John Defrain
Biographic Data
| ID | 228171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Defrain |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Defrain |
| SIGNATURE | DEFRAIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Chinese Family Today
Implementing a Strengths-Based Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Worldwide
Spiritual Well-Being and Its Relationship to Resilience in Young People
Questions have arisen recently about the role of spiritual well-being in strengthening resilience of youth. To explore this association, this case study focused on the relationships and connectedness of young people who attend one religious organization as a means of enhancing their spiritual well-being. In line with the purposes of an instrumental case study, different sources of data (quantitative and qualitative) were collected on the phenomen…
Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Lati…
Couples in Great Marriages Who Considered Divorcing
This study used a strengths-based perspective to examine the experiences of 25 couples who self-identified as having great marriages yet had considered divorcing at some point during their marriage. Data for this study came from a larger qualitative study examining the multiple aspects of what makes marriages great. Various reasons were cited for considering divorce, including difficulties with communication, spending time apart for work or other…
When a Baby Dies
Stillbirth, or sudden intrauterine death, is in many ways an invisible death. A stillborn infant is one mature enough developmentally to have lived outside the womb but for some reason, or perhaps multiple reasons, was born dead. Stillborn infants are often demarcated from other types of child death and are rarely legitimized as a real loss. When a baby is stillborn, mothers, fathers, surviving siblings, and grandparents may struggle for years to…
The Process of Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
Strong Families Around the World
The family is one of society's oldest and most resilient institutions. Although the structure of the family may vary around the world, the value of family endures. Most of the research on families, historically speaking, has focused primarily on the problems or weaknesses of families. Over the past three decades, researchers have studied families from a strengths-based perspective. Around the world researchers have found that families are amazing…
Family Strengths and Challenges in the USA
Families in the United States are faced with many challenges both within the family and in the social environment. To balance this discussion of challenges, an exploration of how the strengths of families and couples—their positive abilities and attitudes toward life and each other—help to create an intimate family environment in which love, satisfaction, happiness, and comfort predominate. The discussion will focus on the work of two research te…
Epilogue
A positive and useful approach to conceptualizing families from a global perspective links family strengths, community strengths, and cultural strengths and demonstrates how families use these valued tools to meet the many challenges they face today in a difficult world. In this epilogue, we develop conceptual models from all three levels of strength from an analysis of the 18 countries discussed in this text, and two visual models are also prese…
Experiences of Chinese Families Affected by Aids via Blood Transfusion
Little research exists that explores families with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this exploratory multiple case study is to explore the experiences of five Chinese families affected by AIDS contracted during blood transfusions. Longitudinal qualitative data were collected from five families with a member who had contracted HIV from blood received during a medical procedure. Six themes emerged that represented the six stages experienced by our strong f…
Using Discourse Analysis to Explore Family Strengths
Family strengths research and the analysis of discourses were combined in this preliminary study of four families. Behaviours associated with three strength categories-positive communication, ability to cope with stress, and commitment-are identified. Ideas embedded in the participant families' descriptions of these strengths are discussed suggesting there may be a reflexive association of the dominant discourses and the construction of strengths…
Traumatic Childhood and Marriage
This exploratory, qualitative study of 84 adults who have survived and transcended a traumatic childhood describes the role their spouses played in the process of rising above their difficult childhood experiences. The participants talked about what they were looking for in a spouse, negative marriage experiences, and the positive role spousal support played in transcending the traumatic childhood. The study of their lives reveals important insig…
Chinese Adolescents' Decision-Making, Parent-Adolescent Communication and Relationships
The present study described Mainland Chinese adolescents’ decision-making, and examined the relationship among their decision-making involvement, parent-adolescent communication and relationship variables by using Structural Equation Modeling. Results demonstrated that Chinese parents appeared to be less authoritarian than the prevailing literature had described. Chinese adolescents experienced a passage of autonomy development similar to that of…
Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
After studying more than 2,500 pages of written testimony from 90 individuals describing how they believe they have survived and transcended a traumatic childhood, the researchers conclude that human beings are capable of healing from horrendous emotional wounds. However, the journey to health is a long and difficult one, and the early negative experiences appear to be woven into the individual's very soul, perhaps for as long as the person is al…
Rural Families in Transition in the 1990s
As a result of economic reforms and greater mobility, rural Chinese families are undergoing many changes. The issues of family structure, family planning, women's roles and support for the elderly will be discussed as a result of this qualitative study on a Chinese brigade
