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Finding safe homes : a quantitative analysis of child wellbeing across placement qptions

Creator:: Buerger, Christopher M.
Abstract:: This paper will examine the outcomes in child well-being across placement options for children who have experienced child abuse and/or child neglect. Specifically, this paper will compare the relative success of children placed with kin relatives versus those placed wit non-kin adoptive parents. Success is determined by a variety of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

An examination of kin and nonkin foster parents’ experiences

Creator:: De Costa, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Loretta)
Abstract:: The growth of foster care, particularly kin foster care has greatly outpaced our knowledge. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study was to develop a more informed understanding of foster family functioning from the perspective of foster parents. This study examined the experiences of 9 kin and 12 nonkin foster...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Harvard Law Review (1999), “Formal kinship” care refers to situations in which a child has been removed

"No pain, no fear, no regrets": views of a good death

Creator:: Amberwood, Lee J.
Abstract:: Substantial research has shown deficits in the quality of end-of-life care in the U.S. In response to evidence of these deficits, efforts have been made to improve quality of end-of-life care. One approach has been to ask the question, "What is a good death?" Data on views of a good...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approach of excellent physical, psychological and spiritual care improves the quality of life among those

Relationships among health and demographic characteristics, latitude of choice, and elderly hospitalized patient adjustment

Creator:: Boehne, Rebecca E.
Abstract:: Adaptation to role transitions can have various outcomes. Health and demographic characteristics as well as environmental control have been shown to affect the transition to the role of patient. The acutely ill elderly's adaptation to the role of hospitalized patient has not been measured from the elderly patient's perspective. This...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: comprise 13 percent of the population but consume over 30 percent of the health care dollars and comprise

The influence of attitudes about death on advance directive completion

Creator:: Srinivasan, Erica G.
Abstract:: Surveys of both patients and health care providers have indicated strong interest, up to 95%, in favor of advance directives, which are legal documents that express patients' healthcare treatment decisions. Despite the widespread support for advance directives, actual completion rates are very low, ranging from 4% to 20% for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Surveys of both patients and health care providers have indicated strong interest, up to 95%, in favor of

The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughters

Creator:: Alger, Georgina
Abstract:: Decreasing mortality rates and increasing life expectancy are contributing factors in a trend currently referred to as the "graying" of America. Some members of this aging population will require caregiving support from their families. Because women tend to outlive men, adult daughters generally assume this important role for their widowed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and

The impact of child-centered play therapy on anxiety levels in pre-neurosurgical pediatric patients

Creator:: Lerwick, Julie L.
Abstract:: The prevalence of childhood illness requiring hospitalization establishes the need for implementation of an applied intervention to decrease levels of hospitalization-induced anxiety in pediatric patients. In addition to anxiety, levels of perceived trauma have also been linked to pre-operative pediatric patients. Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) within the medical setting has...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Ramsay, 1972). Pre-Operative: Physical and psychological care prior to surgery either on the day of

Giving credit where credit is due : the relationship between partner acknowledgement of the division of labor and couple intimacy

Creator:: Ottusch, Timothy M.
Abstract:: Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), this study assessed the implications of the division of labor on relationship intimacy for married and cohabitating dual-earner couples (N= 392 couples). The study focused on what mothers and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), this study assessed the implications of the division

The relationship of personal and social resources on coping and individual well-being in caregivers of dementia patients

Creator:: Wright, Scott D.
Abstract:: Alzheimer's disease, a chronic and irreversible form of dementia, has been recognized as one of the most critical medical-social-economic problems facing our country. As Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias progress, the patient becomes increasingly dependent upon family and natural support systems to provide care. This dependency can place the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: natural support systems to provide care. This dependency can place the caregiver in a role that is both

Prevalence and association of depressive symptoms with physical disability and long-term care use among older American Indians

Creator:: Schure, Marc B.
Abstract:: Health officials have recently been sounding the alarm that depression will soon surpass many of the major medical conditions in causing disability among adults. Recent demographic and health trends are generating public health concern about depression. First, the prevalence of chronic conditions has dramatically increased over the last several generations....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Disability and Long-Term Care Use among Older American Indians AN ABSTRACT OF THE

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Finding safe homes : a quantitative analysis of child wellbeing across placement qptions

An examination of kin and nonkin foster parents’ experiences

"No pain, no fear, no regrets": views of a good death

Relationships among health and demographic characteristics, latitude of choice, and elderly hospitalized patient adjustment

The influence of attitudes about death on advance directive completion

The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughters

The impact of child-centered play therapy on anxiety levels in pre-neurosurgical pediatric patients

Giving credit where credit is due : the relationship between partner acknowledgement of the division of labor and couple intimacy

The relationship of personal and social resources on coping and individual well-being in caregivers of dementia patients

Prevalence and association of depressive symptoms with physical disability and long-term care use among older American Indians

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