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The non-victimized siblings in incestuous families have often been ignored in research, literature, and treatment. This study explored these siblings' 1) relationship to the victim, 2) attribution of blame, and 3) adjustment. Participants were 30 non-victimized siblings of incest victims, between the ages of 8 and 14. They completed the Sibling Relationship Questionnaire, the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, the Self-perception Profile for Children, the Children's Depression Inventory, and a questionnaire developed for this research. Participants' scores were compared with the normative sample scores on several measures. Siblings perceived little warmth and closeness in their relationships to their victimized sisters. Rivalry and conflict were within normal limits. Siblings blamed victims and other family members less than expected, with the greatest amount of blame attributed to perpetrators. Adjustment was impaired. Males demonstrated less athletic competence, less global self-worth, more worry and oversensitivity than normative samples. Females showed a tendency toward less global self-worth and heightened general anxiety. Siblings' overall level of emotional distress was higher than most of the normative samples.

A multiple baseline design was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of a sibling training package including modeling, role-play, and feedback on play and engagement between children with autism and their siblings. The results of two experiments suggest that, following training, siblings of children with autism correctly implemented all trained interaction components. Additionally, Experiment II assessed and programmed generalization to other materials and a non-training setting. The results showed that some unprogrammed generalization to non-trained toys occurred. Conversely, siblings engaged in trained skills in a non-training setting (home) only following the experimenter's instructions to generalize. In both experiments, the siblings' overall engagement and physical proximity of play in training sessions increased significantly above baseline. This study extends previous research in that it includes additional stimulus and response generalization measures.

Evolution of a Smart Girl is a collection of short stories that chronicles the evolution of the modern American female. The stories are arranged in three parts: "Dirty Barbie & Breakable Boys" focuses on adolescent relationships between boys and girls; "Some Things Can't Be Unbroken" centers on Maggie and Charlie Copper's marriage after Maggie is diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of twenty-five; and "Of Apples and Broken Scabs" presents four stories about four very different women who experience heartbreak in love, friendship, and lust. This work explores the ways in which a girl's interactions with others shape her into the young woman she becomes. Through same-sex friendships, romantic relationships, and sibling rivalries, the women in these stories experience intellectual and sexual awakenings.

This study examines Haudenosaunee foodways in the Great Lakes Region between the early seventeenth century and the mid to late eighteenth century. The study is divided into two parts. First, the Creation Story is explored as it transmits the origin of the Three Sisters, a cropping system of inter-planted corn, beans and squash. The teachings of the Three Sisters highlights the importance of polyculture and sustainability. Conversely, a Westerners’ scientific account of how the Three Sisters came to be farmed together is studied. The independent pathways of the corn, beans and squash is examined as they arrived in New York State from the Mexico highlands. Recent findings show the Three Sisters were adopted independently in eastern North America beginning around A.D. 1300. They were grown together in some locations on a regular basis. The adoption of the polycultural complex of the Three Sisters was gradual and took place approximately 700 years ago as each of the crops adjusted to the climate and new surroundings. Secondly, the relationship between food, specifically the Three Sisters and acculturative change are examined pre-and-post contact. Acculturative change occurs when two independent cultures comes into contact with one another. The degree of influence is not equal as one culture can be absorbed, shaped or influenced more strongly by the other culture. The Haudenosaunee culture underwent acculturative change because the fur trade economy affected their foodways due to the influx of European goods such as the brass kettle and encroachment on their land and hunting grounds. The Haudenosaunee retained the core of their cultural beliefs and cultural practices because they made decisions, specifically their selection of goods and agricultural practices, as an extension of their cultural beliefs. Acculturative change resulted in a more monocropped and creolized agricultural system, usage of draft animals, fruit orchards and the plow. This study lies at the intersection of ethnohistory and food history. This study will serve as a tool to analyze and understand Haudenosaunee historical experiences from a First Nations cultural perspective. / Graduate / 2017-08-21

