I have developed a proficiency in treating children with issues of attachment, loss, anxiety, depression, ADHD, Trauma, youth who have been in foster care or were adopted, youth struggling with their identity, juvenile offenders, those who self - injure and many different behavioral disorders and
the associated parenting difficulties.»
Not exact matches
The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act (2012) requires the Department of Education to develop and post on their websites guidelines and other relevant materials to inform and educate students participating in or desiring to participate in an athletic activity, their
parents and their coaches about the nature and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest, including the risks
associated with continuing to play or practice after experiencing one or more symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest, including fainting,
difficulty breathing, chest pains, dizziness and abnormal racing heart rate.
PCOS Awareness Association is an organization not just for women but men too because anyone can face the
difficulties associated with PCOS — whether it is a woman with PCOS - a woman who wants to learn more about it to play a part and raise awareness - a man trying to help his significant other -
parents helping their daughter and so on.
PCOS Awareness Association is an organization not just for women but men too because anyone can face the
difficulties associated with PCOS — whether it is a woman with PCOS - a woman who wants to learn more about it to play a part and raise awareness - a man trying to help his significant other -
parents helping their daughter and so on.
In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of
parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant
parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant
parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant
parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported
difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant
parents in
parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant
parents are
associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the
parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born
parents in Sweden showed that Somali
parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their
parenting behaviours.
These youth face
difficulties associated with frequent moves and separation from a
parent due to deployment or training.
Such limited investigation however, may in part be due to the
difficulties associated with population access, systematic sampling, cultural and language barriers, limited cross culturally validated measurement techniques, and wariness of
parents and participants to trust researchers (Richman, 1993; Silove, Sinnerbrink, Field, Manicavasagar & Steel, 1997).
The findings also suggested that PPCP is more effective for
parents of children with behaviour problems only, than it is for those whose children have behaviour problems and
associated developmental
difficulties.
Children whose
parents showed marital interaction patterns predictive of divorce externalizing
difficulties, but actual divorce / separation at Time 2 (3 years after the initial study) was not
associated with externalizing behaviors at time 2.
Nick, for someone who has seemingly had little
difficulty in accepting the term «Parental Alienation» as an all encompassing reference to the specific phenomena
associated with high conflict separation and ensuing alienation of one
parent from the child / ren, I am surprised at the extent to which these different terms and their meanings are freeing me to think more broadly and away from being confined to a more limited context and to limited categories of behaviours.
Trauma
associated with child abuse is increasingly disclosed as an underlying cause of relational or
parenting difficulties, with help often sought by the survivor's partner.
Third, we investigated whether interpersonal
difficulties during middle adolescence were
associated with risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after maladaptive
parenting or abuse during childhood or early adolescence was controlled statistically.
Parents must be careful not to disregard adolescents» real emotional
difficulties by assuming that these are due to physical or hormonal changes
associated with this period.
Results Maladaptive
parenting and childhood maltreatment were
associated with an elevated risk for interpersonal
difficulties during middle adolescence and for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after age, sex, psychiatric symptoms during childhood and early adolescence, and parental psychiatric symptoms were controlled statistically.
Conclusions Maladaptive
parenting and childhood maltreatment may be
associated with a risk for severe interpersonal
difficulties during adolescence.
It is therefore important that pediatricians and other service providers follow up on positive BITSEA scores, by engaging
parents in a dialogue about children's
difficulties (and strengths) and determining how much the reported behaviors interfere with children's developmental progress and families» day - to - day life (i.e., the extent to which these behaviors are
associated with impairment).
Third, a high level of interpersonal
difficulties during middle adolescence was significantly
associated with risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after maladaptive
parenting or abuse during childhood or early adolescence was controlled statistically (Table 4 and Figure 1).
Maladaptive
parenting and childhood maltreatment were
associated with an elevated risk for interpersonal
difficulties during middle adolescence and for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after age, sex, psychiatric symptoms during childhood and early adolescence, and parental psychiatric symptoms were controlled statistically.
For instance, disorganized attachments are
associated with severe disorders, depression, antisocial behaviors and adjustment problems and
difficulty in proper
parenting [5][6].
Specifically, negative emotional reactivity has been found to predict both internalizing problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule - breaking).1 Fearfulness predicts internalizing problems, and self - regulation
difficulties predict externalizing problems.1 The large literature on
parenting2 generally shows that high levels of warm and firm
parenting are
associated with positive child development.4
Universal programs, for example, may be more effective at reaching all low - income children than targeted programs, which often do not reach the entire population due to limited budgets,
difficulty identifying the target population, lack of awareness among
parents, or the stigma
associated with means - tested programs.
The past 20 years has seen a steady increase in the estimated prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in childhood and a recent UK estimate is 1.7 % with many preschool children receiving early diagnoses.1 Children with ASD often have
associated difficulties including hyperactivity, anxiety, hypersensitivity to sounds and materials, sleeping
difficulties, and emotional dysregulation.2 These behavioural problems present challenges for
parents.
