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Sin, Chui-shan Tammy, and 冼翠珊. "Children's adjustment to parental separation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977455.
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Sin, Chui-shan Tammy. "Children's adjustment to parental separation." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13745116.
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Greenstone, Harriet. "Children's reactions to parental separation." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59247.
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The purpose of this study was to fully explore children's reactions to parental separation and to look at these reactions in relation to a number of environmental, demographic, and temperamental variables. The study also investigated parents' perceptions of children's reactions and the relationship between the two. Forty children between the ages of 8 and 12 years, inclusive, whose parents had been separated less than 3 years, participated in the study. A number of descriptive and ethnographic procedures were utilized. A negative correlation of.62 was obtained between anxiety and self-esteem. The children in the study appeared to have a well-developed, reality-based comprehension of the divorce, even though they were generally sad about the divorce and hoped for a reconciliation. Meaningful results were observed when the children's responses were compared with regard to gender, age, and duration of separation. Few differences in response were noted with regard to levels of self-esteem. Anxiety, however, appeared to be related to many rather apparent differences in response. When parents' responses were compared to children's responses, a moderate variability was observed in those questions related to time periods. In the open-ended questions, there was moderate variability in response agreement between parent and child. Differences in response were also noted with regard to when the children were told about the separation and by whom.
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Wan, Yau-fun Ginny. "Family functioning after divorce-separation /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13744914.
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Morrison, Fiona. "Children, contact and domestic abuse." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15825.
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In recent years the issue of children’s contact with non-resident parents has been increasingly debated. The policy gaze has focused on contested contact when there are allegations of domestic abuse. Some commentators argue that in circumstances of domestic abuse, contact with an abusive father may not be in the ‘best interests’ of the child. To support these claims they point to evidence that domestic abuse adversely affects children, and domestic abuse often continues following separation. Children’s views of contact in circumstances of domestic abuse remain underresearched, as such their views on this issue have been missing from policy debates. The research aims to uncover how children view and experience contact with nonresident fathers when in the context of domestic abuse. A qualitative methodology was developed for the research. In-depth interviews were carried out with both children and their mothers. The findings confirm that conceptualisations of domestic abuse that focus on discrete acts or incidents of violence do not correspond with children’s and mother’s accounts of abuse. Domestic abuse was a constant in the lives of children and mothers. Children were exposed to domestic abuse before and following parental separation. The research uncovers the complex negotiations children make when family relationships are characterised by abuse. Children identified domestic abuse as a core issue when forming views about contact with their fathers. They tried to make sense of and developed their own analysis of their fathers’ abuse and strategies to cope with it. Children also highlighted a range of issues beyond domestic abuse that influenced their views about contact. The role children should have in disputes about contact in is contested. Children may be considered incompetent to form a view or their views are constructed as a product of parental manipulation. The research provides insights into children’s experiences of participating in contact disputes. It points to limitations in current Scottish legal mechanisms that are designed to take children’s views into account and questions the respect afforded to children’s participation in disputes. The thesis concludes by highlighting the theoretical, policy and practice implications that result from this research.
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Bisnaire, Lise M.-C. "Factors associated with academic achievement in children following parental separation." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/21134.
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Brennan, Carol A. (Carol Ann). "Parent Adaptive Doll Play with Children Experiencing Parental Separation/Divorce." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331649/.
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Parent Adaptive Doll Play, a technique in an early stage of development, is designed for use by parents in assisting their young children to cope with the stresses of parental separation/divorce. The effects of technique implementation by parents of three- through six-year-old children were investigated. Data was collected before and after parents received training and implemented the technique over an eight-week period. Parents completed the Child Behavior Rating Scale, Burks' Behavior Rating Scales, the Parenting Stress Index, and the Parental Attitude Scale.
Twenty-two parents, reporting marital separation through separation and/or divorce, within 18 months prior to the beginning of the study, and reporting more than 50 percent physical custody of a three- through six-year-old child qualified for participation. Twelve children were experimental subjects and ten were control subjects. To determine differences between groups, a one-way analysis of covariance was performed on each post test variable. Positive differences were calculated in several areas of child behavior by parents of subjects in the experimental group. No significant differences between groups were found in any area of child behavior. The score which most closely approached significance, however, was found in the Burks' Behavior Rating Scale area of poor anger control.
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Garmroudinezhad, Rostami Elham. "Separation anxiety in children suffering from sleep terrors or sleepwalking." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/34482.
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La relation entre la psychopathologie développementale et le sommeil, ou vice versa, est complexe (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). Davantage de recherche est nécessaire, y compris des études longitudinales populationnelles chez les enfants. Cependant, le trouble d'anxiété généralisée et le trouble d'anxiété de séparation comptent tous deux les problèmes de sommeil parmi leurs principaux symptômes chez les enfants en clinique (Kupfer, 2015; Shanahan et al., 2014). Les résultats sont toutefois mitigés et certaines perturbations du sommeil ne sont pas associées à l'anxiété dans la population non-clinique d'enfants. On sait peu de choses sur la relation entre l'anxiété de séparation et les terreurs nocturnes et le somnambulisme chez les enfants d'une population non clinique. Donc, dans ce mèmoire, je tente de démontrer la présence de liens entre l'anxiété de séparation et les terreurs nocturnes d’une part, et le somnambulisme d’autre part, dans la petite enfance ; je teste la robustesse de ces associations après avoir pris en compte l'anxiété générale chez les participants. Enfin, j’explorerai les différences entre les sexes pour ces associations. Cette recherche fait partie de l'Étude longitudinale du développement des enfants du Québec (ÉLDEQ, Canada), pilotée par l'Institut de la statistique du Québec. Dans l'échantillon initial, 2223 familles ont été incluses lorsque les enfants avaient environ cinq mois. Dans cette étude, l'anxiété de séparation et l'anxiété générale ont été mesurés chaque année entre l'âge de 1,5 et 6 ans grâce au questionnaire informatisé rempli par l'interviewer, un entretien structuré en face à face avec la mère (N = 2045; 2044). Les terreurs nocturnes ont été évaluées entre 1,5 et 6 ans et le somnambulisme entre 2,5 et 6 ans à l'aide d'un questionnaire autoadministré à la mère (N = 1840; 1849). Un score moyen à travers les temps de mesure a été calculé pour l'anxiété de séparation et l'anxiété générale alors qu’une somme a été calculée pour les terreurs nocturnes et le somnambulisme. Les associations ont été testées par des régressions hiérarchiques en trois étapes : (1) anxiété de séparation et facteurs de confusion, (2) inclusion de l'anxiété générale et (3) inclusion d'un terme d'interaction sexe * anxiété de séparation. L'une des principales conclusions de cette étude est que l'anxiété de séparation pouvait prédire