Behavioral differences in
aggressive children linked with neural mechanisms of emotion regulation
Not exact matches
When Jennifer Lansford and her colleagues tracked a group of
children for more than a decade, they found
links between spanking and
aggressive behavior problems, but the effect depended on how long parents used spanking as a disciplinary tactic.
The summary consisted of several sentences describing the
link between spanking and short - and long - term
child behavior problems, including
aggressive and delinquent acts, poor quality of parent -
child relationships and an increased risk of
child physical abuse.
Influenced further by epigenomes, these changes are
linked with impairment in the
child's ability to respond to future biological and environmental stress, and increase the risk for physical and mental health disease later in life.49 - 52 This emerging research underscores the need to develop and test prevention and early,
aggressive intervention strategies for
children who have been victims of serious physical abuse.
Some evidence supported a moderated
child by environment model in that relational adversity or advantage appeared to exacerbate or compensate for dysfunctions
linked with
aggressive dispositions.
Fact: «Research seeking explanations for the
links between divorce and the adverse outcomes experienced by some
children has found that: financial hardship and other family circumstances that pre-date, as well as follow, separation play an important part inlimiting
children's educational achievement; family conflict before, during and after separation is stressful for
children who may respond by becoming anxious,
aggressive or withdrawn; the ability of parents to recover from the distress associated with separation is important for
children's own ability to adjust.»
Results provide preliminary support both for the examination of
child responses to conflictual marital behavior and for expanding the conceptualization of conflictual marital behaviors to include depressive as well as the more traditionally examined
aggressive behaviors, in order to better understand the
link between conflictual marital behavior and
child depressive symptomatology.
Program Goals
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) is a preventive intervention designed to address two factors that put
children at risk for subsequent antisocial behavior and delinquency: 1)
aggressive and other at - risk social behaviors with teachers and peers at school and 2) certain parenting practices, including inconsistent discipline and lax supervision.
It is possible, therefore, as Manuck, Kaplan and Lotrich suggest, that it is this group of
children with a familial, biological predisposition towards antisocial and
aggressive behaviour that later comprise adult antisocial samples thereby offering a possible explanation for the general homogeneity of findings
linking serotonin and aggression in adults.
This result supports the idea that previously reported mixed findings regarding the relationship between serotonin and antisocial and
aggressive behaviour in
children may be
linked to variation in the levels of CU traits within and between samples.
Postintervention,
children in the
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) intervention group averaged 4.8
aggressive behaviors.
The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in
child, parents and others, to improve emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by
linking emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit
child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic behaviour through social stories, parent modelling, and role play; (d) increase emotional labelling and prosocial behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and increase
child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing
child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of
aggressive behaviours.