These parental disorders influence children's behavior problems
associated with inconsistency, harsh discipline, impaired attachment and minimal supervision.17 While
parents of children with conduct disorder often have legal and social
difficulties of their own, they usually do not want their children to have a similar life course.
High levels of
parent - child conflict were strongly
associated with social, emotional and behavioural
difficulties.
For example, high levels of
parent - child conflict were strongly
associated with behavioural and emotional
difficulties, whereas joint mother - child activities and parental rules appeared more important for health behaviours.
Both MCS and GUS results suggest that
parenting is more strongly
associated with social, behavioural and emotional
difficulties than with general health, in terms of the greater number of significant associations between
parenting measures and
difficulties.
Mental health
difficulties were
associated with a mother's social characteristics (e.g. lone
parenting, low income and living in an area of deprivation) and with reported relationship
difficulties and poor social support
All aspects of
parenting were
associated with having moderate or severe
difficulties with most also
associated with general health and dental health (only mother - infant attachment and smacking were not).
Our review of the literature yielded only one finding that was inconsistent with the hypothesis that a reactive temperament is directly
associated with more adverse coparenting: Davis et al. (2009) reported a negative association between temperamental
difficulty (see above; father rating at 3.5 months) and observed undermining coparenting behavior (both
parents; r = −.33, p <.05).
Furthermore, paternal report of infant
difficulty at 3.5 months was
associated with a reduction of supportive coparenting behavior (both
parents) between 3.5 and 13 months.
Gregory (2007) argued that women who become
parents at relatively old ages may place less value on short - term
difficulties associated with becoming a
parent because they are more «ready» for parenthood and have been anticipating it more intently.
Furthermore, regarding the authentic functioning of the brain, when children are dealing with parental behaviors that are unresponsive and problematic, this problematic parental behavior dysregulates the integrated functioning of the child's brain systems so that the child produces disregulated emotional and behavioral displays (i.e., protest behavior) designed to elicit the involvement of the
parent to serve as a «regulating other» for the child in providing scaffolding support for the child's transition back into a regulated state, thereby building all of the neural networks
associated with the developmental challenge that the child had
difficulty independently mastering.
We dive right into a sensitive subject: the
difficulties that
parents face in the school system dealing with the «red tape» and paperwork that is
associated with a raising a special needs child.
For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly
associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and
parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional
difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often
associated with various social - demographic risks.
For instance, parental stress seems to be
associated to both anxiety and avoidance of attachment, because of the
difficulties they imply in coping with distress, but in different ways: more avoidant women attribute negative distress to a characteristic of the baby and not situational factors; more anxious women make more mistakes in recognizing fear and attribute distress to physical factors, then they could show an out of sync response to the babies» distress signs (Leerkes and Siepak, 2006; for a complete review of a social cognition approach to
parenting processes and behaviors, see: Jones et al., 2015a, b).
Child behavioural
difficulties in autism are, across all age ranges, from toddlerhood to young adulthood,
associated with
parent mental health
difficulties (Estes et al. 2013; Lecavalier et al. 2006; Peters - Scheffer et al. 2012) and our results replicate these findings.
(2) The second causal route is via
parenting difficulties associated with the occurrence of maternal depression.
Additionally, we asked whether a better emotional understanding in children would be
associated with less anxiety, fewer emotion regulation
difficulties, as well as more secure attachment relationships with
parents, as suggested, in theory, by the literature.
In addition, the increase in resistant and angry behaviour in children of this age, often described as «the terrible twos», has been
associated with
parenting difficulties (Belsky et al., 1996; Carter et al., 2004).
The Caregiver Strain Questionnaire, (CGSQ; Brannan, Heflinger, & Craig, 1997) developed for use in the Fort Bragg Evaluation Project (Bickman et al. 1995) is a 21 - item self - report measure that assesses adults» perceptions of
difficulties associated with their
parenting role.
In humans, overprotective
parenting is
associated with children's anxiety and
difficulties in coping with stressful social situations (Spokas and Heimberg, 2009; Gere et al., 2012), leading to opposite outcomes than supportive
parenting (Gottman et al., 1996).
Path analyses showed that perceived interparent conflict is
associated with avoidant, verbally aggressive, and for females, physically aggressive styles of conflict behavior with
parents, and that some of these subject -
parent conflict behavior styles are related to general relationship
difficulties.
In this large prospective study of UK two -
parent families, two measures of father involvement (positive
parenting beliefs at age 9 months and frequency of creative play at age 5 years) were
associated with lower risk of subsequent behaviour problems, assessed using the SDQ total
difficulties scale, in both boys and girls.
To determine whether
parent - training interventions are effective in reducing ADHD symptoms and
associated problems (e.g. disruptive behaviour disorders or child - specific impairments such as learning
difficulties) in children and young people aged 5 - 18 with ADHD, compared to controls with no
parent - training interventions.
A poorer outcome was
associated with: externalizing as opposed to emotional symptoms, reading
difficulties; living in a single -
parent or reconstituted family at baseline; and after exposure between Time 1 and Time 2 to parental separation, parental mental illness, child illness, and loss of a close friendship.