à la fois les terreurs nocturnes et le somnambulisme dans la petite enfance, même après contrôle de l'anxiété générale entrée comme facteur de confusion dans les modèles. Cette dernière n'a montré aucune association avec les deux parasomnies. Les associations n’étaient pas différentes pour les garçons et les filles. Nos résultats ont montré que l'anxiété de séparation pourrait jouer un rôle dans l’apparition des terreurs nocturnes et du somnambulisme chez les jeunes enfants dans la population générale (non-clinique). Cette étude représente une étape importante dans la compréhension des liens entre les symptômes d’anxiété de séparation et le sommeil chez les enfants.The relationship between developmental psychopathology and sleep is complex (Gregory & Sadeh, 2016). More research is needed, including longitudinal population-based studies in children. However, Generalized anxiety disorder and separation anxiety disorder all list sleep problems among their core symptoms in clinical children population (Kupfer, 2015; Shanahan et al., 2014), but results are mixed and sleep disturbances may not be associated with anxiety in non-clinical population of children. Little is known the relationship between separation anxiety and night terrors and sleepwalking among children in a non-clinical population. So, in this dissertation, I explore the links between separation anxiety and night terrors on one hand, and sleepwalking on the other hand, in a non-clinical early childhood sample. This research is part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD, Canada), initiated by the Quebec Institute of Statistics. In the initial sample, 2223 families were included when children were approximately 5 months. Separation anxiety and General anxiety were measured from the ages of yearly 1.5 to 6 years through the Interviewer Completed Computerized Questionnaire, a face-to-face structured interview with the mother (N= 2045; 2044). Night terrors were assessed from 1.5 to 6 years of age, and sleepwalking from 2.5 years to 6 years, through a self-administered questionnaire completed by the mother (N= 1840; 1849). A mean score across measurement times was calculated for separation anxiety and general anxiety, and a sum for night terrors and sleepwalking. I tested the associations with three-step hierarchical regression models: (1) inclusion of separation anxiety and confounding factors as predictors, (2) inclusion of general anxiety, and (3) inclusion of an interaction term gender*separation anxiety. One of the major findings of this study is that separation anxiety predicts both night terrors and sleepwalking in early childhood, even after controlling for general anxiety. The latter showed no associations with any of the two parasomnias. Finally, these associations were not different for boys and girls. Our findings have shown that separation anxiety may play a role in night terrors and sleepwalking etiology. This study represents an important step for a better understanding of the association between separation anxiety symptoms and sleep in children in the general (non-clinical) population.
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溫有歡 and Yau-fun Ginny Wan. "Family functioning after divorce-separation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31249565.
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Ma, Sau-fong Ady. "An exploration into children's reaction and adjustment to parental separation /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325880.
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McGregor, David B. "A group approach to addressing the separation experiences of children in care." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0004/MQ45096.pdf.
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Moor, Merryl, and n/a. "Silent Violence: Australia's White Stolen Children." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070111.172012.
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This thesis makes a significant contribution to the existing knowledge on 'unmarried mothers'. Much of the literature on 'unmarried mothers' has been written by white, male, middle-class professionals who assume that unwed mothers are happy to place their babies for adoption so that they can be free to pursue other interests, meet other men and make a new life. However, after interviewing many of the mothers who gave up their babies in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s in Australia, I found this was not the case. Many of the mothers had wanted to keep their babies but were forced to relinquish them by their families and the wider society who seemed more intent on upholding nuclear family values than making available the resources needed to keep natural mothers and their babies together. My argument throughout this thesis is that given a choice - a viable economic and socially supported choice - many of the unmarried mothers, typified by those whom I interviewed, would not have parted with their babies. Most mothers interviewed, and presumably many of those in the community at large, have experienced much pain and grief as a result of the separation - a grief which is profound and lasts forever. Using Marxist feminist theories of the state and post-structural theories, my thesis highlights the perceptions and memories of birthmothers about the birthing experience and adoption as experience, process and life consequence. I also argue that the removal of white, working-class babies from their mothers compares in some small way with the removal of the indigenous 'stolen children' in the same period. The removal of Aboriginal children from their homes and cultures has been referred to by some scholars and activists as a form of cultural genocide. While the removal of babies from white, working-class, unwed mothers was different in that it had few racial implications, I argue that the system in place at the time was patriarchal and class-based and as such left the young, unwed women with no options but adoption. The thesis makes a very important and socially significant contribution to our understanding of unmarried mothers in that it presents a largely unwritten history of women. Rich in the voices of unmarried mothers, there are important conceptual, empirical and practical policy implications flowing from the research findings.
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Moor, Merryl. "Silent Violence: Australia's White Stolen Children." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365291.
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This thesis makes a significant contribution to the existing knowledge on 'unmarried mothers'. Much of the literature on 'unmarried mothers' has been written by white, male, middle-class professionals who assume that unwed mothers are happy to place their babies for adoption so that they can be free to pursue other interests, meet other men and make a new life. However, after interviewing many of the mothers who gave up their babies in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s in Australia, I found this was not the case. Many of the mothers had wanted to keep their babies but were forced to relinquish them by their families and the wider society who seemed more intent on upholding nuclear family values than making available the resources needed to keep natural mothers and their babies together. My argument throughout this thesis is that given a choice - a viable economic and socially supported choice - many of the unmarried mothers, typified by those whom I interviewed, would not have parted with their babies. Most mothers interviewed, and presumably many of those in the community at large, have experienced much pain and grief as a result of the separation - a grief which is profound and lasts forever. Using Marxist feminist theories of the state and post-structural theories, my thesis highlights the perceptions and memories of birthmothers about the birthing experience and adoption as experience, process and life consequence. I also argue that the removal of white, working-class babies from their mothers compares in some small way with the removal of the indigenous 'stolen children' in the same period. The removal of Aboriginal children from their homes and cultures has been referred to by some scholars and activists as a form of cultural genocide. While the removal of babies from white, working-class, unwed mothers was different in that it had few racial implications, I argue that the system in place at the time was patriarchal and class-based and as such left the young, unwed women with no options but adoption. The thesis makes a very important and socially significant contribution to our understanding of unmarried mothers in that it presents a largely unwritten history of women. Rich in the voices of unmarried mothers, there are important conceptual, empirical and practical policy implications flowing from the research findings.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
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Augustsson, Jenny, and Emma Nelsson. "Föräldrars separation under småbarnsfasen : en studie om BVC-sjuksköterskors uppfattningom prevention av separation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160322.
