The Dominant Matriarch Syndrome

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (503) ◽  
pp. 1069-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Routine Procedure ◽  
Affected Child ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual

This is a clearly recognizable complex of internal family relationships which lies behind, and is an integral part of, the illness presentation pattern of one or more of the individual family members. It may explain many of the emotional problems experienced by children which are noted by either the School Doctors or the Child Guidance Clinics. It is routine procedure in such cases to interview the mother of the affected child, but it is not the practice to see any older generation. Only the family doctor is in a position to see the three generation complex involved.

Family Members as Caregivers of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

2016 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
Krishna Shailesh Vora
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities

Whenever you have an individual suffering from any disorder, whether emotional, behavioural or intellectual; the prime focus is almost always the individual experiencing it first hand. Often we tend to neglect the sacrifices or adjustments made by the family members. Caregiver stress is one of the phenomena explored here along with experiences of individual family members and the resources available to make it easier for them. Resources could be in terms of finances, emotional support, personality strengths or the society they live in. Another unlikely term explored over here is that of Caregiver Gain which is recently being given attention due to it. This chapter explores the unique experiences of parents, siblings, grandparents as well as support staff as caregivers of individuals with Intellectual Disabilites. We also have a look at traits that help cope with the caregiving process.

scholarly journals Pattern of interaction and relationships between family members

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Manar Alazzam ◽  
Mohammed Albashtawy ◽  
Maen Aljezawi ◽  
Abdul-Monim Batiha ◽  
Mazen Freij ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Global Understanding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Primary Unit ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Significant Data

Studying a family as a unit to describe the relationships in will allow the researcher to investigate the family as the primary unit and as a whole, which means that the family, the individuals as family members and their relationship is in the foreground. The data derived using this approach comes from the family unit functioning as a whole and does not reflect the individual members’ contributions “solely” or in a combined way. Such an approach allows for more global understanding of the issues surrounding family relationships as health and social data can be collected from different aspects and dimensions within the family as a unit and it will add more significant data. Even though studying a family as a unit eliminates the non-independence issue it does raise concerns about ignoring many potentially important details of intra-family relationships. In conclusion, the premise of studying the family as a unit (family as the unit of analysis) is that the researcher can gain greater insight into families in general and a family’s relationships in particular.

scholarly journals “TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region

2018 ◽  
Vol 618 ◽  
pp. A136 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Vilenius ◽  
J. Stansberry ◽  
T. Müller ◽  
M. Mueller ◽  
C. Kiss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Total Mass ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Far Infrared ◽  
Effective Diameter ◽  
Water Ice ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Geometric Albedo

