Sentences with phrase «adjustment problems in the family»

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Explaining the higher incidence of adjustment problems among children of divorce compared with those in two - parent families.

Explore basic personality structures in abusive relationships, the mechanisms and symptoms of the specific adjustment problem and its underlying causes and consequences to the individual, couple, and family

I have more than twenty five years experience in a full range of treatment programs providing services to clients, and their families; addressing the symptoms of mental illness, co-occurring substance abuse problems, personality disorders, legal issues and community adjustment problems.

Results showed significant improvements in substance use (both alcohol and drug), trauma - related symptoms, suicide risk, suicidal thoughts, social adjustment, family functioning, problem solving, depression, cognitions about substance use, and didactic knowledge related to the treatment.

In fact, among families high on conflict, divorced families, and «normal» families, the married and in conflict families showed more child adjustment problems than the divorced familieIn fact, among families high on conflict, divorced families, and «normal» families, the married and in conflict families showed more child adjustment problems than the divorced familiein conflict families showed more child adjustment problems than the divorced families.

I specialize in family and relationship problems, depression, anxiety, grief, adjustment issues and trauma.

Also experienced in all types of family and couples work, adoption adjustment work and attachment problems.

Because poverty predicts risk for school adjustment problems, low achievement, crime, and other problem behaviors, the effects of the full intervention on children from poor families were investigated using logistic and linear regression methods as appropriate, with terms for intervention and free lunch eligibility as main effects and an interaction term for intervention by participation in the free lunch program.

Variations by gender of child Several early influential studies found that boys in divorced families had more adjustment problems than did girls.34 Given that boys usually live with their mothers following family disruption, the loss of contact with the same - gender parent could account for such a difference.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

I have has extensive experience helping children and families resolve school problems, and with 28 years of experience in mental health counseling, I have the tools to help individuals and groups cope with anxiety, depression, conflict, stress management, and adjustment issues.»

Family structure — single motherhood in particular — has been identified in a number of studies as an important correlate of children's behavioural and social adjustment.18 Substance abuse, 19 genetic differences, 20 and exposure to early trauma21 are other possible factors that may account for the link between low family incomes and children's behavioural proFamily structure — single motherhood in particular — has been identified in a number of studies as an important correlate of children's behavioural and social adjustment.18 Substance abuse, 19 genetic differences, 20 and exposure to early trauma21 are other possible factors that may account for the link between low family incomes and children's behavioural profamily incomes and children's behavioural problems.

I am also a nationally certified school psychologist, with expertise in helping children and families with the management of developmental and neurobiological disorders, learning problems, behavioral concerns, and other adjustment issues.

Articles discuss issues in sibling relationships, including problem behavior; interactions with playmates and teachers; role of familism; links with individual adjustment; maternal perception of sibling negativity; transition to siblinghood; parental differential treatment; adjustment; adolescent substance use; conduct problems; delinquency training; risk to siblings in abusing families; adjustment to chronic disability; and antisocial behavior.

Results indicate for Study 1 significant improvements were shown in overall adjustment, family adjustment, relationship with parents, number of offenses, social competence, and number of problems at home.

Family therapy has proven effective in treating a number of emotional and adjustment problems.

Parental depression has extensive consequences on family life and on offspring social adjustment and mental health in childhood and in later life, depression and anxiety being the major psychiatric problems [5, 19, 39].

In fact, studies have shown that families where parents are not divorced but live with high conflict have more child adjustment problems than the divorced families with less conflict.

It is well established in the literature that conduct problems are multi-causally determined and reflect the aggregate effects of social, family (including genetic), individual, peer and other factors that act in combination to influence and determine levels of behavioral adjustment in childhood and adolescence.

Results indicated that adolescents in the intervention group improved key family, peer, and academic correlates of juvenile sexual offending and improved existing adjustment problems in individual family members.

Studies demonstrating the efficacy of PMT interventions show improvements in parental perceptions and parenting skills, improvements in children's social skills and school adjustment, and reductions in behaviour and attention problems.66, 67 PMT interventions are associated with large effect sizes, 68 the effects often generalize to a variety of home and community settings, 69,70 they are maintained over time, 71 and are associated with high levels of consumer satisfaction.72 PMT has been successfully used with two - biological - parent families, step - parents and single parents.

The aims of the project are to (1) develop a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems, (2) evaluate implementation feasibility and initial efficacy of the intervention in a pilot study, (3) develop and refine measurement methods for assessing Latino individual family processes, and (4) test an integrative theoretical model that hypothesizes how social and acculturation contexts, family stress processes, and parenting practices are linked to predict Latino youngster adjustment.

Because of the significant role that peer relationships and the school context play in normative development and adjustment to challenges that disrupt the family, problems with social functioning for siblings of children with cancer may be particularly detrimental.

This work has recently been extended by the adoption of a public health model for the delivery of parenting support with parents of younger children.9, 11,40 Various epidemiological surveys show that most parents concerned about their children's behaviour or adjustment do not receive professional assistance for these problems, and when they do, they typically consult family doctors or teachers who rarely have specialized training in parent consultation skills.10 Most of the family - based programmes targeting adolescents are only available to selective subpopulations of adolescents (those who have identified risk factors) and / or indicated subgroups of youth (those who already possess negative symptoms or detectable problems).

We focused on families living in high - risk neighborhoods, where rates of maternal depressive symptomatology and child adjustment problems occur at heightened levels, and where the quality of mother - child interactions and child emotion regulation skills maybe of particular importance in promoting adaptation (Dodge et al. 2005).

Our study also has key strengths: 1) analyses were based on a community sample and we were able to estimate the burden of behavioural problems associated with food insecurity among children in the general population, while most prior studies focused on high - risk families; 2) longitudinal follow - up of children's mental health allowed us to distinguish different types of symptoms and their developmental patterns over up to 7 years of follow - up; 3) statistical adjustment for multiple individual and family factors potentially associated with children's outcomes.

Findings are discussed in terms of family process models for relations between parental drinking and child adjustment problems.

The influence of conflict, marital problem solving, and parenting on children's adjustment in non-divorced, divorced and re-married families