Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa descritiva que teve como objeto de estudo as estratégias de enfrentamento dos pais com o nascimento de uma criança com anomalia craniofacial. Objetivou identificar o impacto causado nos pais frente ao nascimento de um filho portador de anomalia craniofacial; descrever as estratégias de enfrentamento que os pais utilizam para estabelecer vinculação com o filho que apresenta malformação. Utilizou o método Narrativa de Vida, através da entrevista gravada com 15 mães e sete pais de crianças com malformação craniofacial. O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A coleta de dados foi realizada entre junho e agosto de 2014. As narrativas apontaram para a emergência de três categorias: Ter um filho com anomalia craniofacial: situação impactante; Estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas por pais de crianças com malformação craniofacial; Pais e profissionais da equipe de saúde: uma relação conturbada. As categorias puderam explicitar que a notícia da malformação gera impacto e crise na vida dos pais e no seio familiar. A grande expectativa na gravidez pelo bebê perfeito se transforma em frustração, choque e culpa. Diante dessa adversidade, as famílias começam a desenvolver estratégias de enfrentamento que auxiliam vinculação com seu filho malformado. Essa capacidade de desenvolver forças e habilidades para se adaptar à nova realidade, minimizando os efeitos negativos, é chamada de resiliência. As narrativas apontam a experiência religiosa e a rede de apoio como as principais estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas pelos participantes. A equipe de saúde é chamada a apoiar os pais ao longo do processo de adaptação com o filho malformado. Os profissionais de saúde podem auxiliar no suporte e adaptação destes pais, diante da nova condição, sendo agentes promotores da escuta terapêutica. Compreender o que há por detrás de cada história desvelada, traz subsídios para potencializar a resiliência no acolhimento institucional dos pais e sua família. / This paper is a qualitative descriptive research that studies the parents' confrontation strategies when in the birth of a child with a craniofacial anomaly. It targeted to identify the impact on parents of a birth of a child with craniofacial anomaly; to describe the parents' confrontation strategies to create a bounding with their ill-formed child. This paper used the Life's Narrative method through an interview with fifteen mothers and seven fathers of children with craniofacial anomaly. This study was approved by the Rio de Janeiro State University Ethics Committee. The data gathering took place between June and August 2014. The narratives pointed to the emerging of three categories: having a child with craniofacial anomaly: impacting situation; Confrontation strategies used by the parents of children with craniofacial anomaly; Parents and healthcare workers: a disturbed relationship. The categories were able to clarify that the ill-formation's news generate an impact and a crisis in the parents' life and in the family unity. The pregnancy's big anticipation for a perfect baby turns into frustration, shock and guilt. In face of this adversity, the families start to develop confrontation's strategies that assist the bounding with the ill-formed child. This capacity to develop forces and abilities to adapt to this new reality, minimizing its negative effects, is called resilience. The narratives point to the religious experience and the support system as the main confrontation strategies used by the participants. The healthcare team is called to support the parents through the adapting process to an ill-formed child. The healthcare professionals can auxiliate on supporting those parents through adaptation to this new condition being promoting agents of the therapeutical listening. Understanding what is behind each unveiled history brings aids to strengthen the resilience in the institutional reception of the parents and their family.

Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa descritiva que teve como objeto de estudo as estratégias de enfrentamento dos pais com o nascimento de uma criança com anomalia craniofacial. Objetivou identificar o impacto causado nos pais frente ao nascimento de um filho portador de anomalia craniofacial; descrever as estratégias de enfrentamento que os pais utilizam para estabelecer vinculação com o filho que apresenta malformação. Utilizou o método Narrativa de Vida, através da entrevista gravada com 15 mães e sete pais de crianças com malformação craniofacial. O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A coleta de dados foi realizada entre junho e agosto de 2014. As narrativas apontaram para a emergência de três categorias: Ter um filho com anomalia craniofacial: situação impactante; Estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas por pais de crianças com malformação craniofacial; Pais e profissionais da equipe de saúde: uma relação conturbada. As categorias puderam explicitar que a notícia da malformação gera impacto e crise na vida dos pais e no seio familiar. A grande expectativa na gravidez pelo bebê perfeito se transforma em frustração, choque e culpa. Diante dessa adversidade, as famílias começam a desenvolver estratégias de enfrentamento que auxiliam vinculação com seu filho malformado. Essa capacidade de desenvolver forças e habilidades para se adaptar à nova realidade, minimizando os efeitos negativos, é chamada de resiliência. As narrativas apontam a experiência religiosa e a rede de apoio como as principais estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas pelos participantes. A equipe de saúde é chamada a apoiar os pais ao longo do processo de adaptação com o filho malformado. Os profissionais de saúde podem auxiliar no suporte e adaptação destes pais, diante da nova condição, sendo agentes promotores da escuta terapêutica. Compreender o que há por detrás de cada história desvelada, traz subsídios para potencializar a resiliência no acolhimento institucional dos pais e sua família. / This paper is a qualitative descriptive research that studies the parents' confrontation strategies when in the birth of a child with a craniofacial anomaly. It targeted to identify the impact on parents of a birth of a child with craniofacial anomaly; to describe the parents' confrontation strategies to create a bounding with their ill-formed child. This paper used the Life's Narrative method through an interview with fifteen mothers and seven fathers of children with craniofacial anomaly. This study was approved by the Rio de Janeiro State University Ethics Committee. The data gathering took place between June and August 2014. The narratives pointed to the emerging of three categories: having a child with craniofacial anomaly: impacting situation; Confrontation strategies used by the parents of children with craniofacial anomaly; Parents and healthcare workers: a disturbed relationship. The categories were able to clarify that the ill-formation's news generate an impact and a crisis in the parents' life and in the family unity. The pregnancy's big anticipation for a perfect baby turns into frustration, shock and guilt. In face of this adversity, the families start to develop confrontation's strategies that assist the bounding with the ill-formed child. This capacity to develop forces and abilities to adapt to this new reality, minimizing its negative effects, is called resilience. The narratives point to the religious experience and the support system as the main confrontation strategies used by the participants. The healthcare team is called to support the parents through the adapting process to an ill-formed child. The healthcare professionals can auxiliate on supporting those parents through adaptation to this new condition being promoting agents of the therapeutical listening. Understanding what is behind each unveiled history brings aids to strengthen the resilience in the institutional reception of the parents and their family.

abstract: Several decades of research have concluded that child social functioning is a critical predictor of wellbeing across various developmental domains. Most scientists agree that both genetic and environmental influences play defining roles in social behavior; the processes by which they concurrently affect child development, however, has been the subject of less research. This work examines distinct mechanisms that shape child prosociality by examining genetic and environmental influences on development, via two empirical studies. The first study analyzed the evocative-reactive and the evocative-socially-mediated hypotheses as gene-environment correlation (rGE) mechanisms connecting the arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1a) and dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) genes, child prosocial behavior, and parent differential treatment (PDT). Findings present modest evidence for the evocative-reactive rGE hypothesis; specifically, AVPR1a marginally influenced child prosociality, which subsequently predicted mother preference in adolescence. The second study examined several gene-environment interactions (GxEs) in exploring how social environmental variables- positive and negative parenting- predicted child prosociality, as moderated by socially-implicated child genes, DRD2 and dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4). Findings indicated that while positive parenting was predictive of child prosociality regardless of genetic variants, the effects of negative parenting on child prosociality were dependent on child genetic variants. Together, findings from these studies suggest modest genetic and environmental influences on child behavior in middle childhood and adolescence, consistent with previous research and theory. Directions for future research are offered, and intervention and policy implications are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Family and Human Development 2013

