Sentences with phrase «high conflict family relationships»

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For example, teaching the play, Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles to high schoolers can be part of a unit on family relationships or intrapersonal conflict.

Kat specializes in working with high conflict families, creating child - centered, collaborative co-parenting agreements and helping families divide their asset and liabilities in ways that will minimize costs, preserve relationships and promote independence.

From the point of view of the children of separating families, the costs of conflict can include: impaired brain development; higher incidences of truancy and delinquency, alcohol and drug use and other maladaptive behaviours; higher levels of stress and psychological disorder; and, in their lives as adults, problems forming stable, trusting relationships and dispute resolution strategies modelled on their parents» approaches.

This series is for parents, grandparents and other family members and focuses on issues that arise in high - conflict separation, divorce, child custody and co-parenting disputes, and helps you with on - going relationship management with a high - conflict co-parent and with your children.

Bill Eddy and Megan Hunter are the co-founders of the High Conflict Institute, which is in its tenth year of educating professionals and individuals about methods for managing high - conflict relationships and situations, in families and at wHigh Conflict Institute, which is in its tenth year of educating professionals and individuals about methods for managing high - conflict relationships and situations, in families and Conflict Institute, which is in its tenth year of educating professionals and individuals about methods for managing high - conflict relationships and situations, in families and at whigh - conflict relationships and situations, in families and conflict relationships and situations, in families and at work.

The highest level is for parents of children with concurrent child behaviour problems and family dysfunction such as relationship conflict.

«I help women and couples get the support they need; from navigating individual transitions (high school / college, physical illness / injury, career, family / personal relationships) to couple dynamics and relationship issues (communication, premarital, family conflict).

A typical definition of specifically Child and Parental Alienation is: A family pattern most strikingly (but not only) found in the context of high conflict separations, where a child is shaped into totally rejecting the other parent and their tribe, even though the child previously had, and could still have, a safe and valued relationship with them.

Sustained family conflict can cause children to experience the kinds of problems that are usually attributed to divorce: low self - esteem, depression, high anxiety, difficulty forming relationships, deliquency and withdrawal from the world.

There is also substantive evidence from cohort studies that risk for depressive and anxious symptoms and substance abuse are predicted by poor parent - child relationships, high family conflict, poor family attachments, and detachment from family activities.

As a trained parenting coordinator, Stephanie helps high conflict families develop effective co-parenting relationships for the sake of their children.

High expressed emotion (e.g., an overly critical and / or overly involved relationship) has been associated with family conflict at home (Hibbs, Hamburger, Kruesi, & Lenane, 1993), marital difficulties, parental coldness toward a child (Stubbe, Zahner, Goldstein, & Leckman, 1993), disorganized attachment status in children (Jacobsen, Hibbs, & Ziegenhain, 2000), and symptom exacerbation in children of different ages (Hibbs et al., 1991; Schwartz, Dorer, Beardslee, Lavori, & Keller, 1990; Stubbe et al., 1993).

Both lone parent and couple families who experienced job loss were more likely to subsequently have a high level of home chaos, low income and high conflict in the parent - child relationship.

Families in which the mother developed a persistent limiting health problem were more likely to subsequently have a high level of home chaos, live in income poverty, experience poor maternal mental health and high conflict in the parent - child relationship.

Parents in families with higher adversity scores were less likely to have a warm relationship with their child, to share joint activities, to have low conflict and avoid smacking and to exercise control over their child's behaviour.

These global problems may, in fact, be associated with peer relationships, but there is little research that has investigated how children from families high in marital conflict are perceived socially by their peers and teachers and their level of acceptance in peer contexts.

Securely attached adolescents manage the transition to high school more successfully, enjoy more positive relationships and experience less conflict with family and peers than do insecurely attached adolescents (61 — 63).

I specialize in providing counseling and coaching for people in relationships with someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and people going through High - Conflict separation, divorce, contested custody or litigation in the family court system all over the country.

Importantly, they offer detailed suggestions, of how particular «types» of high conflict families can restructure their relationships to better insulate their children from the couple's personal difficulties.

In a recent book chapter entitled «Parental Alignments and Alienation Among Children of High Conflict Divorce,» Johnston and Roseby opined, «Rather than seeing this syndrome as being induced in the child by an alienating parent, as Gardner does, we propose that these «unholy alliances» are a later manifestation of the failed separation - individuation process in especially vulnerable children who have been exposed to disturbed family relationships during their early years» (10; p. 202).

Dr. Heather M Ehinger, a Marriage and Family therapist specializing in high conflict relationships also believes that these couples are trying to get their needs met in an ineffective way.

Trevor's expertise in relationships is built on her EFT training and her high conflict couples and step family work.

Parents are struggling to keep their families and relationships intact as well as protect their children from the psychological harm that is more likely to result from high conflict divorce.

Kat specializes in working with high conflict families, creating child - centered, collaborative co-parenting agreements and helping families divide their asset and liabilities in ways that will minimize costs, preserve relationships and promote independence.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23

Simple slope analyses as suggested by Aiken and West (1991) revealed that higher levels of temperament exacerbated the relationship between family conflict and child externalizing behavior.

Interestingly, however, the relationship between family conflict and parenting change was in the direction opposite of prediction, such that higher levels of family conflict at T1 were associated with more adaptive changes in parenting during the adolescent transition.

Health professionals and social workers offer notable support to families who are in high conflict to achieve agreement between parents and to decrease the effect of disruption on the quality of parent — child relationships during marital dissolution.

A high conflict, emotionally abusive parent, child, spouse or other relationship partner, regardless of the causation, is a challenge and we need to take appropriate steps for our own well - being and that of our family.

The present study examined associations of delinquency with: (1) the high and low activity alleles of MAOA - uVNTR, BDNF Val66Met, and 5 - HTTLPR genotypes; (2) two -, three -, and four - way interactions of each genotype with family conflict and sexual abuse; and (3) two -, three -, and four - way interactions of each of these genotypes with the child - parent relationship, adjusting for family conflict and sexual abuse.

Positive family relationships (high family cohesion and low family conflict), with IDDM especially during the first years of illness, indirectly related to good metabolic control (through positive adherence behaviors).

Participants from families with conflict (t = — 8.434, p < 0.001) and those who had experienced sexual abuse (t = — 6.796, p < 0.001) reported higher delinquency scores, whereas participants with a positive child - parent relationship reported lower delinquency scores (t = 6.668, p < 0.001).

On the other hand, the mediating role of problematic family - level relationships, such as low coparenting support and high conflict between the parents, has rarely been considered, although coparenting difficulties have been linked with both increased depressive symptoms in parents and increased symptoms in toddlers.