by Lee Yuk Ying. / Thesis (M.S.W.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 151-158. / Acknowledgement --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- The concept of divorce and marital separation --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Emotional reactions of single parents at different phases of separation and divorce --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Problems of single parenthood --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- The differences between single fathers and single mothers in soliciting support --- p.18 / Chapter 2.5 --- Concept of mental health --- p.21 / Chapter 2.6 --- Concept of stress --- p.27 / Chapter 2.7 --- Concept of social support --- p.33 / Chapter 3. --- Conceptua1 Framework / Chapter 3.1 --- "Relations between mental health, stress and socia1 support" --- p.43 / Chapter 3.2 --- Research questions and hypotheses --- p.48 / Chapter 4. --- Research Methodology --- p.49 / Chapter 4.1 --- Design / Chapter 4.2 --- Samples / Chapter 4.3 --- Instruments used / Chapter 4.4 --- Procedures / Chapter 4.5 --- Data ana 1ysis / Chapter 5. --- Findings --Genera 1 Profi1e of the respondents --- p.57 / Chapter 6. --- Findings -- Stress and Mental Health conditions of the respondents --- p.72 / Chapter 7. --- Findings -- Perceived social support of the respondents --- p.82 / Chapter 8. --- "Findings-- Relations between stress, mental hea1th and social support" --- p.117 / Chapter 9. --- "Findings --Relationships between sex, stage of separation and stress, mental hea1th, social support" --- p.127 / Chapter 10. --- Conclusions --- p.135 / Chapter 11. --- Recommendations --- p.144 / Bibliography --- p.151 / Chapter Appendix A --- Questionnaire --- p.159 / Chapter Appendix B --- Questionnaire (Chinese version) --- p.187

Thesis (M.A.)--Briercrest Biblical Seminary, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100).

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Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-153).

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Clinical Psychology) in the Department of Psychology University of Zululand, South Africa, 2000. / Single parenting has become very common today due to having a child illegitimately, death of spouse, separation, and high rate of divorce. Single parent families are subject to many forms of economic and psychological stress. For example, they result in the creation of non-custodial parents, whose contact with their children is often irregular and unrewarding. The quality of interpersonal relationships with others makes the difference in coping or not coping during the first five years of being a single parent. An organization of single parents (self-help group) provides a support system responsive to the special problems of single parents, including discussion groups, which are responsive to the inadequacies in the ongoing lives of single parents, in promoting mental health. Self-help groups fall within the social action model of community psychology which aims to promote personal empowerment defined as the process of gaining influence over events and outcomes of importance to an individual or group. This model is a shift in intervention from prevention to empowerment and from needs to rights. The present research has been motivated by the World Health Organisation's 'target for all* document and the Ottawa Charter for action to achieve health for all by the year 2000 (presented at the first international conference on health promotion in November 1986). It has also been a motivation to note a commitment and emerging progress by health professionals and psychologists in mounting an array of health promotion and prevention programs. The aims of the study were to elicit needs from a group of single parents, form and evaluate an ongoing self-help group program and promote the following variables: psychological health, empowerment andparent effectiveness. It was hypothesized that the self-help group program for single parents will result in improvement of the mentioned variables. The researcher called for volunteers to join the group. Eight single parents committed themselves to be available for most sessions, seven of whom were females. The researcher made use of the following psychological techniques : biographical inventory, needs analysis questionnaire, global assessment of functioning scale, power maps, parenting skills rating scale, and program evaluation interview guide. In line with the social action model, this was a participatory action-research, program-evaluation type of design, where single parent co-researchers jointly defined the aims of their group, the themes to be discussed and the meanings of such variables as psychological health, empowerment and parent-effectiveness. The participants were pre- and post- tested on the above variables- The group ran for a contracted period of five weeks and the members met twice each week. The study realised its aims and the hypotheses were not rejected. The main strength of the research is that it encouraged community participation. The themes from sessions have been presented and analysed and it is evident that the study yielded positive results. It questioned the way the participants have been doing things and the reasons they did them. It led to them changing their attitudes toward their accustomed styles of parenting. This was interpreted as empowerment as they were gaining influence over events and outcomes of importance to them. The single parents self-help group empowered participants to be able to empower other single parents as the eight participants in the present research committed themselves to starting more groups of the same kind. In that way, they will be cascading the skills and knowledge they gained from the group. / National Research Fund (NRF)

Dissertation submitted to the Faculty Of Education in Fulfilment Of the Requirements for the Degree Of Master of Education in the Department of Philosophy of Education at the university of zululand, 1999. / The study on "an analysis of the educational role of single parents" was aimed at: * investigating the role of single parenthood in education. * investigating the educational role of single parents in and out of school. * establishing problems encountered by single parents in performing their educational role. * establishing the effects of single parenthood on the academic performance of children. * deterroining the extent to which single parents can be helped to improve their parenting skills. The above are some of the aims of this study which are stated in Chapter one. The method of investigation was described and major concepts were clarified in Chapter one. Chapter two discussed the family in relation to socialization and education. It also discussed the functions of the family and the family rektionships. Chapter three dealt with the impact that living in a single parent family had on the academic performance of children. Chapter four dealt with single parents' involvement in education. Chapter five dealt with the research technique, analysis, evaluation and interpretation of data gathered by means of questionnaires. Chapter six focused on the further statement of the programme of study, findings and conclusions, suggestions and recommendations. This study bas revealed that single parents are unable to adequately participate in their children's education mainly due to time and resource constraints. Issues related to child upbringing for lone parenting were a matter of concern. A plethora of pressures and challenges caused conflict and stress for single parents. Some of the recommendations are that schools should help single parents and their children by:- * encouraging single parents to organise their own single parents' groups at school through which parents can create their own support network, receive practical single parenting advice and share child care duties. * educating the public on the importance of accepting single parents. * organising single parents' family support and children's support groups on school's premises and linking these support groups with comrminity agencies that help single parent families in crises. * organising parenting education courses through Parent Teacher Association (PTA's) which offer child care, car pools or other transportation assistance, and a sliding fee or scholarship and fund for low-income single parents. * frequently reviewing children's progress with single parents through the telephone or in-person conferences. * providing single parents with the school's year plan so that parents can make prior arrangements with employers to attend some of the school's important activities/events. * opening therapy and counseling centres for single parents. * updating those single parents who are unable to attend parents meetings by making minutes for meetings available for them. * educating single parents on strategies of coping with stress and resolving conflict. The researcher hopes that future research suggested in chapter six will help reveal some of the important issues on single parenthood.

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