Not exact matches
A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers
on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based
on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky
adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can
also influence children's cognitive
development.35
I
also recieved a Master's Certificate in Women's Studies and completed research
on the
development of
adolescent girls.
Dr. Anderer's areas of expertise focus
on students who are both intellectually gifted and who
also have specific learning disabilities, therapeutic assessment, parenting, and
adolescent development.
It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending
on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of
Adolescent Behavioral
Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and
Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are
also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.
Rizzo is
also interested in the influence of mood and behavioral disorders
on the
development of unhealthy dating relationships during the
adolescent years.
Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the
adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic
adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult
development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the
development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing
on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study
also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.
A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers
on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based
on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky
adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can
also influence children's cognitive
development.35
Besides the positive effects of peer relationships
on adolescent psychological adjustment, many studies have shown that peers may
also impair
adolescent development.
Our focus
on physical aggression
also limits our understanding of the
development of other types of aggressive behavior that were not analyzed in the current study, such as social and relational aggression, which may be more prominent among
adolescent girls.
The exploration into mother's problems and child well - being is
also truncated by an emphasis
on early child
development or
adolescents.