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Another Look at Family Adjustment

2015
This chapter argues that in the international career context there is a need to conceptualise the adjustment of the family unit holistically. We discuss what that means and how it can be done. We note that to date the family has almost always been conceptualised as a hindrance to or a support for the working expatriate.
Haslberger, Arno, Hippler, Thomas, Brewster, Chris   +2 more
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Family adjustment to American culture

New Directions for Higher Education, 2002
AbstractWhen international students and professors bring their families to the United States, the entire family goes through the typical stages of culture shock. However, parents can help their children go through those stages more easily by employing certain strategies.
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Size of Family and Adjustment of Children

Marriage and Family Living, 1958
The relationship between family size and adjustment of children was studied in 256 Midwestern children. The Rogers test of personality adjustment was used. The children in the sample lived in rural areas and towns with populations under 10000 in Ohio Kansas Iowa and Wisconsin. Family sizes ranged from 2 to 11 children.
G R, Hawkes, L, Burchinal, B, Gardner
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Chronic Headache Patients′ Marital and Family Adjustment

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 1991
The purpose of this study was to compare the marital and family adjustment of headache patients and their spouses, before pain control treatment, to couples without chronic pain. Minuchin's (1978) family systems theory of psychosomatic illness was tested, using an adult sample.
M, Basolo-Kunzer, S, Diamond, M, Maliszewski, L, Weyermann, J, Reed   +4 more
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Family, Migration, and Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness

Social Work in Health Care, 1997
The present study examines the coping style of new immigrants in Israel from the former Soviet Union who have been diagnosed with cancer. One hundred and six new immigrants, who were being treated at the Linn Clinical Oncological Institute in Haifa during the first six months of 1992, participated in the study.
A, Ben-David, O, Gilbar
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Postshelter Adjustment of Children From Violent Families

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
Few studies have examined the adjustment of battered women and their children after exiting domestic violence shelters. Participants were 62 women who had endured severe partner abuse, completed a shelter program with their children, and resided in the community for at least 6 months.
Kelly L, Jarvis, Raymond W, Novaco
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Acculturation Gap And Family Adjustment

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2006
This study examined the impact of “acculturation gaps” on family adjustment of 115 adolescent refugees from the former Soviet Union and their parents. Acculturation and acculturation gaps were assessed with respect to the American and Russian culture and separately for identity, behavioral, and language competence dimensions of acculturation ...
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Ordinal Position, Family Size, and Personal Adjustment

The Journal of Psychology, 1972
(1972). Ordinal Position, Family Size, and Personal Adjustment. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 53-58.
B R, Swanson, R H, Massey, I R, Payne
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Adjustment in the Family Situation

Review of Educational Research, 1943
RESEARCH STUDIES AND TEXTBOOKS for courses in marriage and family relationships have appeared in rapid succession. The trend expressed in textbooks continues to be away from the historical and descriptive emphases to the practical and personal needs of students, with a growing insistence upon functional programs of instruction.
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The Adjustment of the Family to Alcoholism

Marriage and Family Living, 1956
THERE is a sizable literature on alcoholism and on families in crisis. However, there have been few publications dealing with families who are attempting to make an adjustment to the crisis of alcoholism. Individual members of the families of alcoholics have been studied.
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