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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka BVC:s möjligheter att förebygga de separationer som sker till följd av omställningen från att vara ett par till att även bli förälder. I studien beskrivs BHV-sjuksköterskors uppfattning om prevention av separation under småbarnsfasen samt hur BHV-sjuksköterskor ser på sina förutsättningar att arbeta med föräldrars parrelation. Studien är en kvantitativ enkätstudie. Enkäten har besvarats av BHV-sjuksköterskor anställda i Region Östergötland eller privata utförare med Region Östergötland-avtal. Totalt delades 99 enkäter ut. Svarsfrekvensen var 83 %. Resultatet visar att BHVsjuksköterskor uppfattar att det är möjligt att förebygga separation hos föräldrar i småbarnsfasen, att brister sällan framkommer i föräldrars parrelation på BVC och att många BHV-sjuksköterskor inte upplever att de har förutsättningar att arbeta med frågan. Slutsatsen är att BVC är i behov av ett förtydligat uppdrag om de ska arbeta med föräldrars parrelation liksom få rätt förutsättningar att utföra ett sådant uppdrag.The purpose of this study is to examine the possibilities for Swedish Child Healthcare Centers to prevent parents separating as a consequence of transitioning from being a couple to having a child and becoming parents. The current study describes Child Health Care nurses’ opinions on preventing parents with small children from separating, as well as these nurses’ opinions on their possibilities to work with the parents on their relationships. The study is a quantitative questionnaire study answered by Child Health Care nurses working in public healthcare in Region Östergötland or in private facilities contracted by Region Östergötland. 99 questionnaires were handed out in total, and the answer frequency was 83 %. The results show that Child Health Care nurses feel it is possible for them to prevent parents with small children from separating, that flaws in the parents’ relationships are rarely detected at the Child Health Care Centers, and that many Child Health Care nurses don’t feel they have any possibilities to work on this issue. The conclusion is that Child Health Care Centers are in need of a clear description of their task, and whether or not this includes working with parents’ relationships; and if it does, how the centers can attain the necessary prerequisites for carrying out this task.
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Partamian, Catherine M. "The impact of child adjustment to preschool on maternal separation anxiety." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3229.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 105. Thesis director: Carol J. Erdwins. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 28, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-104). Also issued in print.
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Williams, Lucy Morley. "An exploration of the association between attachment status and the development of a theory of mind in the pre-school years." Thesis, Roehampton University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325672.
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Rae-Espinoza, Heather. "Devoted abandonment the children left behind by parental emigration in Ecuador /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3232854.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 4, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 498-526).
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Ma, Sau-fong Ady, and 馬秀芳. "An exploration into children's reaction and adjustment to parental separation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247672.
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Smyth, Bruce, and bruce smyth@aifs gov au. "Post-separation patterns of parenting in Australia who opts for which patterns and why?" Swinburne University of Technology. Department of Sociology, 2005. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060214.110816.
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Despite widespread interest in patterns of parenting after separation in Australia, the
gaps in our knowledge remain large and fundamental. Most studies, including those
overseas, have taken a quantitative tack, measuring the frequency and overall amount of
face-to-face contact between children and non-resident parents (mostly fathers). But
obviously there is more to parent�child contact than just time. The nature and quality of
the interaction are also important � perhaps even more so.
Recently there has been a push towards recognising and describing both qualitative
and quantitative differences in the many ways that parental sharing of time with
children can occur after divorce. This thesis attempts to identify and explore some of
these differences by comparing five different patterns of care: (i) 50/50 shared care,
(ii) little or no contact, (iii) holiday-only contact, (iv) daytime-only contact, and (v)
�standard� contact (thought to occur every-other-weekend and half of each school
holidays). A representative snapshot of parent�child contact schedules after separation
is presented to provide some of the detail of arrangements within this typology.
Two (complementary) types of data are used: qualitative data from a series of focus
groups with separated parents, and quantitative data from three large representative
samples of separated/divorced parents in Australia. Joining the dots between the
various pieces of data, there is much to suggest that family dynamics in tandem with
demographic factors temper the form that parent�child contact takes, with different
combinations of factors clearly linked to qualitatively different patterns of postseparation
parenting.
While separating parents need to be encouraged to think more laterally about what
arrangements might work best for their children and themselves, the data presented
suggest that some parents in Australia are already being very creative and there is
much diversity of arrangements. The central argument running through this
dissertation is that arrangements that allow children to experience fluid, meaningful
time with each parent are critical for children�s and parents� wellbeing.
The ideas and data presented here � especially some of the more creative timesharing
schedules developed by parents � are likely to be a useful resource for separated
parents, and the family law professionals they approach for assistance, to reflect on
when developing or refining parenting arrangements after divorce.
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Akbar, Leila, and Annelie Svärdh. "Familjerättssekreterarnas upplevelser av barns situation i samband med vårdnads-, boende- och umgängesärenden : En kvalitativ studie." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-20349.
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Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur familjerättsekreterarna upplever barns situation i samband med deras uppdrag med vårdnads-, boende- och umgängesärenden. Frågeställningarna var; Hur definierar familjerättssekreterarna sitt uppdrag vid vårdnads-, boende- och umgängesärenden vid föräldrars separation? Vilka instrument/verktyg använder familjerättssekreterarna för att ta reda på barns situation i samband med vårdnads-, boende- och umgängesärenden vid föräldrars separation? Hur upplever familjerättssekreterarna att barns fysiska och psykiska hälsa samt relation till föräldrarna påverkas i samband med föräldrarnas separation? Studien utfördes med en kvalitativ forskningsmetod där undersökningen innefattade åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer med familjerättssekreterare. I vår studie har vi utgått från systemteorin och gräsrotsbyråkratin. Detta för att familjerättssekreterarna har myndighetsutövning och att de vid utredningsärenden tittar på hur familjemedlemmarna samspelar med varandra. Resultatet tolkades utifrån den fenomenologiska ansatsen som visade att det fanns väsentliga skillnader i hur familjerättssekreterare tolkade vad som ingick i deras uppdrag. Familjerättssekreterarnas främsta instrument vid ärendehanteringar visade sig vara samtal. Ett annat viktigt resultat var att alla familjerättssekreterare ansåg att barns hälsa påverkades av sina föräldrars separation samt att deras relation till föräldrarna också påverkades både negativt och positivt, på kort och långt sikt.The purpose of this study was to examine how family law secretaries experience the situations of the children in accordance with their assignments in the custody, residence and contact cases. These questions were asked: What instruments/tools are used to determine the children’s situation in the custody, residence and contact cases during the parental separation? How do family law secretaries define their role in custody, residence and contact cases at the parents’ separation? This study was conducted by using a qualitative research method which included eight semi-structured interviews with family law secretaries. As a basis for our study we have used the systems theory and street-level bureaucracy. This is because the family law secretaries have authority and in the case investigations they observe how the family members interact with each other. The results were interpreted by the phenomenological approach, which showed that there were significant differences in how family law secretaries interpreted what was included in their assignment. The family law secretaries’ foremost instrument during case handling was shown to be conversation. Another important result was that all family law secretaries felt that the childrens health was affected by their parents’ separation and that the childrens relationship to their parents was also affected, both negatively and positively in the short and long term.