Context. A group of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are dynamically related to the dwarf planet 136108 Haumea. Ten of them show strong indications of water ice on their surfaces, are assumed to have resulted from a collision, and are accepted as the only known TNO collisional family. Nineteen other dynamically similar objects lack water ice absorptions and are hypothesized to be dynamical interlopers. Aims. We have made observations to determine sizes and geometric albedos of six of the accepted Haumea family members and one dynamical interloper. Ten other dynamical interlopers have been measured by previous works. We compare the individual and statistical properties of the family members and interlopers, examining the size and albedo distributions of both groups. We also examine implications for the total mass of the family and their ejection velocities. Methods. We use far-infrared space-based telescopes to observe the target TNOs near their thermal peak and combine these data with optical magnitudes to derive sizes and albedos using radiometric techniques. Using measured and inferred sizes together with ejection velocities, we determine the power-law slope of ejection velocity as a function of effective diameter. Results. The detected Haumea family members have a diversity of geometric albedos ~0.3–0.8, which are higher than geometric albedos of dynamically similar objects without water ice. The median geometric albedo for accepted family members is pV = 0.48−0.18+0.28, compared to 0.08−0.05+0.07 for the dynamical interlopers. In the size range D = 175−300 km, the slope of the cumulative size distribution is q = 3.2−0.4+0.7 for accepted family members, steeper than the q = 2.0 ± 0.6 slope for the dynamical interlopers with D < 500 km. The total mass of Haumea’s moons and family members is 2.4% of Haumea’s mass. The ejection velocities required to emplace them on their current orbits show a dependence on diameter, with a power-law slope of 0.21–0.50.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUAL-TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONALITY OF CANDIDATES TO PARENTS IN SUBSTITUTE FAMILIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Vishtalenko ◽  
◽  
Emma Andreasyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Life Path ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Most researchers of socialization processes agree that the primary socialization carried out in the family is crucial. The phenomenon of the family was considered in terms of psychological, sociological, anthropological, philosophical, biological and cultural approaches. Now the question of surrogacy is being studied in terms of the psychology of the life path of the individual; as manifestations of the meaning of life, will, responsibility; as a world of the subjective, where is always something more. Many scientists pay attention to the methodology, organization, functioning of foster families; the problems of lifestyle of orphan children in general, and in particular – in a professionally foster family. Scientists have considered the motivation of the adopted child into the family and some socio-psychological characteristics of parents. However, there are almost no studies of some individual-typological features that dysfunctionally affect family relationships, although these features may be the reason for the denial of the family's ability to be a substitute. The relevance of the study is due to the need of supplement the structural and semantic components of the psychological diagnosis of potential parents in foster families. The empirical study was conducted on the basis of the Odessa Regional Center for Social Services for Families, Children and Youth, a territorial division of the Odessa Regional State Administration. In testing took a part about 30 applicants for foster parents. With the help of Individual-typological questionnaire LM Sobchyk (ITO) there was created an average statistical portrait of candidates for the role of parents in foster families. They are characterized by a high level of extraversion (48.6%); average level of rigidity (82.9%), aggression (54.3%), anxiety (82.9%), introversion (71.5%), lability (74.3%), sensitivity (62.9%), spontaneity (60%). All these qualities positively characterize all members of the sample and confirm their reliability as potential parents in foster families. These conclusions can be used by psychologists in the selection of candidates for the role of foster parents in foster families, as well as in psychological counseling.

scholarly journals Breaking the silence about illness and death: Potential effects of a pilot study of the family talk intervention when a parent with dependent children receives specialized palliative home care

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Megan Weber Falk ◽  
Rakel Eklund ◽  
Ulrika Kreicbergs ◽  
Anette Alvariza ◽  
Malin Lövgren
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Coping ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Palliative Home Care ◽  
Dependent Children ◽  
Palliative Care Setting ◽  
The Family

Abstract Objective The entire family is affected when a parent is severely ill. Parents often need and appreciate professional support when talking to children about illness and death. The family talk intervention (FTI) is family-centered and intends to promote communication about the illness and its consequences, support parenting to enhance family coping and help family members share experiences with each other to create a shared family history. This study aimed to explore potential effects of FTI in specialized palliative home care, as reported by parents. Method This pre-post test intervention pilot was conducted in specialized palliative home care. A convergent mixed-method design was used to analyze interview and questionnaire data. Twenty families with dependent children were recruited from two specialized palliative home care units in Stockholm, Sweden. Results Parents reported that family communication improved after participation in FTI as family members learned communication strategies that facilitated open sharing of thoughts and feelings. Increased open communication helped family members gain a better understanding of each other's perspectives. Parents reported that relationships with their partner and children had improved as they now shared several strategies for maintaining family relationships. Parents were also less worried following participation in FTI. The ill parents stated that they gained a sense of security and were less worried about the future. Significance of results This study adds to the evidence that FTI may be a useful intervention for families with dependent children and an ill parent in a palliative care setting. This trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT03119545.

scholarly journals Family Business Orientation: A literature review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aluisius Hery Pratono ◽  
Maria Felecia Cindy Hutomo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Orientation ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Business Orientation

This study aims to discuss the concept of family orientation by addressing the question of how individual family members relate to the family business. This study extends the previous works on entrepreneurial family orientation. Family orientation has five dimensions, such as tradition, trust, loyalty, stability, and interdependency.

scholarly journals The impact of forms of unemployment on the social conditions in the Palestinian society from the point of view of the Palestinian youth in the current period between 2015 – 2019: تأثير أشكال البطالة على الأوضاع الاجتماعية في المجتمع الفلسطيني من وجهة نظر الشباب الفلسطيني في الفترة الزمنية الحالية ما بين 2015 – 2019م

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelmajid Nayif Alawneh
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

