain in the social care space; to change, from their illegitimate position, their condition of precarious practitioners, and especially their relationship to biomedical health practitioners. Thus, what are the modalities of mutual interestedness or disinterestedness that allow traditional [institutionally weakened] and biomedical practitioners [strongly recognized] to evolve towards reciprocity of perspectives? The study is seeking to identify modes of wrenching from the institutional weakening, focusing, on one hand, on empowerment and reinforcing processes of healers’ legitimacy; and on the other hand, to the impact of empowerment on the redefinition of objects and figures of encounter and of recognition, on the reconfiguration of social care space and the profile of the therapist. To achieve this objective, we have sought the reference framework of sociology of proofs and the anthropology of capacity of Ricœur. The observations of consultations in «Maisons de Soins» and to the «Centre Mère et Enfant» and interviews have led to a reflection on the interpretation associated by mothers, traditional and biomedical health practitioners to what it means to consult or refuse to consult traditional healer or biomedical practitioner. The analysis of data situates the encounter in the axis of capacity of recognition, allowing us to consider multiple figures of recognition and of encounter. It shows that if the adoption of the biomedical professional identity constitutes for traditional health practitioners a tactic of reinforcement of their legitimacy, the integration in African medicines of some biomedical health practitioners predispose them to an institutional resistance to biomedical norms; making it possible to nuance the comprehension of the monolithic character of institutions, given pluralization and diversification of rationalities at stake. This results in a reflection on blurring of frontiers of African medicines and biomedicine, thus giving place to a possible fragmentation of these medicines in terms in terms of biomodernization of African medicines and traditionalization of biomedicine.
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Mazuruse, Mickson. "A critical appraisal of the harmonisation of Shona-Nyai cross-border varieties in Zimbabwe and Mozambique." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18689.
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The study sought to explore possibilities of harmonising Shona-Nyai cross-border varieties in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Emerging from the responses were problems of attitudes, ignorance of what the harmonisation project entails and the different levels of development among the varieties to be harmonised. Participants believed that the challenges they faced could be resolved and they proposed some intervention strategies. Results from the questionnaire, the interview and documents analysed affirmed the generally held view that, the future of Shona-Nyai as a language and culture is securely in the hands of the speakers’ initiatives. The argument of the study has been that, the success of such a harmonisation project depends on the presence of favourable and conducive political and economic conditions through enabling language engineering activities.
Information collected from the questionnaires was mainly presented in tables and information from interviews and document analysis was presented qualitatively in words. The language as a right and the language as resource orientations of language planning guided this study. The intention was to show that the preservation of linguistic diversity is important in the maintenance of group and individual identity and harmonisation should further this cause. Findings from this thesis indicate that for a successful harmonisation project to take place there is need for research in the documentation of underdeveloped Shona-Nyai varieties so that they have some presence in the education domain. The study recommends that people’s mindsets must be changed by packaging the harmonisation project in a way which they understand and appreciate. A holistic approach in solving the language problem can be achieved through a mixed approach of language policy formulation.African Languages
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