A deficiência é compreendida como uma articulação entre os aspectos orgânicos, ambientais e pessoais. O resultado final do cruzamento destes fatores engendra o quadro final observado. No entanto, pouco se produziu sobre esta incidência dos fatores pessoais. A literatura propõe que crianças com deficiência física apresentam prejuízos na imagem corporal, associando alterações orgânicas com dificuldades do eu. Entretanto, estabelecem associações diretas e não indicam de que modo este eu prejudicado poderia compor o quadro da deficiência. Desta forma, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo explorar a imagem corporal no processo de constituição subjetiva de crianças com deficiência física congênita. Neste recorte, buscou-se investigar como o corpo incide sobre o sujeito e quais os efeitos da incidência do sujeito sobre o corpo. Para tal, é realizada uma revisão da literatura e a coleta de casos cínicos utilizando a Avaliação Psicanalítica aos 3 Anos (AP3) e o Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH) em duas crianças com deficiência física e seus pais, seguindo o método clínico-qualitativo. Foi observado que nestes casos existem riscos de prejuízos da imagem corporal por conta de especificidades do quadro orgânico, como o excesso de intervenções e manipulações; manifestações do corpo, como movimentos involuntários, que rompem o simbólico e o imaginário e o uso de próteses/órteses. Estes dados orgânicos foram atrelados às significações e identificações que se oferecem ao eu, somadas as já presentes na rede significante na qual a \"deficiência\" está inserida. Desta forma, verificou-se que tais identificações podem levar a danos secundários à deficiência, compondo seu quadro final. Os prejuízos na imagem corporal foram atrelados às demais manifestações do inconsciente, indicando no processo de constituição subjetiva e no exercício das funções parentais as bases da imagem corporal e das organizações pessoais que irão tomar o corpo e a deficiência. Frente aos dados, foram feitas considerações às áreas afins que podem se beneficiar do trabalho em equipe com o psicanalista e psicólogo. Concluindo, a pesquisa aponta para a noção de risco, seja de prejuízos da imagem corporal quanto de constituição do sujeito, levantando questões como o desenvolvimento de uma clínica preventiva e o estudo das reações frente à deficiência, o que se estende as diferentes deficiências dada a marca significante que carregam / Disability is understood as a combination of organic, environmental and personal aspects. The final result of the blend of these factors produces the condition observed. However, little has been written about the effects of these personal aspects. Literature suggests that children with physical disabilities suffer damage to their body image, and associates organic alterations with difficulties of the ego. However, although it makes direct associations, it fails to indicate how this impaired ego might be part of the overall picture of the disability. Thus, the aim of this research is to explore body image in the process of the subjective constitution of children with congenital physical disabilities. How the body affects the subject and the effects of the subject on the body were investigated. To this end, a review of the literature was made and data on clinical cases was collected, using the clinical-qualitative method, by performing the Psychoanalytic Assessment of 3-year-olds (PA3) and the Human Figure Drawing (HFD) on two children with physical disabilities and their parents. It was observed that in these cases, there is risk of damage to body image due to specificities of the organic condition such as excessive interventions and manipulation; body manifestations such as involuntary movements, which break the symbolic and the imaginary; and the use of prosthesis/orthosis. These organic data were linked to the meanings and identifications offered to the ego, in addition to those already present in the signifier\'s network in which the \"disability\" is contained. Thus, it was verified that these identifications can lead to damages secondary to the disability, composing its overall picture. Damages to body image were linked to other manifestations of the unconscious, indicating the bases of the body image and personal organization that the body and the disability will take on in the process of subjective constitution and the exercise of parental functions. Based on the data, considerations were made regarding related areas that might benefit from working jointly with psychoanalysts and psychologists. To conclude, the research points to the notion of risk, whether of damage to body image or to the constitution of the subject, raising questions such as the need for a preventative practice and the study of reaction to disability, which extends to different disabilities according to their particular signifier

Magister Artium (Social Work) - MA(SW) / The first year of university studies is usually accompanied by many new experiences, often stressful, and family members fulfil a significant role in helping to reduce students' stress and facilitate their adjustment. Research has indicated that the overall first year experience sets the tone for the subsequent well-being of students both academically and personally, and if this is negative then the university dropout rates are likely to remain high. This study seeks to determine the effects of family structure and parental autonomy-support on students' adjustment during the first year of university. The study employed a quantitative, cross-sectional correlational research design. Participants were selected by means of convenient sampling, and only consisted of first year university students between the ages of 18 and 25 years who were registered at the University of the Western Cape. Data was collected via an online survey consisting of three self-reported questionnaires, namely the perceived parental autonomy-support scale, the college adaptation questionnaire, and also demographic information. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Participants' right to privacy, confidentiality and anonymity was observed throughout the study. The results suggest that students from two-parent families are better adjusted than students from one-parent families. Furthermore, results of the total sample suggest a significant relationship between good adjustment and autonomy-supportive parenting, while a significant negative relationship exists between poor adjustment and autonomy-supportive parenting. When determining the separate results for two-parent families and one-parent families, it was established from the regression analysis that good adjustment was only predicted by mother autonomy-support in two-parent families, accounting for 7% of the variance. Poor adjustment in two-parent families was negatively predicted by mother and father autonomy-support, and was accounted for by 11% of variance. In one-parent families, neither good nor poor adjustment was predicted by parenting behaviours.

