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The aim of this study was to examine the development of children's temporal orientation (present/future) concept and the stability of hopes, aspirations, and fears for school and occupation over a 1-yr period.
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Examined the development of children's temporal orientation (present/future) concept and the stability of hopes, aspirations, and fears for school and occupation over a 1-yr period. Ss were 104 4-9 yr olds in Northern Ireland. The results of the Future-Self Questionnaire and the "Me Tree" suggest that with age, children become more capable of expressing thoughts relative to more...
International Classification:
Other - temporal orientation (present/future) concept
Categories:
temporal orientation (present/future) concept
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Irish Journal of Psychology,
Vol: 21 Page: 227-236 2000
Amanda McCallion; Karen Trew
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This case report discusses a man charged with the offense of downloading child pornography from the Internet.
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This paper presents a case study of a man charged with the offense of downloading child pornography from the Internet. He had used the Internet to traffic child pornography, and, in addition, to locate children to abuse, to engage in inappropriate sexual communication with children, and to communicate with other pedophiles. Such offenses were facilitated by self-representing in Chat more...
International Classification:
Mental and behavioural disorders - Report
Categories:
child pornography
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Cyberpsychol Behav,
Vol: 4 Page: 597-608 October 2001
E. Quayle; M. Taylor
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The aim of this study was to assess child health, nutrition, cognitive stimulation, parenting skills, and maternal self-esteem following a Community Mothers Intervention Programme seven years earlier
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BACKGROUND: The Community Mothers Programme aims at using experienced volunteer mothers in disadvantaged areas to give support to first-time parents in rearing their children up to 1 year of age. The programme was evaluated by randomized controlled trial in 1990. METHODS: Seven years later, trial participants were interviewed about child health, nutrition, cognitive stimulation, more...
International Classification:
Evaluation of the effectiveness of community interventions of parenting skills
Categories:
community Mothers Intervention Programme
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
J Public Health Med,
Vol: 22 Page: 337-42 September 2000
Z. Johnson; B. Molloy; E. Scallan; P. Fitzpatrick; B. Rooney; T. Keegan; P. Byrne
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The aim of this study was to present part of a larger Grounded Theory study, designed to capture a sample of people's perceptions of living with or, caring for, individuals with depression
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This paper presents part of a larger Grounded Theory study, which was designed to capture a sample of people's perceptions of living with or, caring for, individuals with depression. Data were collected from a focus group consisting of people with depression (n = 7). In-depth one-to-one interviews were undertaken with eight further respondents (n = 8). Purposeful sampling was used more...
International Classification:
Focus groups - living with or, caring for, individuals with depression
Categories:
depression;
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs,
Vol: 14 Page: 393-402 June 2007
M. Feely; D. Sines; A. Long
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The aim of this study was to investigate child abuse prevention and to evaluate the effectiveness of the Stay Safe Programme in training unscreened 7 and 10 year old children in personal safety skills and impact of the programme on self-esteem
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OBJECTIVE: This child abuse prevention study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Stay Safe Programme in training unscreened 7 and 10 year old children in personal safety skills. Subsidiary aims were to evaluate the program's impact on children's self-esteem and parents' and teachers' knowledge and attitudes of relevance to child abuse and protection. METHOD: Changes in safety more...
International Classification:
Programme - Stay Safe Programme
Categories:
Stay Safe Programme; personal safety skills;
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child Abuse Negl,
Vol: 23 Page: 1307-25 December 1999
D. MacIntyre; A. Carr
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a school based safety skills program--The Stay Safe Programme--in facilitating the disclosure of sexual abuse among sexually victimized children and adolescents in Dublin
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a school based safety skills program--The Stay Safe Programme--in facilitating the disclosure of sexual abuse among sexually victimized children and adolescents in Dublin. METHOD: A Cohort of 145 children who had participated in the Stay Safe Programme prior to their referral to a sexual abuse assessment unit were compared more...