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Nazarian, Gaiane. "SEPARATION DUE TO DEPORTATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ECONOMIC AFFECT ON CHILDREN OF DEPORTED PARENTS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/48.
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This study looked at the affects of separation due to deportation of a parent(s) on children with US citizenship status who were left behind in the care of one remaining parent, or family members, or were placed in the foster care system. It addressed psychological, emotional, and economic hardships suffered by children in face of being separated from their families and becoming vulnerable to emotionally triggered dysfunctional behavior, abuse, neglect, and poverty. Qualitative methods were used for this research as it aimed to examine the content and depth of the experience.
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Aveni, Christina Marie. "The effects of biblioplay on anxiety related to first preschool experiences." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12042009-020035/.
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Aatela, Ann. "Tvillingskap, identitetsutveckling och delad eller gemensam skolgång. : - Resonemang bland föräldrar, lärare och tvillingar." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Child and Youth Studies, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37016.
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Sadowski, Christina. "The lived experience of security and contentment for latency aged children in shared care, post-separation : a descriptive phenomenological enquiry." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2012. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164893.
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"As a result of complex social, economic and legislative factors, the number of children in shared time arrangements (in which children spend equal, or near-equal time, with both parents post-separation) has risen steadily and incrementally in Australia and internationally. Despite the increasing numbers of children in this arrangement, conceptualisations of and discussions about shared care remain largely devoid of children's perspectives about their experiences. As a result, little is known about how children experience this way of living. This study used a descriptive phenomenological approach to explore latency aged (aged 8-12) children's lived experience of security and contentment, and their absence, in a shared care time arrangement." "Interviews were conducted with sixteen children across a diversity of living arrangements (levels of parental cooperation and conflict; self-selected and Court-ordered; day-to-day patterns) who had current or recent experience living in shared care. From this pool of interviews, the eight richest and detailed protocols were selected for descriptive phenomenological analysis. Through a process of detailed analytic exploration of these eight individual descriptions of phenomena under investigation (security and contentment in shared care; the absence of security and contentment in shared care), the core constituents of each phenomenon were discerned. From these, General Structures representing the essence, or the invariants common to all experiences under investigation, were identified. This thesis introduces a child-generated phenomenology of security and contentment, and their absence, in shared care. This phenomenology is based on the careful analysis of children's pre-reflective narrative descriptions, describing core aspects of this arrangement that contribute to their felt security and contentment, and core aspects that compromise it. Ultimately, this thesis presents the child's lived experience of feeling securely shared by parents in the context of a shared time living arrangement. "Doctor of Philosophy
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Draper, John E. "The relationship between adolescent psychological separation processes and interpersonal style /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9809669.
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Chan, Chor-yin Miranda. "The impact of separation from the batterer : quality of parenting and children's well-being /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22331694.
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Malm, Michelle, and Clara Nylund. "Föräldraseparationers påverkan på de uppvuxna barnens romantiska relationer." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-69576.
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Separationer har blivit alltmer vanligt i dagens samhälle i Sverige. Idag separerar drygthälften av alla par, vilket kan medföra flera olika typer av konsekvenser för barnen i familjen.Vad tidigare forskning har funnit är att barnens mentala hälsa påverkas negativt men ocksåvissa attitydförändringar till romantiska relationer överlag. Syftet med denna studie var attundersöka om dessa barns framtida romantiska relationer är något som påverkades i och meden föräldraseparation. Även om ålder vid separationen kunde påverka relationerna. Det varnittiofyra studenter vid ett medelstort universitet i Sverige som slumpmässigt valdes ut för attundersökas genom en enkätundersökning. Romantiska relationer definierades genom fyraolika index: trygg; otrygg-undvikande; otrygg-ambivalent; otrygg-desorganiserad. Resultatetvisade att vilken ålder man var vid separationen inte hade någon påverkan på deras framtidaromantiska relationer. Däremot kunde en föräldraseparation till viss del påverka studentersromantiska relationer. Det framkom att en föräldraseparation förutsåg en otryggdesorganiseradanknytning. Däremot sågs ingen signifikant skillnad för resterande tre index. Som slutsats är det inte separationen i sig som påverkar studenternas framtida romantiskarelationer.Separations have become more common in the society of Sweden. Today, about half of the couples separates, which can cause several types of consequences for the children in the family. What previous research has found is that children’s mental health was adversely affected by a separation. Changes in children’s attitudes towards romantic relationships was discovered as well. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether these children’s future romantic relationship are affected by parental separation. How old the children were by the separations were also included in the study. Ninety-four students at a medium-sized university in Sweden were randomly selected to be examined through a survey. Romantic relationship was defined by four different categories: secure; fearful; preoccupied; dismissed. Results showed that how old children were at the parental separation did not affect their future romantic relationships. However, a parental separation could partly affect a student’s romantic relationship. It was found that a parental separation predicted higher levels in the dismissed category. On the contrary, there were no significant differences for the remaining three categories. In conclusion, it is not the separation itself that affects students’ future romantic relationships.
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Wilson, Jan McKinley. "'You took our children' aboriginal autobiographical narratives of separation in New South Wales, 1977-1997 /." Online version, 2001. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23805.