    The research aims to study the impact of unemployment on the social conditions in the Palestinian society from the point of view of the unemployed youth, especially in the current time period (2019), the researcher used the descriptive analytical method, and the research community consists of young people in the governorate of Ramallah. The researcher used the questionnaire tool, and the data were analyzed by the analysis program (SPSS). It was found that the majority of youth are unemployed, they are middle age, single and large families, urban residents, people with specialties and low income. As for the results of the research, there was an increase in the impact of the forms of unemployment on the social conditions of the individual, family and society and their outlook towards the future, came the highest degree on the social conditions of the individual (6. 90%) and then the social conditions of the family (3. 83%), Followed by the societal conditions to reach the value (78%), came the lowest values ​​for the outlook for the future, which amounted to (67%). Some of the features of the impact of unemployment, including the tension, anxiety and frustration of the young group. As for the nature of the relationship between the variables of the study, there was a statistically significant relationship between the combined unemployment and the low income, between the apparent, persuasive and compulsory unemployment, and the individual, family and societal situations and the outlook for them. At the end of the research a number of recommendations were made, most notably the need to balance the types of education and activate the social and cultural role of the family.  

“A Fly in the Buttermilk”

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Chinyere K. Osuji
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
White Family ◽  
White Families ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Domestic Migration ◽  
White Couples ◽  
The Family

This chapter compares the discursive strategies that black-white couples and their families drew on to navigate the integration of black spouses into white extended families. White Carioca families engaged in more openly racist opposition, racist humor, and/or indirect insults to express discomfort with blacks marrying into the family. In an “irony of opposition,” past race-mixing in Carioca white families did not shield black spouses from these sentiments. This countered the myth of racial democracy in which color is not an impediment to interpersonal relationships. Nevertheless, Carioca respondents were less likely to report resistance in white families than Angelino couples. U.S. couples' higher rates of domestic migration resulted in less integration of black spouses into white family life than among Brazilian couples, whose tight-knit family relationships led to black spouses' greater incorporation. Los Angeles couples understood white family members as using the discourse of “expressing concerns” about the relationship, then moving to more overt discouragement of marrying black partners. Couples understood this “expressing concern” discourse as an attempt at social desirability on the part of white family members, emblematic of U.S. “color-blind” racism.This chapter shows how intermarriage can leave white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racial boundaries intact within the family.

scholarly journals Knowledge transfer and management among Malay traditional massage practitioners in the north of Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Norizan Esa ◽  
Salasiah Che Lah ◽  
Sakiinah Mahamad Hakimi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Traditional Healing ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

Local knowledge is knowledge transferred across generations by individuals or community through experience in the environment they live in. This includes the knowledge and practices that are still practiced by a community or individual. Apart from trust, the willingness and capacity to share what they know and use what they learn plays an important role for local knowledge to be transferred and managed. In Malaysia, traditional Malay massage is a form of traditional healing among the Malay society that was recorded since the 19th century through Kitab Tib manuscript. This form of healing uses natural resources, wafak (letters, numerals and diagrams), Quranic verses and doa (prayers and supplications) in the healing practice. This paper attempts to explore on how the knowledge is passed down from expert to apprentice. This study involves interviews and observation on selected Malay traditional massage practitioners. In conclusion, knowledge transfer among Malay traditional massage practitioners only happens when there is trust trust. Knowledge is passed down within their family members and learned from observation and experience. The traditional Malay massage remains only within the individual or a limited number within the family community rather than the community as a whole.

scholarly journals Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Cappellini ◽  
Vicki Harman ◽  
Alessandra Marilli ◽  
Elizabeth Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
And Control ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Emotional Effects

Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencing low or reduced incomes, we observe the ways in which they internalize intensive mothering discourses through a process of ethical self-formation. This mode of self-formation involves detailed self-surveillance and self-discipline and abnegation of their own needs in place of other individual family members, and the family as a whole. We find a series of contradictory emotional effects which generate both pride and self-worth but also stress and anxiety. We advance the theory that mothers operate within an optimistic affective regime to make sense of these contradictory effects and retain a sense of agency and control over their lives and those of their families. However, drawing on Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism, we argue that such affective regimes may be very pernicious in their effects, only serving to hold mothers in a relation that is ultimately impassable and often unfulfilling.

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