It should be noted that a pilot study was conducted before the main study. It was done on 40 cancer caregivers. Measures Demographic and clinical data were collected on the child’s gender and age, parents’ age, marital status and education, number of previous chemotherapies, and number of...
The chapter focuses on questions of early support and early intervention to children with developmental disability and its family. Within the context of early support, the term resilience has been explained. Resilience occurs when unfavourable and specific conditions of a child co-occur and interact ...
These included sex of the child (dichotomous variable); maternal age at birth; birthweight; gestation; maternal smoking in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy (binary yes/no); parity, defined as the number of times that the woman had given birth to a child with a gestational age of 24 weeks ...
school performance. Just as adults’ performance at work declines with increasing stress, children find it difficult to focus on schoolwork. Anytime a child’s grades are slipping significantly, it should be a red flag that alerts caring adults to explore what is going on in the child’s ...
Resilience has been found to have positive impacts on college students’ well-being and mental health. However, we still lack knowledge on how and und
If a child has already experienced some trauma, there areadditional techniques to try. The top priority is ensuring safety and reassuring the child that they are safe. Children also benefit from calm adults who try to maintain a normal routine as much as possible. It may be tempting to try...
Six months later, she grabbed my shoulder on a flight. She said: “When you explained the importance of wake-up times, I hated you. However, my husband and I have followed your plan. Our energy and our weekends have improved dramatically. Thank you”. Next, you must take care of the...
The suggestion is that resilience involves a complex interplay between physical determinants of health and psychological characteristics, such as self-esteem and self-compassion. It follows that cognitive behavioural strategies with a focus on self-management may, in part, contribute to the process of ...
“There were many who were traumatized. Some even suffered minor injuries to their bodies. There were those whose ears were deaf at that time. So, we… I thought about how we as teachers… what methods should we use so that this child can learn and be able to get rid of the trauma ...
The resilience of academics can be considered in the framework of Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) socioecological model of development (Ungar,2012; Ungar et al.,2013). Bronfenbrenner (1977) conceived of a child’s environment as a series of nested babushka dolls and defined human development “as the...