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Carlson, Lyndsey Louise. "Separation and reunification of Looked after Children with their birth families in the United Kingdom." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2017. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/4440/.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide an understanding of separation and reunification of looked after children with their birth families following a period of local authority care. Children are taken into care for a variety of reasons and at different rates across the country. In March 2016, there were 70,440 looked after children in England which represents 60 children per 10,000 of the population. As the majority of looked after children are placed in foster care they are often separated from their birth families, including siblings. By placing children in care local authorities aim to protect children from further harm and the goal is often reunification with families wherever possible. However, evidence from reunification studies suggests that this may be the least successful permanence option. A review of the literature regarding reunification of looked after children with their birth families in the UK was conducted and eight articles were identified, critically appraised and synthesised. Two analytic themes centred on lack of guidance and risks associated with return. The majority of looked after children who returned home experienced failed returns and re-entered local authority care. This review highlighted the lack of research exploring children’s perspectives on their experience of being in care. In response to this gap in the literature, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to explore the experience of looked after children placed in care who had siblings who remained in the family home. This analysis resulted in the following themes: self-concept, family dynamics and survival strategies. These findings are important for understanding the impact of separation on individuals and their relationships with others. The themes are considered in relation to psychological theory, implications and directions for future research are discussed. A reflective commentary described the experience of completing this thesis with emphasis on attachment theory.
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Dotson, Hilary. "Homeless Women in the Orlando Shelter System: A Comparison of Single Women, Families, and Women Separated from the Children." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3227.
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Homeless women and families are among the most disenfranchised groups in society. Further, because of their homelessness and associated problems, many homeless women become separated from their children. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects on predictors of entering a shelter with or without children (shelter status) and whether or not one is separated from one or more children (child separation status) on various special need predictors. A second objective was to determine the relationship between shelter status and child separation and to understand the unique experiences of homeless women who are separated from their children. These objectives were achieved via thematic analysis, quantitative methods and qualitative methods. Results suggest that shelter status significantly related to mental illness, drug abuse and domestic violence, but child separation status only significantly relates to drug abuse. The qualitative findings examined the origins of homelessness, child separation and the women's desires to be reunited with their children. Suggestions for further research and program changes are included.M.A.
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Marsh, Greg (Gregory Gene). "The Effects of Parental Divorce and Conflict on Adolescent Separation-Individuation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278026/.
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The influence of parental marital status and parental conflict on the separation-individuation process of college students was investigated in the present study. Past studies have suggested that parental divorce and parental conflict accelerate separation. However, no studies have measured more than one dimension of separation-individuation. In this study the process of separation-individuation was operationalized as involving three dimensions: psychological separation from parents (Psychological Separation Inventory); emotional attachments to parents and peers (Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment); and the development of an identity (Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status). The sample consisted of 120 male and 120 female undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 22, one-half with parents who were married and one-half with parents who had divorced in the last five years. Subjects completed self-report measures of parental conflict, psychological separation, attachment to parents and to peers, and identity status. Predictions that parental conflict would affect students in intact families differently than their peers with divorced parents were not supported. Instead, parental divorce and conflict were found to have different effects on the components of the separation-individuation process. Subjects reporting higher parental conflict levels described more independent functioning, more negative feelings toward parents, less attachment to parents and to peers, and greater exploration of identity-related issues in comparison to those reporting low levels of conflict. Subjects with parents who had recently divorced reported lower attachment to parents, and greater identity exploration and reluctance to commit to an identity than subjects from intact families. Males reported greater independence from and less attachment to parents, and had committed to an identity without exploration less often than females. Results suggest that parental divorce and conflict may influence adolescent development in different ways. Exploratory analyses suggested that measures of conflict style are more highly related to indices of separation-individuation than measures of the amount of parental conflict. Theoretical and methodological issues are discussed.
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Wolfe, Nancy L. "Application of the relational model of therapy in cross cultural counseling with children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/511.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the origins of the Multicultural Relational Model of therapy and demonstrate the application of this model in the clinical setting. Subjects were two ethnic minority children, a Hispanic boy, age nine, and a mixed-race boy, age 10, who was adopted by an African American family.
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Moore, Karla. "Phantom grief the grief of siblings separated by adoption /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1609286761&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dias, Nadia. "Best Interests Of The Child Principle In The Context Of Parent Separation Or Divorce : As Conceptualised By The Community." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1463.
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Best interests of the child (BIC) is a construct that is central to legal decisions in several areas including parenting matters in the Family Courts, guardianship, child-protection, and adoption. Despite the centrality of the construct, BIC has not been operationalised (Thomson & Molloy, 2001) and there is little agreement about what is considered best for children within social service and legal communities (Banach, 1998). Given that one of the aims of law is to reflect public sentiment (Green, 1996), the current study explored the general public’s conceptualisation of BIC. More specifically, I sought to determine what community members think the term “best interests” means and what factors they believe need to be considered when determining BIC? A qualitative approach was used and data were collected through semi-structured interviews.
Participants (n= 19) defined BIC as parents effectively meeting the developmental needs of children to produce healthy young adults, both physiologically and psychologically. A complex hierarchical model was generated from participant responses that outlined the primary developmental needs of children and sets of conditions and parenting practices that elicit these. Despite the indeterminate nature and vagueness of the BIC standard, the findings from the current study suggest that current legislative practices do reflect public sentiment. Results of this research represented an important step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the BIC concept and endorse existing practices of forensic evaluators. Moreover, embedding gathered information in the context of child development and parenting literature appears essential to the utility of forensic psychological assessments. Finally, the model generated highlights the complexity of BIC and the need for practitioners to be aware of interactions that exist between child development and contexts of the home, community, culture and society.
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Bubier, Jennifer L. "Co-occurrence of Oppositional Defiant Disorder with Generalized and Separation Anxiety Disorders Among Inner-city Children." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/48936.
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There is a paucity of research that has examined co-occurring oppositional defiant disorder and generalized anxiety disorder (ODD+GAD) symptoms and oppositional defiant disorder and separation anxiety disorder (ODD+SAD) symptoms among children. To address this gap, I investigated multiple explanations for the co-occurrence of ODD+GAD and ODD+SAD. Specifically, I investigated whether (a) GAD symptoms prospectively predicted ODD symptoms and SAD symptoms prospectively predicted ODD symptoms (Explanation 1), (b) ODD symptoms prospectively predicted GAD symptoms and ODD symptoms prospectively predicted SAD symptoms (Explanation 2), and (c) shared risk processes accounted for the co-occurrence of ODD+GAD and ODD+SAD (Explanation 3). Participants were an ethnic minority, inner-city sample of first through fourth grade children (N = 88, 51% male) and their primary caregivers. I used data collected at the baseline and 1-year follow-up assessments of the Child Health and Behavior Study, a longitudinal survey of families residing in North Philadelphia. Findings provided support for Explanation 2 and Explanation 3 in the development of co-occurring ODD+GAD symptoms and support for Explanation 3 in the development of co-occurring ODD+SAD symptoms. This study contributes to the extant literature by providing the first empirical examination of these multiple explanations in an ethnic minority, inner city sample of children.