International Classification:
Sexual abuse - Stay Safe Programme
Categories:
Stay Safe Programme; -sexual abuse
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child Abuse Negl,
Vol: 23 Page: 1327-40 December 1999
D. MacIntyre; A. Carr
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The aim of this study was to examine whether maternal antenatal emotional attachment was associated with self-reported intent to harm the fetus
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OBJECTIVE: Maternal antenatal emotional attachment (MAEA) to the fetus has been proposed as an important factor for the emergence of harm to the unborn child. The present study investigated whether MAEA was associated with self-reported intent to harm the fetus. METHOD: Forty pregnant women, referred for psychological evaluation, completed a self-report measure of MAEA, the Millon more...
International Classification:
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium - maternal antenatal emotional attachment
Categories:
maternal antenatal emotional attachment
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Child Abuse Negl,
Vol: 23 Page: 1345-57 December 1999
P. H. Pollock; A. Percy
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The aim of this study was to describe outcomes associated with participation in a therapeutic recreation programme for children with chronic illness
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In recent years, specialised camping programmes, based largely on the premise of therapeutic recreation, have emerged as a form of intervention for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings. Although these programmes are proliferating, little systematic evaluation of their outcomes has been undertaken, particularly within a European context. The aim of this research was to more...
International Classification:
Other - chronic illness
Categories:
children with chronic illness
Geography:
International
Soc Sci Med,
Vol: 59 Page: 903-13 September 2004
G. Kiernan; M. Gormley; M. MacLachlan
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The aim of this study was to determine the opinion of parents regarding the psychosocial functioning of their child with cleft lip and/or palate and to identify predictors of psychosocial functioning
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OBJECTIVES: (1) to determine the opinion of parents regarding the psychosocial functioning of their child with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP); (2) to identify predictors of psychosocial functioning; and (3) to determine the level of agreement between children with CLP and their parents. Participants: One hundred twenty-nine parents of children with CLP and 96 parents of children without more...
International Classification:
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities - Cleft lip and/or palate
Categories:
cleft lip and/or palate; psychosocial functioning
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Cleft Palate Craniofac J,
Vol: 44 Page: 304-11 May 2007
O. Hunt; D. Burden; P. Hepper; M. Stevenson; C. Johnston
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The aim of this study was to profile the psychological and psychosocial characteristics of a group of Irish adolescents who had sexually abused other youngsters
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to profile the psychological and psychosocial characteristics of a group of Irish adolescents who had sexually abused other youngsters. METHOD: Levels of behavior problems, personal adjustment, anger management, and psychosocial adjustment were compared in 27 Irish adolescents with a history of sexually abusing another youngster (SA group), 20 clinical more...
International Classification:
Sexual abuse - psychological and psychosocial characteristics
Categories:
psychological and psychosocial characteristics; -adolescents who had sexually abused other youngsters
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Child Abuse Negl,
Vol: 26 Page: 349-70 April 2002
M. O'Halloran; A. Carr; G. O'Reilly; D. Sheerin; J. Cherry; R. Turner; R. Beckett; S. Brown
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This is an interdisciplinary discussion bringing grammar to bear on questions of self and identity in children in the linguistic constructionist tradition of theorists
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This is an interdisciplinary discussion bringing grammar to bear on questions of self and identity in children in the linguistic constructionist tradition of theorists like M. Bamberg, N. Budwig and D. I. Slobin, and in the spirit of theorists like J. S. Bruner and R. Harré who advocate the development and use of grammatical analysis as a research strategy in psychology. Psychology has more...
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Theory & Psychology,
Vol: 11 Page: 147-170 2001
Jean Quigley
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The aim of this study was to review macro indicators capable of providing a synthetic description of mental health status and the availability of psychiatric care in European countries
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BACKGROUND: This paper reports the findings of an analytical comparison of several macro indicators collected routinely from institutional sources in Europe. METHODS: We carried out a review of macro indicators capable of providing a synthetic description of mental health status and the availability of psychiatric care in European countries. These were collected routinely from sources more...
International Classification:
Mental and behavioural disorders - mental health status
Categories:
mental health status; psychiatric care
Geography:
International
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol,
Vol: 39 Page: 883-92 November 2004
M. G. Carta; V. Kovess; M. C. Hardoy; T. Brugha; T. Fryers; V. Lehtinen; M. Xavier
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This paper discusses the Relational frame theory: a post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Adv Child Dev Behav,
Vol: 28 Page: 101-38 2001
Y. Barnes-Holmes; S. C. Hayes; D. Barnes-Holmes; B. Roche
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The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between self concept and bullying behaviour
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The objective of this paper is to elucidate further an understanding of the relationship between self-concept and bullying behaviour. Data from a nationwide study of bullying behaviour carried out in Ireland during 1993-1994 have been reviewed. The relevant results from 8,249 school children (aged 8-18 yrs) are presented. The paper examines the global and dimensional nature of more...