Thesis advisor: Hosffman Opsino / Women Religious founded more than half of the current two hundred and sixty institutions of Catholic higher education in the United States. Rooted in a distinct mission to women’s education in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, these colleges and universities have demonstrated a strong commitment to educate the politically, economically, educationally, and ecclesially marginalized, with particular emphasis on the empowerment of women. For nearly a century, these colleges and universities have creatively adapted to various changes in the educational and cultural landscape and have navigated and negotiated the complex relationships between the Church, the university, and the larger U.S. society. Ironically, their experiences and stories remain widely unknown compared to those of similar institutions founded by and for men. Using a historical and theological lens, this dissertation demonstrates how the deep stories that sustained the life and identity of many Women Religious in the United States inspired the foundation of colleges and universities that distinctively saw these stories in unique ways. In doing so, they modeled new and creative ways of education women, and others, that remain to be genuinely studied and incorporated into the larger narrative of U.S. Catholic higher education. At a time of major cultural, demographic, and ecclesial transitions, this dissertation proposes ways for those deep stories to continue to give life, even in the absence of the women who embodied them. It does so by focusing primarily on the example of the Sisters of Mercy and one of their universities. This work proposes practical approaches for leaders in Catholic higher education to embrace the deep stories grounding their institutions in order to cultivate practices and commitments that prophetically advance the identity and mission of their institutions in the twenty-first century. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gisele Falanga Capela Fabreti.pdf: 1104965 bytes, checksum: accae459b9e90b4d70916198ed6ea52b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-05 / The aim of this work is to understand the dark experience among female siblings bond, checking also the sister´s relevance in woman´s individuation process. Therefore, the jungian concepts and systemic approach have been used as base to analyze fictitious experiences shown by the movies in three stories: The Wedding Date , In her Shoes and Mystic Pizza . The methodological choice has been made based on theoretical verification that relationship among female siblings brings up several feelings and members of sisterhood tend to guard themselves or attack each other on their speeches, but the authors tend to be more authentic regarding their feelings in their work compared to biographies. In this analysis, it has been verified that this unique bond provides better conditions for the shadow to act out, but it depends on the ego´s structure which allows a better or worse shadow integration, fostering family and sibling´s pattern changes, or keeping up with rooted patterns / Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender a vivência sombria no vínculo fraterno feminino, observando ainda a importância da irmã no processo de individuação da mulher. Para isso utilizou-se do referencial teórico junguiano e da abordagem sistêmica, buscando aproximações através da análise de vivências ficcionais trazidas pelo cinema em três filmes: Muito Bem Acompanhada , Em seu Lugar e Três Mulheres, Três Amores . A escolha da metodologia deu-se pela constatação teórica de que a relação entre irmãs suscita muitos afetos e que os membros da fratria tendem a resguardar-se ou atacar-se em relatos, mas nas obras culturais, os autores tendem a atribuir a seus personagens grande autenticidade de afetos, mais que em biografias. Verificou-se na análise que o vínculo diferenciado dá sustentação para a atuação da sombra, mas que é a estrutura de ego que permite ou não maior ou menor integração da sombra, promovendo mudanças de papéis familiares e na fratria, ou levando à perpetuação dos padrões arraigados

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-05-04T12:40:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE VENTURA BANDEIRA DE LIMA.pdf: 16764119 bytes, checksum: 813d6c5cc61915526b74b5b43eb8d639 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-04T12:40:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE VENTURA BANDEIRA DE LIMA.pdf: 16764119 bytes, checksum: 813d6c5cc61915526b74b5b43eb8d639 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-03 / This paper aims at analyzing socio-cultural relations prevailing inside father Ibiapina’s Charity Houses, which contributed to his social work emphasizing the figure of Mary as developed by Classical Mariology. In this sense, Reception History was an important tool in this analysis, along with a dialogue with some distinguished authors who privilege this gender in their works. A review of the works of Bourdieu, Geertz, Berger, and Foucault among other social thinkers was necessary to accomplish a more vivid portrait of the social interactions experienced in the research, as well as the religious foundation of their relations, considering that their ideas allowed us to make an in-depth study of the social constructions that prevail in them. This kind of reflection let a large result concerning father Ibiana’s letters, the sisters’ of charity ones, the statute ruling the Charity Houses, the poems of the charity sisters published in the Voz da Religião no Cariri newspaper, and the moral maxima written down by father Ibiapina. All considered, we are sure that these core issues granted a better comprehension of what happens among the members of the group and between them and their counterparts. / Esta tese teve como intuito analisar as relações socioculturais existentes nas Casas de Caridade do Padre Ibiapina que contribuíram para sua obra social, dando ênfase à figura de Maria nos moldes da Mariologia Clássica. Para tanto, foram utilizadas como ferramentas de análise as reflexões trazidas pela história da recepção em diálogo com alguns autores que trazem o gênero como categoria analítica. Contudo, para um maior aprofundamento das interações sociais vivenciadas pelo grupo em estudo e, sobretudo, da religiosidade que embasa as suas relações, foi feita uma retomada dos estudos de, dentre outros autores, Bourdieu, Geertz, Berge e Foucault, tendo em vista que, a partir destes, foi possível estudar com profundidade a tessitura das construções sociais ali predominantes. Tal reflexão se deu em constante recorrência às cartas do Padre Ibiapina, das Irmãs de Caridade e dos beatos, ao estatuto que regia as Casas de Caridade do Padre Ibiapina, aos versos compostos pelas Irmãs de Caridade presentes no jornal Voz da Religião no Cariri, às máximas morais escritas pelo Padre Ibiapina, com um estudo voltado para a cultura brasileira e, especialmente, a nordestina, bem como a visão de Maria enquanto alvo de devoção e modelo de santidade, por serem estes pontos basilares para a garantia da compreensão do grupo em questão.