Changing the Family, by Warren M. Brodey, M.D. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (23 East 67th Street, New York, New York 10021), 1968, 160 pp., $6.00

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-648
Author(s):  
Graham B. Blaine
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
Main Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
The Family ◽  
Healthy Family ◽  
Family Living

This is a disorganized book, but I think it is purposely so. Dr. Brodey states at one point that the family therapist's main role is that of example, and the style of this volume is an example of the freedom of expression which the author feels is essential to healthy family living. Dr. Brodey believes that traditions and stereotypes destroy families and cause illness in family members. He emphasizes the importance of the here and now over the past and stresses the value of evolvement and constant change to adapt to changing circumstances and to individual growth.

scholarly journals The function of the social networks of families of hospitalized children

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita de Cássia Melão de Morais ◽  
Tania Vignuda de Souza ◽  
Isabel Cristina dos Santos Oliveira ◽  
Juliana Rezende Montenegro Medeiros de Moraes ◽  
Elena Araújo Martinez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Pediatric Hospitalization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Main Components

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the role of the social network configured by the family/companion and their implications for their stay during the hospitalization of the child in the pediatric hospitalization unit. Method: Qualitative study with ten family members/companions of hospitalized children. Data collection was done through the technique of individual interview, which occurred in the period from February to December 2015. The analysis was thematic, in light of the theoretical reference of "Social Networks" described by Lia Sanicola. Results and discussion: The main role of the social network was emotional and material support, and the main components of this network were: companion, mother, aunt and daughter, as well as nursing team, physician and other family members/companions. Final considerations and implications for the practice: It was verified that the totality of the interviewees was female, however, the husband was the most important member of the social network for the family members involved, since they perform the material/financial and emotional function. In addition, the participants consider that they are responsible for all care to the family and, in the condition in that they are, they understand it as a favor provided by the other members of the network. Identifying the composition of the social networks of family members/companions provides a better targeting of care in order to strengthen the social support received.

scholarly journals “A Girl of Business:” Calicia Allaire at the Howell Iron Works

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Mary Carroll Johansen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
York City ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Monmouth County ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Living

<p><em>Countering the prevailing trends of the antebellum era that separated home and office and thereby placed most women firmly outside the sphere of commerce, Calicia Tompkins Allaire, wife of ironworks owner James P. Allaire, served as her husband’s deputy, helping to oversee the Howell Iron Works and surrounding farms. While James lived mostly in New York City, Calicia helped to manage his businesses in Monmouth County in the 1840s and 1850s; to assess his employees’ character and actions; and to devise new ways for the struggling enterprises to earn money. Referring to his wife in a letter as “a girl of business,” James P. Allaire wrote that he counted on her to “have it done right.” The small scale of the Howell Works, its character as an iron plantation with the family living onsite, and James Allaire’s strained relationship with his adult children made Calicia Allaire the obvious choice to serve as his assistant.</em></p>

CLINICAL CONFERENCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1108-1111
Author(s):  
Heinz F. Eichenwald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sinus Tachycardia ◽  
Past History ◽  
White Male ◽  
Costal Margin ◽  
Lateral Aspect ◽  
York Hospital ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cough Syrup

Dr. Moore (Resident): E.P., a male born of Greek parentage, was 6 weeks of age at the time of his first admission to the New York Hospital. He had been well until 8 days prior to admission when he began to sneeze frequently, and his eyes began to water and his cry became hoarse. On the following day the family physician made a diagnosis of croup and prescribed tetracycline, 50 mg every 6 hours, nose drops, cough syrup and syrup of ipecac. Six days before admission an intermittent cough was noted. The patient's condition remained essentially unchanged until 2 days prior to admission when he became febrile, anorectic and developed a paroxysmal type of cough which occasionally terminated in vomiting. At this time penicillin, intramuscularly, was added to the regimen. He was admitted to the New York Hospital with the diagnosis of pneumonia. The past history, family history and review of systems were noncontributory. Physical examination revealed a well-nourished, white male with no evidence of respiratory distress. Rectal temperature was 39.3°C, apical pulse rate was 150/min, respirations were 30/min. There was no retraction on cyanosis. Examination of the ears was normal. There was a grayish-white, plaque-like, exudative lesion over the left lateral aspect of the soft palate. The pharynx was injected. Shotty lymphadenopathy was present in the cervical chains bilaterally. There was a sinus tachycardia with no cardiac murmurs audible. The lungs were clear to percussion and auscultation. The liver was palpable 1 to 2 cm below the costal margin. The spleen and kidneys were not palpable. The remainder of the examination was not remarkable.