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Jogefält, Sofia, and Sandra Johansson. ""Whatever works" : en fokusgruppsstudie om föräldraroller efter separation." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4896.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka socialtjänstens perspektiv på hur föräldrar förändrar sina roller för att på bästa sätt kunna ta sitt föräldraansvar efter en separation, speciellt om en förälder brister i sin omsorg kring barnet och hur socialtjänsten ser på sin roll i den processen. Vi har genomfört tre fokusgruppsintervjuer; en barnutredningsgrupp och två grupper från familjerätten. Alla enheter vi besökte ligger i Stockholm. Respondenterna har i fokusgrupperna fått reflektera och diskutera sina uppfattningar kring temana föräldraansvar, oro kring den andre förälderns förmåga, roller i och kring familjen samt socialtjänstens roll. Vårt resultat har analyserats med hjälp av rollteorin och mentaliseringsbegreppet. Resultatet visade att i omskapandet av föräldrarollerna efter separation är samarbete samt att minimera konflikter mellan föräldrar grundläggande. I de fall socialtjänsten är i kontakt med föräldrarna så har även de en roll i föräldraansvaret, de strävar efter att vägleda föräldrarna mot ett fullgott ansvarstagande och se till att föräldrarna behåller barnperspektivet med barnets behov i fokus. Om en förälder har förmågan att mentalisera en annan människas situation och ser dennes behov så underlättar det omskapandet av föräldrarollen efter separation precis som det vidare underlättar om föräldrar har en fungerande kommunikation mellan varandra. Den roll som är mest komplex enligt oss är den som en orolig förälder har kring barnets vistelse hos den andra föräldern. Oavsett hur relationen till den andre är så ligger det i bådas ansvar att alltid säkerställa att barnet har det bra och inte far illa.The purpose of this paper is to examine the perspective of the Swedish social services with regard to how parents change their roles in order to best take parental responsibility following separation. We particularly examine the perspective of the social services with regard to cases in which a parent has shortcomings in his or her care of the child and how the social services view their own role in this process. We conducted three focus group interviews: one involving a child protection investigation group and two involving family law groups. All of the units visited were in Stockholm, Sweden. The respondents in the focus groups were asked to reflect and discuss their views on the themes of parental responsibility, concern about the other parent’s capacity, roles in and involving the family, and the role of the social services. Our results were analysed using role theory and the concept of mentalisation. The results showed that in changing parental roles following separation, cooperation and minimising conflict between parents is fundamental. In cases in which the social services have contact with the parents, they too have a role in parental responsibility since they endeavour to guide the parents towards taking an adequate level of responsibility and ensure that the parents maintain a children’s perspective in which the needs of the child are in focus. If a parent has the ability to mentalise another person’s situation and see his or her needs, the changing of the parental role following separation is facilitated. Likewise, it also is beneficial if parents are able to communicate with each other. The role that is most complex, in our view, is that of a concerned parent with regard to the child staying with the other parent. Regardless of the nature of their relationship, it is the responsibility of both parents to always ensure that the child receives adequate care and does not come to harm.
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Hobdy, Juli. "The Role of Individuation Processes in the Launching of Children into Adulthood." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278703/.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which levels of individuation and separation in adulthood would predict adjustment to the empty nest transition. Two-hundred and twenty-seven adults (M age = 48) who had experienced the empty nest within the last year completed a battery of scales assessing individuation from family of origin, spouse, and children as well as measures of adjustment, role strain, coping, and sex role attitudes. MANOVAS and hierarchical regression analyses suggested that levels of individuation from one's family of origin, spouse, and children differentially affect one's adjustment to, and coping with, the experience of launching of the youngest child from the home. Empty nest parents who are less differentiated from their own parents, from their spouses, and from their children reported a more negative impact of the empty nest in terms of more overall stress and role strain, more negative mood, and less life satisfaction than did empty nest parents who were more differentiated with regard to parents, spouse, and children. Results regarding the impact of individuation on empty nest adjustment regarding sex role attitudes were less clear cut, and may reflect cohort differences in work role opportunities for women and a parallel redefinition of the work role/parent role dichotomy for men. The data also suggest that women and men experience the empty nest transition differently, with women experiencing more distress and negative mood, supporting the notion that women, who define themselves in a context of relationship may experience more distress at a time when significant relationships are in flux. However, additional results which indicated significantly more proactive and adaptive coping strategies for women as compared to men suggest that women can meet the demands of the new definitions of themselves and their relationships in a relatively positive and adaptive way. The results suggest that present as well as past experiences of separation and individuation impact how one experiences and copes with the empty nest. The findings lend support to the importance of early, successful individuation experiences as possible precursors of how successfully individuals negotiate other developmental experiences involving separation and loss.
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Farndale, Holly. "The effects of parental divorce/separation and perceived poor parental conflict resolution on children later in life /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09HS/09hsf235.pdf.
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Kienhuis, Mandy Lee, and mandyk@vicparenting com au. "Youth adjustment to parental separation: the development and evaluation of an empirically-based parenting intervention for separated families with adolescent children." RMIT University. Health Sciences, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070202.124553.