Building Family Strengths
Sex Roles and Personal Awareness
Androgynous Parents Tell Who They Are and What They Need
Who shall rear children? This may be crucial question young parents today are asking. In past question rarely came up; now, however, subject is open and cause for legitimate debate. For an apparently increasing number of parents, answer is, in effect, We both shall rear children! From birth on, these androgynous parents have set out to share the joys and sorrows of parenthood. In this paper, I would like to give reader some idea of who these pare…
Strong Families Around the World
The family is one of society's oldest and most resilient institutions. Although the structure of the family may vary around the world, the value of family endures. Most of the research on families, historically speaking, has focused primarily on the problems or weaknesses of families. Over the past three decades, researchers have studied families from a strengths-based perspective. Around the world researchers have found that families are amazing…
Chinese Adolescents' Decision-Making, Parent-Adolescent Communication and Relationships
The present study described Mainland Chinese adolescents’ decision-making, and examined the relationship among their decision-making involvement, parent-adolescent communication and relationship variables by using Structural Equation Modeling. Results demonstrated that Chinese parents appeared to be less authoritarian than the prevailing literature had described. Chinese adolescents experienced a passage of autonomy development similar to that of…
When a Baby Dies
Stillbirth, or sudden intrauterine death, is in many ways an invisible death. A stillborn infant is one mature enough developmentally to have lived outside the womb but for some reason, or perhaps multiple reasons, was born dead. Stillborn infants are often demarcated from other types of child death and are rarely legitimized as a real loss. When a baby is stillborn, mothers, fathers, surviving siblings, and grandparents may struggle for years to…
Epilogue
A positive and useful approach to conceptualizing families from a global perspective links family strengths, community strengths, and cultural strengths and demonstrates how families use these valued tools to meet the many challenges they face today in a difficult world. In this epilogue, we develop conceptual models from all three levels of strength from an analysis of the 18 countries discussed in this text, and two visual models are also prese…
Spiritual Well-Being and Its Relationship to Resilience in Young People
Questions have arisen recently about the role of spiritual well-being in strengthening resilience of youth. To explore this association, this case study focused on the relationships and connectedness of young people who attend one religious organization as a means of enhancing their spiritual well-being. In line with the purposes of an instrumental case study, different sources of data (quantitative and qualitative) were collected on the phenomen…
Implementing a Strengths-Based Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Worldwide
Couples in Great Marriages Who Considered Divorcing
This study used a strengths-based perspective to examine the experiences of 25 couples who self-identified as having great marriages yet had considered divorcing at some point during their marriage. Data for this study came from a larger qualitative study examining the multiple aspects of what makes marriages great. Various reasons were cited for considering divorce, including difficulties with communication, spending time apart for work or other…
Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
After studying more than 2,500 pages of written testimony from 90 individuals describing how they believe they have survived and transcended a traumatic childhood, the researchers conclude that human beings are capable of healing from horrendous emotional wounds. However, the journey to health is a long and difficult one, and the early negative experiences appear to be woven into the individual's very soul, perhaps for as long as the person is al…
Family Strengths and Challenges in the USA
Families in the United States are faced with many challenges both within the family and in the social environment. To balance this discussion of challenges, an exploration of how the strengths of families and couples—their positive abilities and attitudes toward life and each other—help to create an intimate family environment in which love, satisfaction, happiness, and comfort predominate. The discussion will focus on the work of two research te…
Rural Families in Transition in the 1990s
As a result of economic reforms and greater mobility, rural Chinese families are undergoing many changes. The issues of family structure, family planning, women's roles and support for the elderly will be discussed as a result of this qualitative study on a Chinese brigade
Androgynous Parents Tell Who They Are and What They Need
Who shall rear children? This may be crucial question young parents today are asking. In past question rarely came up; now, however, subject is open and cause for legitimate debate. For an apparently increasing number of parents, answer is, in effect, We both shall rear children! From birth on, these androgynous parents have set out to share the joys and sorrows of parenthood. In this paper, I would like to give reader some idea of who these pare…
Using Discourse Analysis to Explore Family Strengths
Family strengths research and the analysis of discourses were combined in this preliminary study of four families. Behaviours associated with three strength categories-positive communication, ability to cope with stress, and commitment-are identified. Ideas embedded in the participant families' descriptions of these strengths are discussed suggesting there may be a reflexive association of the dominant discourses and the construction of strengths…
Sex Roles and Personal Awareness
Androgynous Parents Tell Who They Are and What They Need
Who shall rear children? This may be crucial question young parents today are asking. In past question rarely came up; now, however, subject is open and cause for legitimate debate. For an apparently increasing number of parents, answer is, in effect, We both shall rear children! From birth on, these androgynous parents have set out to share the joys and sorrows of parenthood. In this paper, I would like to give reader some idea of who these pare…
