Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (B.Psy.Sc.(Hons.)) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1986. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137).

M.A. / This qualitative study aimed to research three parent’s experience of a filial therapy programme. An exploratory - descriptive research design was utilised. Case studies were utilised, whereby three parent’s were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedule of open-ended questions. The interview schedule was verbally administered and was recorded by means of an audio tape-recorder. As a method of verification, a literature control was done to verify the trustworthiness and relevance of the findings. From this, guidelines based on the themes formulated, were discussed, recommendations given based on the guidelines for practice, and further implementation of the filial therapy programme. Carrying out this research was an enlightening experience for the researcher. The respondents, in this study, found the filial therapy programme to be effective in helping them gain a greater understanding of their children and the problems they may be experiencing. The programme outlined for them the importance of their active participation within the therapeutic process. By becoming more involved in the therapeutic process, through the filial therapy programme, parents were able to foster better parent-child relationships. The researcher is of the opinion that the overall purpose of this study was achieved through implementing this programme. The research findings give the researcher and social workers, in the field of family therapy, a clear understanding of the effectiveness of filial therapy as a method of helping families. The researcher urges all social workers to become aware of and equipped with the skills to carry out filial therapy in practice, as a trustworthy method of helping families. / Dr. E. Oliphant

Today most organizations define job responsibilities less clearly than they did in the past. Additionally, increasing emphasis on personal initiative, empowerment, and self-management places a higher burden on workers to control their own activities. As such, decisions about whether to perform discretionary helping tasks, such as requested favors, is an important issue that faces all working professionals as they try to balance the many divergent demands on their time. This dissertation focuses on how individuals make decisions regarding whether to agree to favor requests, defined as “discretionary, prosocial behavior that is performed in response to a specific, explicit request from one person to another,” in the workplace. I show favors—because they are externally requested—are phenomenologically distinct from in-role behaviors and voluntary helping behaviors. I examine favor requests from the perspective of the performer to identify the motivations that influence responses to favor requests. I consider how favor decision-making—both the factors that people consider as well as the decision outcome— changes across individuals and situations. The dissertation contains three papers that contribute to this goal. Paper 1 defines favors and favor requests, distinguishes them from other workplace helping behaviors, and proposes a framework of the motivational processes of favor request decisions. Paper 2 provides an empirical test of the motivational framework proposed in Paper 1. Paper 3 examines the relationship among helping context, comparing favors versus volunteerism, gender, and guilt proneness. Overall, this stream of research is intended to develop an understanding of how people behave when confronted with favor requests.

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The practicum consists of a study of methods of identifying and working with natural caregivers, based on previous descriptions in the literature of natural caregivers and their networks, presented in handbook format, and addressed to social service delivery people. Most of the natural helping literature describes natural helpers and natural helping networks, Little is available about the worker - helper relationship itself, about how to find natural helpers, and about how to develop and maintain relationships with them. It is this relationship between the worker and the natural helper that we studied and about which we have written.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1970.