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The focus of this thesis is the evaluation of three forms of an empirically-based cognitive-behavioural parenting program for separated families with adolescent children. However, to initially determine the existence of lasting affects of parental separation (occurring during childhood and adolescence), an exploratory study used a sample of 272 young adults (aged between 18 and 30 years) from intact families and 78 young adults from separated families. This study investigated the impact of parental marital status on young adult psychological adjustment, interpersonal relationships, attitudes toward divorce, and interpersonal behaviour problems. Results indicated that the effects of parental separation on father-child relationships persist into adulthood for men and women. Further, young women from separated families also reported more accepting attitudes toward divorce, and earlier age at entering into de facto or marital relationships. Young men reported more di fficulties in their relationships with mothers, moving out of the family home at a younger age, and higher levels of verbal attack behaviours in romantic relationships compared to their peers from intact families. Importantly, results suggested that both young children and adolescents experience adverse consequences of parental separation, albeit in different adjustment domains. Given these results, the need for intervention was established. While considerable efforts have gone into the development of intervention programs for young children from separated families, few efforts have focused on adolescents whose parents have separated. To redress this situation, this thesis describes the development and evaluation of three forms of delivery of a parenting program for separated families with adolescent children - group, individual, and telephone-assisted. Study 2 investigated the efficacy and acceptability of the Youth Adjustment to Parental Separation (YAPS) program - an empirically-based group cognitive-beha vioural parenting program for separated families with adolescent children. Overall, the results from this initial trial with four mothers suggested that the program was implemented as planned and that the program was acceptable to mothers. Further, the program lead to improvements in mothers' perceptions of adolescent symptomatology and their own symptomatology. However, there was limited or inconsistent change in mothers' perceptions of family relationships, the coparenting relationship, and their parenting practises, and in adolescents' perceptions of interparental conflict, coping, negative separation-related events, and problematic beliefs. Furthermore, adolescents reported deterioration in family communication and their own symptomatology. Based on the results of Study 2 and the limitations identified, recommendations were made regarding improvements to the YAPS program and to the procedures used to evaluate program effectiveness. According to the recommendations made in Study 2, the efficacy and acceptability of the YAPS program delivered as a therapist-administered individual program was evaluated with six families in Study 3. Results indicated that the program is acceptable to mothers, and that it leads to improvements in adolescent adjustment, parent adjustment, mother-adolescent relationships, father-contact, adolescent exposure to interparental conflict and other negative-separation-related events, and mothers' perceptions of family relationships. Less consistent changes were observed for adolescent ratings of family relationships, and the father-adolescent relationship, however improvements in the father-adolescent relationship were associated with increased levels of f ather-contact. Consistent improvements in adolescents' coping and their appraisal of parental separation were not observed. However, there appeared to be a relationship between parental utilisation of coping strategies and adolescent coping, suggesting that promoting adolescent coping indirectly through parental modelling and parental encouragement is an appropriate intervention strategy. Study 4 evaluated the efficacy and acceptability of the YAPS program delivered as a telephone-assisted program. Results indicated that the program is acceptable to mothers, and that it improves adolescent perceptions of family communication, their own coping, and their relationship with their father. However, mothers' ratings of their own and their child's adjustment, and adolescent ratings of their own adjustment did not change. Further, expected improvements in mothers' parenting practises, the mother-adolescent relationship, separation-related negative-events, separation-related beliefs, and the coparenting relationship were not observed. Overall, improvements observed in the evaluation of the minimal-contact, telephone-assisted YAPS program (Study 4) were considerably less than those observed in the evaluation of the individual therapist-assisted, face-to-face program (Study 3). Future evaluations of the YAPS program need to address the limitations of the current series of studies, particularly, comparison to a wait-list control group is required so that threats to internal validity can be minimised.
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Stent, Wade Alexander. "The adaptation of the family system to separation and reunion : an exploratory study of military families." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Child and Family Psychology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10094.
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Extended periods of parent-child separation is a stressor that some families face due to vocational factors, immigration, incarceration and other interruptions in family living arrangements. Research suggests that these families are at increased risk for child behavioral and academic difficulties, mental health issues, and other psycho-social challenges. Within military families, extended periods of separation are relatively common, but are also compounded by additional risks that accompany a military deployment. The present study employed a cross-sectional mixed-methods research design to examine adaptations that occurred across the deployment cycle in a sample of 28 military couples (with at least one child), who had recently experienced a deployment. Quantitative analyses showed that the military parents found the post deployment period more challenging than the pre deployment period, while the home parents rated the deployment period as the most challenging. Additionally, a number of interesting associations were found; for example, increased military risk during deployment was linked with higher relationship satisfaction and reduced mental health challenges after deployment. Qualitative analyses supported these interesting findings and provided examples of common resilience factors across these families along with additional indicators of how these military families adapted to separation and reunion. Results are discussed in regards to how they align with family systems theory and previous research in the area.
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Gearon, Alinka. "'Child trafficking' : experiences of separated children on the move." Thesis, University of Bath, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690732.
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‘Child trafficking’ as a phenomenon requiring a policy and practice response has, in recent years gathered considerable pace. ‘Child trafficking’ is a crosscutting social issue, relevant to policy areas of child protection, child migration, criminal justice, immigration, social policy and human rights. This thesis explores children’s own accounts and lived experiences of ‘child trafficking’, addressing a notable gap in hearing from children directly. The thesis critically engages with the social construction of the ‘trafficked child’ examining how contemporary concepts of childhood shape and inform ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice. How ‘child trafficking’ policy has been constructed politically is examined, in shaping how ‘child trafficking’ is defined in practice. The implications for children experiencing trafficking of a system built on current assumptions about childhood and ‘child trafficking’ are considered. The study explores how children’s experiences of their childhood and ‘child trafficking’ challenge many assumptions underpinning policy and practice. The findings reveal a disjuncture between immigration-driven and prosecution focused ‘child trafficking’ practice and children requiring a welfare and individualised response to their needs. Children needed practitioners to listen to them, believe them and take action upon child protection concerns. A conclusion is drawn that the way in which ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice in England is presently constructed, and experienced, appears not to reflect the lived ‘realties’ of young people in this study. A new approach to ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice is recommended underpinned by a conceptual shift in how we perceive childhood and adolescence. Intended audiences of this study include policy-makers and front-line practitioners including social workers, the police, immigration officers and other services. This qualitative study contributes in developing methods with a hard to access population addressing a difficult subject area, promoting children and young people’s participation in research.
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Ho, Wan-sing, and 何雲星. "Will separation of the new-arrival immigrant children at primary schools from their local counterparts solve their adaptationproblems?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31959404.
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Cuddy, Cara Lynne. "The relationship between early separation and abuse experiences and later functioning among children in residential and day treatment." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057077578.
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Johnsson, Catharina. "Adopterade barn i förskolan : En undersökning om hur förskolepersonal tänker om adopterade barns sociala utveckling." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Child and Youth Studies, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-38374.
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Sundelin, Camilla, and Charlotta Persson. "Barn i familjehem : familjehemsföräldrars och socialsekreterares erfarenheter." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Education, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-550.
