Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iv, 60 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-28).

Thesis (M.Th.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-90).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005. / Thesis directed by John G. Borkowski for the Department of Psychology. "July 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-44).

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-06-01T18:55:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Celia Mendes de Sousa.pdf: 1112765 bytes, checksum: c120510735266288b8fb36111eeaa8ce (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:55:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celia Mendes de Sousa.pdf: 1112765 bytes, checksum: c120510735266288b8fb36111eeaa8ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aimed to investigate violence against women as a risk factor for the development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its associations with the psychodynamics of these subjects. The participants were five women, aged over 18 years, victims of violence and attended at a Reference and Support Center for Women in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. At first, a questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic data, past history of the subject and crime (violence suffered). The other instruments used were: the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (QUESI), the Traumatic Stress Symptom Screening Instrument (Portuguese version of the Screen for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms - SPTSS) And the Thematic Apperception Test. For the development of the present study the qualitative descriptive combined with a quantitative analysis was carried out as a research method, based on the data obtained in the questionnaire and the scale. The results indicate that four of the five participants present symptoms compatible with the disorder, confirming the hypothesis that the violence committed against women contributes to the development of symptoms related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, evidencing itself as one of the risk factors For the occurrence of the disorder. The experience of the situation of violence in a chronic and / or prolonged way appears as aggravating in the appearance and maintenance of the symptoms; On the other hand, social support, favorable family history and perception of aggression as violence and crime are considered as protective factors in this condition. / Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar a violência contra a mulher como fator de risco para o desenvolvimento do Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) e suas associações com a psicodinâmica destes sujeitos. Os participantes foram cinco mulheres, com idade acima de 18 anos, vítimas de violência e atendidas em um Centro de Referência e Apoio à Mulher da região metropolitana de São Paulo. Num primeiro momento foi aplicado um questionário para coleta de dados sociodemográficos, história passada do sujeito e o crime (violência sofrida). Os demais instrumentos utilizados foram: o Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (Questionário Sobre Traumas na Infância (QUESI) – tradução para o português), o Instrumento de Rastreio para Sintomas de Estresse Pós-Traumático (versão em português do Screen for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms – SPTSS) e o Teste de Apercepção Temática. Para o desenvolvimento do presente estudo adotou-se como método de pesquisa o descritivo-qualitativo combinado a uma análise quantitativa, realizada a partir dos dados obtidos no questionário e na escala. Os resultados apontam que quatro das cinco participantes apresentam sintomas compatíveis com o transtorno, confirmando a hipótese de que a violência cometida contra a mulher contribui para o desenvolvimento de sintomas relativos ao Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático, evidenciando-se como um dos fatores de risco para a ocorrência do transtorno. A vivência da situação de violência de forma crônica e/ou prolongada aparece como agravante no surgimento e manutenção dos sintomas; por outro lado, o apoio social, histórico familiar favorável e percepção das agressões enquanto violência e crime são tidos como fatores protetivos nesta condição.

The present research investigated paternal filicide in South Africa. It aimed to understand the factors underlying fathers killing their child/children. Study one explored paternal filicidal offenders' processes of construction, construing of events leading to the filicide, and meanings of their lived experience of killing their child/children. Study two examined the filicidal offenders' extended families' construction processes, construing of events before the killing, lived experience and construing of filicide, and construing of the filicidal offenders' construing of the filicide. Four paternal filicidal offenders and nine family members of the offenders who had different backgrounds (i.e., age, racial, ethnicity, cultural, educational, occupational, and the nature of the filicide) were purposively sampled and recruited into the research. Personal construct theory (Kelly, 1955) underpinned this research. A semi-structured individual interview which was structured according to the Experience Cycle Methodology (ECM) interview proforma (Oades & Viney, 2012), Perceive Element Grid (PEG) (Procter, 2002), and the ABC model (Tschudi, 1977), were administered to the filicidal and family participants. Data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009) and personal construct analytic methods (diagnostic construct analysis, PEG, ECM, and the ABC model). The analysed themes suggest that filicide might co-occur with familicide and attempted suicide by the offender in some instances. While in many filicidal cases intimate/marital problems might be contributing factors, in a few cases filicide might be accidental in which it might not be precipitated by intimate/marital discord. Most filicidal offenders who tend to only construe their partners/wives and intimate/marital relationships in terms of positive construct poles might slot rattle when encountering invalidations of constructions. The encountered problems might trigger threat, anxiety, in which the problems are experienced as unconstruable, and anger which might lead to hostility. The filicidal offenders might lack constructions to deal with the issues which might result in unaddressed problems which might lead to a sense of being overwhelmed and feelings of hopelessness. The filicidal offenders might broaden or delimit their perceptual field or fluctuate between constriction and dilation to construe and cope with the situation. They might exceed their inhibition ability which might result in the avoided issues and inhibited feelings exploding in violence. The extended family members might not intervene in the couples' problems, if intervening might be possible, because of an unawareness of issues as a result of submergence and constriction in which they avoid construing the couples' problems, limit their views to issues, and minimise the seriousness of the construed problems. Psychological support, personal construct family therapy and Employee Assistance Program, might help the filicidal offenders cope with their intimate/marital problems, and therefore might prevent filicide. Considering the implications of the filicide on the offenders' identities, relations, and relationships, and also the relationships of their families, intervention programs such as Restorative Justice and sport might help the offenders re-establish their sense of self, find commonality and sociality while rebuilding the damaged relationships.

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Project (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008. / Abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-144, 40-47).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-158).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.