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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 The recent discovery of several new endogenous opioid peptides has generated excitement over their potential physiological roles. For example, endomorphins are likely to have well defined functions due to their affinity and selectivity for a class of extensively studied opioid receptors (1).
J R, Walker, G F, Koob
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Disciplinary practices among orphaned children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectivesThis study considers whether orphans' experiences with physically and psychologically violent discipline differ from non-orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, and to what extent national, community, household, caretaker, and child characteristics ...
Mark Lee, Elizabeth Heger Boyle
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Outcomes of Orphanhood in Ethiopia: A Mixed Methods Study [PDF]
, 2010 The paper addresses the question of whether parental death always has a strongly negative effect on children’s outcomes using quantitative and qualitative data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia.
Camfield, Laura
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Stakeholders’ Involvement and Orphans’ Comfortability with Residential Placement Options in Nigeria
European Review Of Applied Sociology, 2022 Nigerian orphans face a range of challenges, including finding a suitable place to live, having to choose who to live with and this choice is influenced by various factors.
Ojo Olubukola Olakunbi +6 more
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Implementation of the state policy on children in Tula oblast [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The profound and comprehensive crisis faced by the Russian Federation in the 1990s severely affected families and children. With the advent of the new millennium, however, funding for all aspects regarding family and children increased and the role and ...
Shaidenko Nadezhda Anatolievna +2 more
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On the issue of professional foster parents position
Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2015 This article deals with discussing the phenomenon of parent professionalism in the sphere of family placement. It contains a review of domestic and international literature on the topic of psychological social differences and special characteristics of ...
Zhuykova E.B., Panyusheva T.D.
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Subjective Well-being in Children: Measurement Tools and Age Dynamics
Психологическая наука и образование, 2018 This review article deals with the methods for measurement of subjective well-being in children and adolescents. The first part of the review presents an outlook of several psychometric instruments that demonstrate various approaches to measuring ...
Archakova T.O.,
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Housing Rights of Orphans: Problems of Legal Guarantees
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: политические, социологические и экономические науки, 2023 The Russian Federation as a welfare state has to guarantee social protection for certain target groups, one of which is orphans. Housing rights of orphans are central in the complex of social rights, but the problem of inability to secure housing for ...
Ksenia S. Nikolaeva
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Menstrual hygiene – A salient hazard in rural schools: A case of Masvingo district of Zimbabwe
Jàmbá, 2016 Active participation of the girl child in development is hampered by Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) challenges. MHM is an important gender issue and a critical component in holistic human development.
Everson Ndlovu, Ednah Bhala
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BMC Psychiatry, 2022 Background Few studies have explored the health and development of AIDS orphans using the positive youth development (PYD) framework. Grounded in this framework, the main objective of this study is to examine how internal assets (i.e., resilience) and ...
Shimin Lai +9 more
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