OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to measure the level of vicarious trauma, posttraumatic growth (PTG), and other factors affecting PTG among child protective service workers. METHODS We include posttraumatic stress, social support, stress coping, and demographic data as independent variables. Data was collected from 255 full-time social workers from 43 child protective agencies as acomplete...

Attitudes towards information sharing in donor conception have changed in recent years in some parts of the world, with a move towards openness. This study follows up a sample of embryo donation mothers, examining their current disclosure patterns and comparing them with adoptive and IVF mothers to investigate any influence of the method of family creation. This study compared 17 mothers with a...

Breastfeeding an adopted child has previously been discussed as something that is nice to do but without potential for significant benefit. This paper reviews the evidence in physiological and behavioural research, that breastfeeding can play a significant role in developing the attachment relationship between child and mother. As illustrated in the case studies presented, in instances of adopt...

This investigation examined the mutual influences between structured parenting and child social wariness during toddlerhood using a longitudinal adoption design. The sample consisted of 361 adoption-linked families, each including an adopted child, adoptive parents, and a birth mother. Heightened social wariness in children at age 18 months predicted reduced levels of observed structured parent...

Shirley, M.D., Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Child Psychiatry Unit, Stanford University School of Medicine. N.Y. Commonwealth Fund. Oxford University Press. 25s. This is an eminently competent and satisfactory book which should prove very useful to students, paediatricians and practitioners desirous of becoming familiar with the principles of ch...

Mother-child relationship has not received sufficient attention from scholars in studying Louise Edrich’s works, but the mother plays a vital role children’s identity search. This paper aims to find out mother-child Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. Close reading is applied research, and American native traditions customs are adopted analysis. The finds that children go through process of choosing...

In order to reduce the cost of childcare and increase citizens' motivation have children, Resolution Standing Committee Jinan People's Congress on Promoting Construction Child-Friendly Cities was adopted in August 2022, proposing construction child-friendly cities context Jinan's reality. This paper explores issue how accelerate transformation public spaces City. Based theory city scene theory,...

TOPIC Optimizing caregiving for newly adopted postinstitutionalized children. PURPOSE To consider a template of care for postinstitutionalized children based on experiences that physiological measures suggest are expected by infants postbirth. SOURCES Published literature and clinical experience. CONCLUSION Based on an understanding of physiologically expected care postbirth, special care...

In this paper, we apply the ideas from [2] to investigate the effect of some semantic based guidance to the crossover operator of GP. We conduct a series of experiments on a family of real-valued symbolic regression problems, examining four different semantic aware crossover operators. One operator considers the semantics of the exchanged subtrees, while the other compares the semantics of the ...