scholarly journals The family accompaniment of persons with dementia seen through the lens of the capability approach

Dementia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Le Galès ◽  
Martine Bungener
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Person With Dementia ◽  
The Capability Approach

Using the capability approach initially developed by A Sen as a theoretical framework, this paper analyses both what people with dementia and their families do in response to difficulties in their daily life brought about by the disease, and the reasons they give for acting as they do. Individual and collective interviews and ethnographic observations with 15 persons with dementia and one or more of their family members were conducted. Follow-up interviews were possible for nine families. Results highlight a great diversity in ways of doing things and in accompaniment by family members. Daily adjustments are often hidden or minimized, at least at the onset of the dementia. Later, they become more frequent, repetitive and indispensable but remain influenced by the social and gender roles that existed prior to the illness. The inventiveness of families, in a context marked by various kinds of constraints, is primarily motivated by their desire to maintain the apparently intact abilities of the person with dementia but especially to preserve forms of liberty and what counted for the person, what that person valued before the disease. There are some ways of living with dementia, even when accompanied, which may long remain preferable to others, which better answer to the past and present aspirations of persons with dementia and the purposes of the accompanying persons. It is thus essential that health professionals, as well as society in general, recognize and address this issue.

The Comforter: Providing Personal Advice and Emotional Support to Generations in the Family

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn J. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Random Sample ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Social Correlates ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Personal Advice ◽  
Intergenerational Families

ABSTRACTThis paper presents a novel conceptualization of emotional support in intergenerational families. In a stratified random sample of 458 adults in Hamilton, Ontario, over half the respondents said that there was currently, or had been in the past, a person in their family to whom other family members turned for emotional support and personal advice. In the paper, this person is referred to as the “comforter.” Many people also identified the person who provided emotional support prior to the present comforter. On the basis of the data, a “position” of family comforter is inferred. The paper investigates the social correlates of the position, the type of activities associated with being the family comforter, and the pattern of succession as different generations in the family move in and out of the position. The paper demonstrates the family provision of emotional support at the level of the extended family. It is shown that occupancy, activities and succession of the comforter position are patterned by gender. Further, the data suggest that people seek emotional support from a generational peer.

scholarly journals Az elterelt fiatalok családi hátterének jellemzői Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyében

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Dóra Barabásné Kárpáti
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Drug Consumption ◽  
Family Problems ◽  
Individual Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Statistical Program

In the past 10-15 years, the consumption of illegal drugs has increased significantly both in Hungary and in our county. In parallel with the society's getting more and more open, the fulfilment of personal freedom, and the spreading of globalisation and individual culture, the use of drugs has become more and more accessible and acceptable to the young. This study briefly overviews the family background and problems of provincial young people consuming drugs. I have studied 3 problems within this topic: family structure, relations with parents, and family members' drug consumption behaviour. I suppose that family problems are connected with the interviewees' alcohol and other drug consumption. In my research I apply the Euroadad questionnaire. The sample covers 144 interviewees, 76.9% of whom have been "diverted" from jurisdiction. The other respondents have volunteered for the therapy.I have processed the data with the SPSS statistical program package. Having studied the respondents' family structure, I have found no significant difference regarding the co-habitation data for the past 30 days or the past year. The family members' alcohol and drug consumption bears a greater relation to the use of legal drugs than of prohibited ones. The family problems related to parents are connected to the young people's prohibited and legal drug consumption, and fathers play a particularly stressed role. The groups of party drug and amphetamine consumers struggle with more family problems than the groups of marijuana users.

TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS OF THE MALAR BONE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-499
Author(s):  
Forris E. Chick ◽  
Philip A. Printz ◽  
David Borak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Normal Development ◽  
Past History ◽  
Response To Therapy ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Outer Canthus ◽  
Tuberculous Osteomyelitis

The patient is a 6-year-old colored female, admitted to Seton Hospital on June 16, 1954. The past history was one of normal development and health with no significant illness. The family history was non-contributory. The child was well until May, 1953, when the mother noticed a slowly developing swelling along the infraorbital area and lateral to the left eye. A diagnosis of cellulitis of the left side of the face was made, presumably due to infection of the sinuses or the teeth. As there was no response to therapy, the mother brought the child to a clinic in New York in June, 1953, where the lesion was incised and drained. The incision was made about one-half inch below the outer canthus of the left eye. Because of non-closure and continued drainage for 4 months, the mother had the child admitted to a city hospital.

scholarly journals Flowering and Seed Production across the Lemnaceae

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 2733
Author(s):  
Paul Fourounjian ◽  
Janet Slovin ◽  
Joachim Messing
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Photosynthetic Apparatus ◽  
Fuel Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aseptic Culture ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hydroxyphenylacetic Acid ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Complete Protein ◽  
Media Supplementation

Plants in the family Lemnaceae are aquatic monocots and the smallest, simplest, and fastest growing angiosperms. Their small size, the smallest family member is 0.5 mm and the largest is 2.0 cm, as well as their diverse morphologies make these plants ideal for laboratory studies. Their rapid growth rate is partially due to the family’s neotenous lifestyle, where instead of maturing and producing flowers, the plants remain in a juvenile state and continuously bud asexually. Maturation and flowering in the wild are rare in most family members. To promote further research on these unique plants, we have optimized laboratory flowering protocols for 3 of the 5 genera: Spirodela; Lemna; and Wolffia in the Lemnaceae. Duckweeds were widely used in the past for research on flowering, hormone and amino acid biosynthesis, the photosynthetic apparatus, and phytoremediation due to their aqueous lifestyle and ease of aseptic culture. There is a recent renaissance in interest in growing these plants as non-lignified biomass sources for fuel production, and as a resource-efficient complete protein source. The genome sequences of several Lemnaceae family members have become available, providing a foundation for genetic improvement of these plants as crops. The protocols for maximizing flowering described herein are based on screens testing daylength, a variety of media, supplementation with salicylic acid or ethylenediamine-N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyphenylacetic acid) (EDDHA), as well as various culture vessels for effects on flowering of verified Lemnaceae strains available from the Rutgers Duckweed Stock Cooperative.

scholarly journals Perception of Family Functioning Among Relatives of Women Who Survived Breast Cancer: Gender Differences

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Gabrielli Biffi ◽  
Marli Vilela Mamede
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Know How ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
The Family ◽  
Healthy Family ◽  
Clear Communication

The aim of this study was to know how female and male family members perceive their family dynamics after breast cancer. Barnhill's proposal of a healthy family functional model served as the theoretical framework for this qualitative research. The data was obtained through interviews and submitted to content analysis. The results showed that, in the adaptation process to breast cancer, both genders use clear communication in order to achieve family balance and present interactions characterized by mutual and individual feelings. The responsibility for maintaining the family is attributed to the daughters, whereas the male elements show more disorganization with regard to family functions. The bond between family members of both genders who are affected by breast cancer shows important interactions in the identity process.

CLINICAL CONFERENCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 962-966
Author(s):  
Norman Kretchmer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Growth Retardation ◽  
Storage Disease ◽  
Inborn Errors ◽  
Private Physician ◽  
The Past ◽  
Male Sibling ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spontaneous Delivery

Dr. Kretchmer: For many years pediatricians have known a group of inherited diseases associated with specific biochemical defects. Actually, these diseases were first compiled and demonstrated by Sir Archibald Garrod approximately 50 years ago. The case we would like to present, one of cystinosis or cystine storage disease, is an example of one of the so-called inborn errors of metabolism. Patient B.F. was admitted to the New York Hospital with a chief complaint of growth retardation. She was the product of a normal, full-term, spontaneous delivery, and developed well until 2 years of age when growth retardation was noted. The child has photophobia and has always demonstrated polyuria. There has been no history of convulsions. The patient has been followed by a private physician for the past 2 years. The members of the family are indicated in Figure 1. There were three deaths, the maternal father who died of diabetes mellitus complicated with arteriosclerosis; and two siblings of the father, one who died of poliomyelitis and the other of pneumonia. The father and mother of the present patient are living and well, one sibling died last year at the age of 7 years of cystine storage disease, and an elder male sibling of 11 years is alive and well. The physical examination indicated a temperature of 37.7°C, a pulse of 100, respirations of 20, and a normal blood pressure. The patient is 92 cm tall and weighs 13.2 kg, and is a small, doll-like, pale, co-operative, bright girl. Also noted were the diminutive stature, haziness of the corneas, photophobia and polyuria.

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