Anything that is experienced can become symbolic. In dysfunctional families symbols become fixed and rigid, thereby inhibiting growth" (Mitten & Connell 2007:2)
Challenges when a child has serious mental disabilities A scholarly article in the American Journal of Psychotherapy presents the issues that parents face when they have a child with serious mental disabilities. Families that have to deal with mental illness often experience "…disruption of the family's life cycle" and moreover, there is a profound sense of "isolation" for that family (Abrams, 2009, p
Having conversations to break the silence is tantamount to doing what the thesis of this paper suggests: there are remedies and there are solutions -- they simply need to be embraced. Relationship challenges between transsexual couples In the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing the author delves into the challenges that transsexual couples face on a daily basis, and they present a qualitative study that identifies specific relationship "…maintenance activities" that keep the couple together (Alegria, 2010, p
What concerns this paper is not necessarily the comparison between blacks and whites (although that is pertinent) but the communication issues within the black community vis-a-vis relationships and family. As background, the author uses existing research to show that in 1970, 64% of African-Americans were in married relationships; but by 2004, thirty-four years later, just 32% of African-Americans were in marriage relationships (Dixon, 2008, p
Youthful Latino married couples meet and beat challenges There is a research article referencing the challenges encountered by adolescent Latino mothers and fathers in the journal Issues in Mental Health Nursing; the article illustrates the way in which these families have developed strategies to get out of the cycle of violence that they had been in prior to matrimony. The author explains that Los Angeles area adolescent Latino females, once they have a child, develop a "…emotional attachment that positively influences parental behavior" and moreover, the child helps the mother "motivate behavioral change" (Lesser, et al
The reasons the authors offer for the difficulty that first-generation immigrant families are important to the issue of family communication. For example, because the care of children (often very young children) is high on the list of needs for families, the husband and wife must rely on each other for that child care given that there is generally an "…absence of close kin networks to support childcare" (Wall, et al
Challenges when a child has serious mental disabilities A scholarly article in the American Journal of Psychotherapy presents the issues that parents face when they have a child with serious mental disabilities. Families that have to deal with mental illness often experience "…disruption of the family's life cycle" and moreover, there is a profound sense of "isolation" for that family (Abrams, 2009, p
Having conversations to break the silence is tantamount to doing what the thesis of this paper suggests: there are remedies and there are solutions -- they simply need to be embraced. Relationship challenges between transsexual couples In the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing the author delves into the challenges that transsexual couples face on a daily basis, and they present a qualitative study that identifies specific relationship "…maintenance activities" that keep the couple together (Alegria, 2010, p
What concerns this paper is not necessarily the comparison between blacks and whites (although that is pertinent) but the communication issues within the black community vis-a-vis relationships and family. As background, the author uses existing research to show that in 1970, 64% of African-Americans were in married relationships; but by 2004, thirty-four years later, just 32% of African-Americans were in marriage relationships (Dixon, 2008, p
Youthful Latino married couples meet and beat challenges There is a research article referencing the challenges encountered by adolescent Latino mothers and fathers in the journal Issues in Mental Health Nursing; the article illustrates the way in which these families have developed strategies to get out of the cycle of violence that they had been in prior to matrimony. The author explains that Los Angeles area adolescent Latino females, once they have a child, develop a "…emotional attachment that positively influences parental behavior" and moreover, the child helps the mother "motivate behavioral change" (Lesser, et al
The reasons the authors offer for the difficulty that first-generation immigrant families are important to the issue of family communication. For example, because the care of children (often very young children) is high on the list of needs for families, the husband and wife must rely on each other for that child care given that there is generally an "…absence of close kin networks to support childcare" (Wall, et al
Decisions about tube feeding or other efforts to sustain patients with AD when the patient's quality of life is poor involve a close collaboration between the physician and the family. Sensitivity to caregivers' beliefs and reactions is vital (Barrett & Haley, 1996)
CGs are crucial for maintaining people affected with dementia in the community. (Brodaty et al
(Dupuis & Norris, 1997). Lastly I thought it important to add this article regarding the difficulties that care givers have in the decision making process when the patient/family member can no longer speak for themselves, (Cohen, 2004) reported that surrogate decision-makers, usually family and friends, are often called on to assist seniors who are incapable of making certain decisions
Moreover, research on care giving stress has largely analyzed whether stress increases, decreases, or remains the same after the institutionalization of a chronically impaired loved one; few studies examine whether continued involvement and care provision influence various measures of emotional stress, family conflict, or psychological well-being following NH placement. Research on physicians' attitudes and practices (Coon et al
Methods of this research included: Key words (caregiver, career, self-help groups, support groups, education, training, skills training, counseling, psychotherapy, intervention, and therapy) were used to search published literature in English for controlled studies of interventions for CGs of people with dementia and were each combined with the search terms "random allocation" and/or "control group" and "dementia." Nonetheless (Dupuis & Norris, 1997),report that although ones understanding of specific issues faced by community-based caregivers has been expanding rapidly over the past decade, very little is known about the perceptions, activities, and experiences of familial caregivers after placement of a relative into a long-term care facility
Because men do not live as long as women, they are likely to be cared for by their wives, but widows are more likely to be cared for by an adult child, who is usually a woman (78%). Data based on all reports to the registry during 1996 suggest that, with the exception of more married people and fewer Hispanic individuals, the random sample obtained for this study was representative of the entire registry population (Toseland et al
, 1999). This paper (Wenger, Scott, & Seddon, 2002) reported findings from the careers component of the Gwynedd Dementia Study