abstract: This dissertation explores the technolinguistic brokering experience of adolescents and (im)migrant non-English speaking mothers in acculturating families. By focusing on the performance of cultural intermediation, I examine the dimensions of technolinguistic brokering and their influence upon the Adolescent Language Technology Broker (ALTB) and mother relationship. Additionally, I explore the factors of power present as a result of the complexities of the ALTBs role to connect their mother to the English speaking community. This research uses a qualitative approach to explore concepts of expertise, knowledge, (inter)dependence, relational maintenance and quality, and power in the dialogic cultural relationship. Research indicates that expertise in the form of culture, cultural interactions, multilingual, and relational maintenance and quality contribute to the ALTBs capabilities in building cultural relationships. Moreover, to assist in dealing with power tensions created by differing levels of expertise and knowledge, ALTBs and mothers communicatively construct an (inter)dependent cultural relationship. I highlight practical implications, discuss limitations, and provide recommendations for future directions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Communication 2020

Theory of Mind (ToM), a social cognitive skill defined as one's ability to attribute mental states to self and others, is considered key for a successful navigation of one's social world. Extensive research has elucidated the early developmental trajectory, predictors, correlates, and outcomes of ToM in the first five years of a child's life. By contrast, although ToM continues to develop beyond age five, and children increasingly begin to function in more complex and interconnected social ecologies, very little is known about ToM in middle childhood. The present study examines ToM development in middle childhood, using a new measure that is age appropriate, innovative, and embedded in the flow of a naturalistic social interaction. Drawing from rich behavioral and report data collected from children, parents, and teachers in a longitudinal study from toddlerhood to middle childhood, interpersonal factors (the child's relationships with the mother, father, and peers), and intrapersonal factors (temperament characteristic of effortful control) are systematically examined to predict individual differences in children's performance in the new ToM measure at age 10. Associations between children's ToM and their broadly ranging, concurrently assessed clinical symptoms are also examined. As a preliminary venture, using a small sample of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their caregivers, the present study also seeks to establish preliminary criterion validity for the new measure of ToM.

Background and Purpose: Children diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes face significant challenges in the day to day management of their disease. Parents play an important role in supporting children at every stage of their lives and helping them transition to independence in the management of T1D. The purpose of this study was to learn from parents who have raised their children with T1D to adulthood and identify strategies for parents who are currently raising a child with T1D. Methods: Using a biographical method, a qualitative design, two in-depth interviews with open-ended prompts were completed with purposively selected parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) who have grown into adulthood (18 parents, 36 interviews). The first interview invited participants to share their experience raising a child with T1D. The second interview asked specific questions about challenges, things that went well, things that didn't go well and advice for parents currently raising a child with T1D. Qualitative content analysis was used. Results: Analysis of the data identified recommendations for parents currently raising children with T1D. Advice for the parents included, 1) Parental attitude toward diabetes will be reflected in the child – Keep it positive, 2) Learn as much as you can about diabetes, 3) Find a good diabetes provider – Make your endocrinologist your best friend, 4) Don't make diabetes the definition of the child – treat them as normal, 5) Empower self-management – Teach them along the way then step back and let them take over, 6) Be your child's advocate, 7) Find support – Formal or informal, 8) Listen to your child – Don't judge. Conclusions and Implications: Nurses and nurse practitioners can share strategies identified by parents that were helpful in raising their child with Type 1 Diabetes.

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Utilizing ethnographic methodology, this study examined and described the filial therapy process to provide an in-depth understanding of the process, the relations in progress, and effects on the parent, child, and parent/child relationship. This study supports filial therapy as a viable option for educating parents in effective parenting and training as agents of change. The results appear to be generalizable to other parents engaged in learning filial therapy since previous research reported similar findings.