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Gu Minmin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-113). / Abstracts in English and Chinese; appendices also in Chinese. / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Divorce in China --- p.3 / "Children's adjustment to divorce in the Mainland, China" --- p.5 / Research questions --- p.6 / Organization of the thesis --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.8 / Research on children's divorce adjustment in China --- p.8 / Research on children's divorce adjustment in the West --- p.13 / Resilience perspective in children's divorce adjustment --- p.16 / Summary --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK --- p.31 / Resilience perspective as the guiding perspective --- p.31 / Children's divorce adjustment as conceptualized by resilience perspective --- p.31 / Relevant issues --- p.33 / Summary --- p.35 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- METHODOLOGY --- p.37 / Qualitative approach --- p.37 / Sample --- p.38 / Data collection --- p.43 / Data analysis --- p.45 / Procedures to ensure credibility of the research --- p.46 / Ethical issues in the research --- p.48 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- THE SEVEN LIFE STORIES --- p.49 / Xiao Jun --- p.49 / Xiao Yin --- p.52 / Xiao Fang --- p.54 / An Jing --- p.57 / Yan Yan --- p.60 / Xiao Zhong --- p.64 / Jiong Jiong --- p.68 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- COMMON PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND PROTECTIVE MECHANISMS --- p.73 / Common protective factors --- p.73 / Protective mechanisms: How protective factors work with risk factors --- p.81 / Summary --- p.85 / Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN: --- DISCUSSION --- p.86 / Contextual protective factors: resources and limitations --- p.86 / Unresolved risk factor: the inadequacy of the legal system --- p.90 / Chapter CHAPTER EIGHT: --- RECOMMNEDATIONS --- p.92 / Recommendations and interventions at ideological level --- p.92 / Recommendations and interventions at a structural and policy level --- p.95 / Recommendations and interventions at individual and family levels --- p.98 / Recommendations at the research level --- p.100 / REFERENCES --- p.103 / APPENDICES --- p.114

Many divorcing persons turn to treatment programs hoping for assistance in managing the process of divorce. Treatment programs include individual as well as group process models. One of the goals of most group process programs is to generate peer support which in turn is hoped to facilitate the process of divorce adjustment. Evaluations of such programs are few and limited. This study is an evaluation of a group process divorce adjustment intervention entitled, Divorce Recovery Workshop. This intervention includes education and support components. Two different methods of workshop delivery are compared and analyzed to determine the influence of support on the process of divorce adjustment. One method includes a small group component, the other does not. This workshop, offered during 1992/3, drew participants from the greater Salem, Oregon area who had recently divorced. This study examines four areas of divorce adjustment, comparing the two methods of workshop delivery, as well as participant experiences of support. These four included depression, degree of control, self-esteem, and persistence of attachment. Participants were administered pre-workshop and post-workshop questionnaires. Standardized measures included the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977), the Rosenberg Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) for assessing self-esteem, and the Acceptance of Marital Termination Scale (Thompson and Spanier, 1983). Nonstandardized measures included the Degree of Control After Divorce Scale, the Support List adapted from a social support measure (Bengtson and Mangen, 1988), the Support Scale adapted from a medical intervention peer support measure (Pratt, 1984), and a brief Satisfaction with Support Scale. This evaluation revealed positive outcomes for participants in the four areas of divorce adjustment regardless of method of program delivery. Participants also showed increased experiences of support attributable to the intervention. However, additional research is needed to establish the relationship between support and divorce adjustment. The lack of a control group should lead to caution to generalizing these results. / Graduation date: 1994

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007. / Prepared for: Dept. of Psychology. Bibliography: leaves 107-116. Also available online.

Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2006. / A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographic references (leaves [164]-180).

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

M.Ed. (Educational Psychology) / As an educator, psychologist, or counselor one is frequently confronted with the devastation and turmoil Divorce brings to the lives of children and how it aims at stealing their Hope and happiness. The aim in this research study was to consult children about their relationship with Divorce in order to learn about hopefulness from them when standing up to Divorce. To discover Hope in the face of Divorce, this qualitative study was conducted with children utilising participatory action research and narrative therapy. The theoretical foundation operated from, was the post-modernist paradigm and social constructionist discourse. This theoretical foundation was selected as it draws from the same philosophical markers as participatory action research and narrative therapy. The children who participated in this research study were two girls that I conversed with in therapy as part of my internship at a private practice. The two young girls I conversed with, both referred themselves for therapeutic conversations as they were being confronted by Divorce in their families. They are respectively ten and eleven years of age. These two girls participated after the finalisation of the divorce proceedings in their families. In this study, I drew on multiple methods of data collection during the research process in order to construct and generate rich data with the participants. The data included therapeutic conversations, artworks, journal texts and whatever else the children brought to our conversations. The recording of the children's experiences (data) was done by gathering and reflecting thick descriptions. These thick descriptions reflected their Hope and enriched my understanding of Hope.