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Fall 2017
Former foster youth often experience an array of serious challenges during their young adult years. Problems such as homelessness, school drop-out, and mental health and drug problems have been attributed to the requirement that foster youth lose their supports from child welfare as they approach...
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Challenges and opportunities in graduate nursing education by distributed learning in Canada and Brazil.
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Silveira, D. T., Macdonald, M., Banister, E., Starzomski, R., Sheilds, L., Brown, M., Paskulin, G. L., Molzahn, A. E., Gamroth, L.
In this paper, the authors share their experience related to graduate nursing programs offered by distributed learning (DL) in Canada and Brazil. Although degrees offered by DL are often the subject of criticism, the authors' experience has been that learning outcomes have been very good....
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Exploring the cultural construction of children's play in Thailand: an action research study with the Foundation for Child Development
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Children’s play has emerged as a global discourse (Fleer, 2009). Studies from diverse theoretical traditions have examined the role of play in child development; however, the dominant discourse of play has largely privileged Western European-heritage cultural practices, and as a result childhood...
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Is "treat your child normally" helpful advice for parents of survivors of treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
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Williamson, Deanna L., Rempel, Gwen R., Harrison, Margaret J.
BACKGROUND: Developing technology affords children with complex congenitally malformed hearts a chance for survival. Parents gratefully pursue life-saving options on behalf of their children, despite the risks to the life of their child, and uncertainty about outcomes. Little is known about how...