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Drexel Library Quarterly, 1978
The Appalachian Adult Education Center defines coping skills, suggests ways to use the categories, lists subject areas under categories in which most adults need information to cope with everyday living: aging, children, community, education, family, free time, health, home, jobs, legal rights, money management, moving, religion, transportation,…
Descriptors: Adults, Coping, Information Needs, Skills
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Manning, Robert E.; Valliere, William A. – Journal of Leisure Research, 2001
Explored coping mechanisms in outdoor recreation in response to crowing and conflict, measuring perceived changes in amounts and types of recreation use occurring at one national park and the extent to which park visitors adopted coping mechanisms. People near the park adopted coping mechanisms at relatively high levels. Coping related to…
Descriptors: Coping, Crowding, Proximity, Recreational Activities
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Fabes, Richard A.; And Others – Family Relations, 1989
Identifies factors influencing complacent attitude of family professionals about their involvement in television education, policy, and research. Discusses implications for helping families cope with television and offers suggestions for intervention. Suggests family professionals reexamine their perceptions about television and family life.…
Descriptors: Coping, Family Life, Television Viewing
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Stroebe, Margaret – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1993
Challenges long-standing belief in importance of grief work for adjustment to bereavement. Examines claims made in theoretical formulations and principles of grief counseling and therapy concerning necessity of working through loss. Reviews empirical evidence and describes cross-cultural findings to document alternative patterns of coping with…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Coping, Counseling, Death
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Smith, Peter K.; Talamelli, Lorenzo; Cowie, Helen; Naylor, Paul; Chauhan, Preeti – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Background: Victims of school bullying are known to be at risk in peer relationships and to sometimes use ineffective coping strategies, but little previous research has examined differences among escaped victims, continuing victims and new victims. Aim: A follow-up design compared friendships, behavioural characteristics, victimisation…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Students, Coping, Bullying
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Balk, David E. – Death Studies, 2004
Herman Feifel noted that appropriate attention to one's mourning and grieving allowed the dead to die and the bereaved "to redefine and reintegrate oneself into life" (H. Feifel, 1977, p. 9). The author takes this central focus on bereavement outcomes as the springboard for an examination of the concept recovery following bereavement. He examines…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Grief, Student Evaluation, Coping
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James, Melissa; Warner, Sam – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2005
Deliberate self-harm represents a significant, yet it can be argued, a poorly theorized area of concern with respect to women who have learning disabilities particularly in the context of secure service provision. Utilizing ideas from social constructionism we explore how some ways of understanding dominate the professional literature and,…
Descriptors: Patients, Females, Coping, Learning Disabilities
Milburn, Kristine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Problem: An increasing number of high-achieving American high school students are enrolling in multiple Advanced Placement (AP) courses. As a result, high schools face a growing need to understand the impact of taking multiple AP courses concurrently on the social-emotional lives of high-achieving students. Procedures: This phenomenological…
Descriptors: High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Courses, High Achievement
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Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Bos, Karen; Bunkers, Kelley McCreery; Dobrova-Krol, Natasha A.; Engle, Patrice L.; Fox, Nathan A.; Gamer, Gary N.; Goldman, Philip; Groark, Christina J.; Greenberg, Aaron; Grotevant, Harold D.; Groza, Victor K.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Johnson, Dana E.; Juffer, Femmie; Kreppner, Jana M.; Le Mare, Lucy; McCall, Robert B.; Muhamedrahimov, Rifkat J.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Palacios, Jesus; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Tieman, Wendy; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Vorria, Panayiota; Zeanah, Charles H. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents. Chapters review (1) the development of children while institutional residents; (2) the development of postinstitutionalized children transitioned to family environments (i.e., adoption); the effects of institutionalization on (3) attachment behaviors, (4) physical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare, Young Children
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Merlone, Lynn; Moran, Dolores – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2008
Fifth grade students with learning disabilities receive a ten-week unit on learning styles and the special education process as part of their transition to the middle school. Developed by a learning center teacher and guidance counselor, the program is derived from the literature on self-determination and from the work of Mel Levine. The…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Coping, Self Advocacy, Grade 5
Lanctot, Jennifer Q.; Stockton, Michelle B.; Mzayek, Fawaz; Read, Mary; McDevitt-Murphy, Meghan; Ward, Kenneth – American Journal of Health Education, 2008
Background: Psychosocial stress maintains cigarette use and precipitates relapse, but little is known about how natural disasters in particular affect smoking. Purpose: To determine the feasibility of recruiting victims soon after a natural disaster for a survey study, and to assess the types and determinants of changes in smoking behavior…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Smoking, Coping, Stress Variables
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Dardar, T. Mayheart – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
The majority of the Houma people live in the southern portions of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes in south Louisiana. This author grew up in the Houma community that had formed in lower Plaquemines Parish, about thirty miles north of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Houma community there was centered near the town of Venice with extended…
Descriptors: Ecology, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Cultural Education
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Ezzedeen, Souha R.; Ritchey, Kristen Grossnickle – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
Little is known about the spousal support received by married executive women and the support behaviors that they value. This article details the results of a qualitative study of 20 senior and executive-level women, with the aim of understanding their received and valued spousal support. An inductive typology was developed through semistructured…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Employed Women, Spouses
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Place, Fiona – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2008
According to the medical profession the direction and scope of reproductive services such as IVF and pre-natal screening are based on solid evidence; the evidence indicates these are effective and safe services. Moreover, women want them. As a consequence these services are usually presented to the wider community in a positive light with images…
Descriptors: Females, Down Syndrome, Pregnancy, Mothers
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Holland, John – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2008
Scenes of public grieving such as followed the death of Princess Diana bear little resemblance to the "taboo" status of death and bereavement at an individual level. For schools and the support services with whom they work, responding to pupils' experiences of loss and death, especially of parents, is challenging. This paper draws on…
Descriptors: Grief, Foreign Countries, Coping, School Counseling
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