Building Family Strengths
Rural Families in Transition in the 1990s
As a result of economic reforms and greater mobility, rural Chinese families are undergoing many changes. The issues of family structure, family planning, women's roles and support for the elderly will be discussed as a result of this qualitative study on a Chinese brigade
Surviving and Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
After studying more than 2,500 pages of written testimony from 90 individuals describing how they believe they have survived and transcended a traumatic childhood, the researchers conclude that human beings are capable of healing from horrendous emotional wounds. However, the journey to health is a long and difficult one, and the early negative experiences appear to be woven into the individual's very soul, perhaps for as long as the person is al…
Chinese Adolescents' Decision-Making, Parent-Adolescent Communication and Relationships
The present study described Mainland Chinese adolescents’ decision-making, and examined the relationship among their decision-making involvement, parent-adolescent communication and relationship variables by using Structural Equation Modeling. Results demonstrated that Chinese parents appeared to be less authoritarian than the prevailing literature had described. Chinese adolescents experienced a passage of autonomy development similar to that of…
Using Discourse Analysis to Explore Family Strengths
Family strengths research and the analysis of discourses were combined in this preliminary study of four families. Behaviours associated with three strength categories-positive communication, ability to cope with stress, and commitment-are identified. Ideas embedded in the participant families' descriptions of these strengths are discussed suggesting there may be a reflexive association of the dominant discourses and the construction of strengths…
Traumatic Childhood and Marriage
This exploratory, qualitative study of 84 adults who have survived and transcended a traumatic childhood describes the role their spouses played in the process of rising above their difficult childhood experiences. The participants talked about what they were looking for in a spouse, negative marriage experiences, and the positive role spousal support played in transcending the traumatic childhood. The study of their lives reveals important insig…
The Process of Transcending a Traumatic Childhood
Strong Families Around the World
The family is one of society's oldest and most resilient institutions. Although the structure of the family may vary around the world, the value of family endures. Most of the research on families, historically speaking, has focused primarily on the problems or weaknesses of families. Over the past three decades, researchers have studied families from a strengths-based perspective. Around the world researchers have found that families are amazing…
Family Strengths and Challenges in the USA
Families in the United States are faced with many challenges both within the family and in the social environment. To balance this discussion of challenges, an exploration of how the strengths of families and couples—their positive abilities and attitudes toward life and each other—help to create an intimate family environment in which love, satisfaction, happiness, and comfort predominate. The discussion will focus on the work of two research te…
Epilogue
A positive and useful approach to conceptualizing families from a global perspective links family strengths, community strengths, and cultural strengths and demonstrates how families use these valued tools to meet the many challenges they face today in a difficult world. In this epilogue, we develop conceptual models from all three levels of strength from an analysis of the 18 countries discussed in this text, and two visual models are also prese…
Experiences of Chinese Families Affected by Aids via Blood Transfusion
Little research exists that explores families with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this exploratory multiple case study is to explore the experiences of five Chinese families affected by AIDS contracted during blood transfusions. Longitudinal qualitative data were collected from five families with a member who had contracted HIV from blood received during a medical procedure. Six themes emerged that represented the six stages experienced by our strong f…
When a Baby Dies
Stillbirth, or sudden intrauterine death, is in many ways an invisible death. A stillborn infant is one mature enough developmentally to have lived outside the womb but for some reason, or perhaps multiple reasons, was born dead. Stillborn infants are often demarcated from other types of child death and are rarely legitimized as a real loss. When a baby is stillborn, mothers, fathers, surviving siblings, and grandparents may struggle for years to…
Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Lati…
Couples in Great Marriages Who Considered Divorcing
This study used a strengths-based perspective to examine the experiences of 25 couples who self-identified as having great marriages yet had considered divorcing at some point during their marriage. Data for this study came from a larger qualitative study examining the multiple aspects of what makes marriages great. Various reasons were cited for considering divorce, including difficulties with communication, spending time apart for work or other…
Spiritual Well-Being and Its Relationship to Resilience in Young People
Questions have arisen recently about the role of spiritual well-being in strengthening resilience of youth. To explore this association, this case study focused on the relationships and connectedness of young people who attend one religious organization as a means of enhancing their spiritual well-being. In line with the purposes of an instrumental case study, different sources of data (quantitative and qualitative) were collected on the phenomen…
Implementing a Strengths-Based Approach to Intimate Partner Violence Worldwide
The Chinese Family Today
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works)