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The impact of staff training on the knowledge of support staff in relation to bereavement and people with an intellectual disability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This study aimed to investigate whether a 1-day training course improved support staff knowledge about bereavement and grief in people with a learning disability. A questionnaire based, mixed design was used.
Bennett   +43 more
core   +1 more source

What is it like to be an infant?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.
Abstract In the philosophy of mind literature, consciousness is commonly defined not in terms of its physical correlates but rather its subjective character – the ‘something that it is like to be' an organism. In this conceptual article, this formulation is applied to the study of neonate subjectivity, giving rise to the question: what is it like to be
Matthew Goldreich
wiley   +1 more source

Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’ Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services [PDF]

open access: yes
Community support services (CSSs) enable persons coping with health or social problems to maintain the highest possible level of social functioning and quality of life. Access to these services is challenging because of the multiplicity of small agencies
Brian Hutchison   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Resilience in Caregivers of Partners With Young Onset Dementia: A Concept Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Introduction: Over 200,000 Americans diagnosed with young onset dementia (YOD), dementia diagnosed prior to age 65, are cared for by family members. This can be costly to caregivers’physical and psychological health. Some adapt well to the caregiver role
Bekhet, Abir K., Kobiske, Karie R.
core   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Contact Disputes: Navigating Protection, Participation and Alienation

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how children's agency is framed, constrained and sometimes co‐opted within contested child arrangement proceedings, particularly in the context of alienation and coercive behaviours. Drawing on qualitative interviews with legal professionals in Northern Ireland, the study explores how statutory interventions, though well ...
Mairead McCormack
wiley   +1 more source

The Long View: Has Anything Really Improved for Children and Families Involved with Child Welfare over 3 Decades? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The overall poor health status and outcomes of children and youth in foster care have been documented in multiple studies over the last 3 decades. During this time, knowledge about brain development, positive parenting, resilience, traumatic stress, and ...
Szilagyi, Moira
core   +2 more sources

Trajectories of Change Following Relationship Education for Couples Raising Children With Disabilities

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Couples raising children with disabilities face unique and ongoing stressors that challenge their capacity to parent effectively and threaten the health of their couple and coparenting relationship. This may be especially true among couples receiving child welfare services. Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation model, the current study
Christine M. Hargrove   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal and Paternal Extended Family Support Among Children in Foster Care: Associations With Internalizing Symptoms Trajectories

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior work suggests that children who are supported by their extended family kinship network experience fewer internalizing problems, with most of this support coming from the maternal side of the family. However, less is known about the unique contributions to well‐being associated with maternal versus paternal extended family support among ...
Kimberly R. Davenport   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing and Implementing a Longitudinal Study of Children with Neurological, Genetic, or Metabolic Conditions: \u3cem\u3eCharting the Territory\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background: Children with progressive metabolic, neurological, or chromosomal conditions and their families anticipate an unknown lifespan, endure unstable and often painful symptoms, and cope with erratic emotional and spiritual crises as the condition ...
Andrews, Gail S.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Extended emotions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Until recently, philosophers and psychologists conceived of emotions as brain- and body-bound affairs. But researchers have started to challenge this internalist and individualist orthodoxy.
Krueger, Joel, Szanto, Thomas
core   +2 more sources

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