background and aims. tooth loss may lead to mastication disability, which in turn has important impact on individual’s quality of life. social and psychological factors have been shown to be associated with tooth loss. this study aimed to investigate the social determinants and prevalence of tooth loss, and presence of functional dentition among female heads of household under support of welfar...

objective: this project aimed to study early maladaptive schemas in adults with parents afflicted with schizophrenia. methods: in a causal-comparative study, a sample of 39 adults with one schizophrenic parent as the experiment group and 40 students without schizophrenic parents as the control group were selected. both groups completed early maladaptive schema questionnaire. descriptive statist...

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Rob and Norfor (1980) compared the outcomes of PET participants with population norms on the same measures and found that parents who had completed PET showed greater confidence in their ability as parents, were more aware of the influence of the environment on their children and had a more trusting relationship with them. They also found that those who were not very well informed about child r...

The Professional Foster Care Program is a pilot program designed to provide care and support to female youth, 13-17 with serious emotional and mental health needs through matching them with a foster care parent who is a paid professional employed by the foster care agency. The foster care parent, through undergoing specialized training also becomes the care coordinator for the youth. The foster...

Is this soap opera or science? It can be both, but in evolutionary biology it refers to the subtly different ways natural selection acts on genes expressed in parents and their offspring. To give a concrete example, consider a parent with two offspring: other things being equal, the parent is likely to be under natural selection to give equal amounts of food to each of its young. But natural se...