This article reports the findings from in-depth qualitative interviews with 18 service providers who worked with families facing foreclosure. The interviews’ purpose was to better understand a broad range of families’ experiences and inductive coding focused on quotes that reflected the meaning of those experiences. The analysis extracted three main themes related to foreclosure representing threat: (a) foreclosure threatened children’s education, (b) foreclosure threatened family memories, and (c) foreclosure threatened clients’ sense of self and attaining the American Dream. Providers reported that families fought to keep their homes and hoped to buy again after foreclosure. The findings suggest that social work services could be beneficial in helping families navigate the emotional and financial impact of the foreclosure experience.
A classic explanation for the development of irreversibility of transfusion therapy in hemorrhagic shock has been the so-called ‘VDM’ theory, which postulates that ferritin (VDM) is released from the anoxic liver during shock and adversely affects the vasculature, leading to irreversibility. In the present experiment, several groups of dogs, subjected to standardized procedure for producing hemorrhagic shock, were treated with either antiferritin serum, purified ferritin, normal rabbit serum or saline. Neither vascular compensatory mechanisms nor survival rates were affected by any of the treatments. The experiment has thus failed to indicate that circulating ferritin is a major factor in the genesis of irreversible hemorrhagic shock, and it is concluded that ferritin is a concomitant and not a cause of irreversible hemorrhagic shock in dogs.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.