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Syftet med vår uppsats var att vi ville, genom intervjuer med familjehemsföräldrar och socialsekreterare, få kunskap om och djupare förståelse för små barn som lever i familjehem. Våra frågeställningar blev därmed: Vilka erfarenheter har familjehemsföräldrar/socialsekreterare av små barn som placeras? Vid ett omhändertagande, hur kan man bibehålla relationen mellan barn och biologiska föräldrar och vilka möjligheter har barn att knyta an till familjehemsföräldrar? Hur skiljer sig en placering som är frivillig från en tvångsplacering? Vilka erfarenheter har familjehemsföräldrar/socialsekreterare angående barns återförening till biologiska föräldrar? Resultatet från intervjuerna visade på att såväl familjehemsföräldrar som socialsekreterare upplever svårigheter vid placering av små barn och att man bäst bevarar relationen mellan biologiska föräldrar och barn genom kontinuerliga umgängen. Familjehemsföräldrar har inte upplevt några svårigheter för barnet att knyta an till dem och de har skilda erfarenheter av vilken form av placering som är mest gynnsam för barnet. Både familjehemsföräldrar och socialsekreterare framför att målet är att barnet ska återförenas med ursprungsfamiljen, men de kan se svårigheter när barnet känner tillhörighet i familjehemmet.
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Chan, Chor-yin Miranda, and 陳楚燕. "The impact of separation from the batterer: quality of parenting and children's well-being." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31250828.
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Persson, Carina. "Skolbarns hälsa och hälsofrämjande arbete i samband med föräldrars separation : en kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9184.
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Bakgrund: Skilsmässor är vanligt förekommande och barns upplevelser av föräldrarnas separation handlar ofta om att de känner sig stressade och förvirrade. Tidigare studier visar, att skilsmässan medförde stora förändringar för barnen. Påfrestningar i familjesituationen efter skilsmässan påverkade barnens känslor, vilket ofta yttrade sig i en sorg efter förlusten av att inte vara en hel familj längre. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva skolsköterskans erfarenheter av skolbarns hälsa och hälsofrämjande arbete i samband med föräldrars separation. Metod: Metoden som användes var en intervjustudie med kvalitativ ansats. Som analys metod användes innehållsanalys av Graneheim och Lundman (2004). Resultat: Vid analysen av intervjumaterialet framkom mest likheter men även skillnader i skolsköterskornas erfarenheter, vilket resulterade i tre huvudkategorier med tillhörande underkategorier. De huvudkategorier som framkom var Att uppmärksamma beteendeförändringar; Att främja hälsan genom personligt stöd samt Att främja hälsan genom samverkande stöd. Slutsats: Ur ett helhetsperspektiv upplevde de flesta skolsköterskor att skolbarnens hälsa i samband med föräldrars separation var bra och att skolsköterskorna var nöjda med det hälsofrämjande arbetet kring detta.Background: Divorce is common in today’s´ society, and children’s´ experience of parental separation is often that they feel stressed and confused. Previous studies show that the divorce resulted in major changes for the children and that the pressure in the family situation after divorce affects children's feelings. The children in these studies often spoke of the grief after the loss of not being a family anymore. Aim: The purpose of this study is to describe school nurse experiences of school children's health and health promotion in the context of parental separation. Method: The methods used were an interview study with a qualitative approach and Granheim and Lundman´s (2004) content analysis method. Results: The analysis of the result of the interviews showed many similarities but also differences in the school nurses' experiences, which resulted in three major categories with associated subcategories. The main categories that emerged were Paying attention to behavioral changes; Promoting health through personal support and Promoting health through collaborative support. Conclusion: From an overall perspective a majority of school nurses that participated experienced that school children's health in the context of parental separation was satisfactory. The school nurses also stated that they were satisfied with the health promotion work around children of divorced parents.
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Ho, Wan-sing. "Will separation of the new-arrival immigrant children at primary schools from their local counterparts solve their adaptation problems?" Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18887417.
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Espinoza, Rosalba, and Sarah Lopez Ramirez. "The attachment of children in foster care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2115.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the association between foster care children and the behaviors they exhibit particularly in attachment outcomes. The study was also an informative tool that addressed the impact of children with attachment issues currently in the foster care system. Examining the relationship between the two variables may be able to help parents and their children, by providing future resources necessary to both parties in case separation and loss occurs.
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Takahashi, Fumiko. "Integration and separation of immigrants in Japan : teachers' orientations to identity and culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:53b34de4-6d8c-4079-82ba-857bdaf0e6f8.
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International Social Survey Programme 2003 found that about 90% of the people in Japan favour the idea of maintaining the ethnic minorities' culture, rather than their adaptation to the dominant majority's culture. It is outstandingly high percentage, compared internationally. The result is consistent with the fact that multicultural coexistence ("Tabunka kyosei") policy is welcomed in many local governments to support the immigrants. However, it contradicts to some academics' argument that Japan puts assimilative pressure to ethnic minorities. Therefore, this thesis analyses why the idea of maintaining the ethnic minorities' culture enjoys such outstanding support in Japan. The mixed method approach of quantitative and qualitative study was used to solve this puzzle. International comparison based on the statistical analysis of national identity and attitude toward the ethnic minorities' culture revealed that (i) about 80% of the Japanese people have ethnic conceptualization of national identity, which is exceptionally high percentage than other countries, and (ii) the vast majority of both the people with ethnic and civic national identity favour the idea of maintaining the ethnic minorities' culture. Therefore, the qualitative analysis of interview data with schoolteachers of the immigrants' children were conducted to examine why, of which aspect and to what extent teachers expect the immigrants' children to maintain their ethnic identity and distinct culture, and expect them to adapt themselves to the dominant Japanese culture. It was found out that it is expected for the immigrants' children to maintain their ethnic minority identity and traditional culture in private, and to adapt themselves to group oriented and rule-based Japanese culture in public. However, such group orientated and rule-based culture is not regarded as "culture", but simply as "rules" to give an order to ethnic and cultural diversity. The findings of this thesis imply that multicultural coexistence is a new form of cultural nationalism in Japan ("tertiary nationalism"), meaning a nationalism which (i) has been brought about by confronting the growing ethnic and cultural diversity within a nation, particularly after '90s in Japan, and (ii) tries to preserve its rule-based culture and to spread it to the ethnic minorities by taking off its label of "culture", (iii) though not incorporating them to a member of a nation, but (iv) expecting them to maintain their ethnic identity and traditional culture in private.