International Classification:
Bullying
Categories:
self concept and bullying behaviour
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Aggressive Behavior,
Vol: 27 Page: 269-283 2001
M. O'Moore; C. Kirkham
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The aim of this study was to describe self-esteem norms for Irish young people
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Self-esteem scores from the Rosenberg Self-esteem scale collected from a large sample of Irish young people are presented as norms for this population. more...
International Classification:
Psychology - self-esteem
Categories:
self-esteem
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Psychol Rep,
Vol: 92 Page: 829-30 June 2003
S. Nic Gabhainn; E. Mullan
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The aim of this study was to determine the psychosocial effects of cleft lip and/or palate among children and young adults, compared with a control group of children and young adults without cleft lip and palate
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OBJECTIVE: A cross-sectional study was employed to determine the psychosocial effects of cleft lip and/or palate among children and young adults, compared with a control group of children and young adults without cleft lip and palate. PARTICIPANTS: The study comprised 160 children and young adults with cleft lip and/or palate and 113 children and young adults without cleft lip and/or more...
International Classification:
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities - Cleft lip and cleft palate - Cleft lip and/or palate
Categories:
psychosocial effects; -cleft lip and/or palate
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Cleft Palate Craniofac J,
Vol: 43 Page: 598-605 September 2006
O. Hunt; D. Burden; P. Hepper; M. Stevenson; C. Johnston
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This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a sibling support programme (Sibshops) involving three disability agencies in Cork, Ireland
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The study evaluates the effectiveness of a sibling support programme (Sibshops) involving three disability agencies in Cork, Ireland. Qualitative and quantitative data were obtained using semi-structured interviews and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale with siblings, together with parent feedback. Results from the Piers-Harris showed that there was no significant increase more...
International Classification:
Other - sibling support programme
Categories:
sibling support programme
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
J Intellect Disabil,
Vol: 9 Page: 43-57 March 2005
F. D'Arcy; J. Flynn; Y. McCarthy; C. O'Connor; E. Tierney
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The aim of this review was to examine the published scientific research on the psychosocial impact of cleft lip and palate among children and adults.
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This systematic review examined the published scientific research on the psychosocial impact of cleft lip and palate (CLP) among children and adults. The primary objective of the review was to determine whether having CLP places an individual at greater risk of psychosocial problems. Studies that examined the psychosocial functioning of children and adults with repaired non-syndromal more...
International Classification:
Systematic Review
Categories:
psychosocial impact of cleft lip and palate children and adults
Geography:
Northern Ireland
Eur J Orthod,
Vol: 27 Page: 274-85 June 2005
O. Hunt; D. Burden; P. Hepper; C. Johnston
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The aim of this study was to describe children undergoing spinal fusion for progressive and severe deformity
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Spinal deformity presenting early in childhood has a poor prognosis, in that progression is probable and severe respiratory compromise is a real possibility. Treatment is difficult, since these patients frequently do not respond to bracing, and surgery is sometimes performed in childhood in an attempt to control relentless progression. This carries the risk of continued deformation more...
International Classification:
Procedure - spinal fusion
Categories:
spinal fusion; severe deformity
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform,
Vol: 91 Page: 465-8 2002
C. J. Goldberg; D. P. Moore; E. E. Fogarty; F. E. Dowling
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The aim of this study was to examine who young people in Ireland and Slovenia regard as heroes
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Digital culture is becoming increasingly global and accessible. It is important to see how participation in the European Union (EU) global economic culture is changing young people's self-images. Representations of heroic figures in questionnaires given to Irish (n = 239) and Slovenian (n = 389) samples of 15-year-olds were examined to assess the extent to which heroes originated in more...
International Classification:
Other - young people's heroes
Categories:
young people's heroes
Geography:
International
Irish Journal of Psychology,
Vol: 26 Page: 137-148 2005
Hugh Gash; Barbara Bajd
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