Sentences with phrase «difficult child behavior problems»

Dr. Robert Field has helped thousands of families eliminate difficult child behavior problems.

Not exact matches

Because these other syndromes produce behaviors that are difficult to differentiate from RAD, many parents spend a great deal of time seeking proper diagnosis and treatment, not knowing what lies at the core of their child's problems.

Behavioral issues are complicated: there are so many factors to one's behavior (Ex: genetics, environment, individual personality, anxiety, developmental phases, trauma and / or adoption issues, medications, chemical imbalance) that it is difficult to pinpoint what one or more things contribute to any individual's problem and how to help your child.

Studies indicate that parenting classes can reduce your feelings of anger, guilt, and stress — particularly if your child has difficult behavior problems (Barlow et al 2014; Furlong et al 2012; Feinberg et al 2014).

The Cleveland schools administrator began her teaching career 24 years ago working with the families of children whose behavior problems made it difficult for them to attend traditional public schools.

They also discussed difficulty in supporting the development of these qualities in their young children due to problems dealing with the negative emotions and difficult behaviors that their children exhibited.

Night waking and related sleep problems have been associated with difficult temperaments and behavior problems among children12 — 17 and with poorer neurobehavioral functioning among older children.17 Parental stress and psychopathologic conditions have also been linked to sleep problems in early childhood.18 — 22

(They are often reclassified as abused or neglected or abandoned to meet the requirements of funding).28 Whatever the reason for their involvement with child welfare services — whether difficult child behavior or some measure of parental incapacity — the share of children involved with these services who have behavior problems is substantial.

Christine Buchanan, Eleanor Maccoby, and Sanford Dornbusch found that adolescents had fewer emotional and behavior problems following divorce if their mothers remarried than if they cohabited with a partner.31 Similarly, two studies of African American families found that children were better off in certain respects if they lived with stepfathers than with their mother's cohabiting partners.32 In contrast, Susan Brown found no significant differences between children in married and cohabiting stepfamilies.33 Although these data suggest that children may be better off if single mothers marry their partners rather than cohabit, the small number of studies on this topic makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

As a post hoc analysis, we examined associations of self - regulatory problems with coviewing practices to assess whether parents were taking a break from their difficult children by putting them in front of the TV more often, rather than the recommended practice of watching media together.26 In crude and adjusted models, self - regulatory problems at 9 months or persistent problems at 9 months and 2 years were not associated with any parental coviewing behaviors, such as watching TV with the child or talking to the child during TV viewing (data not shown).

But your child's behavior problems can make it difficult, even overwhelming, to manage these relationships and responsibilities.

Meds for children with behavior problems should be reserved for those that are extremely angry and aggressive; ones who are very difficult to handle.

I work with individuals and families struggling with myriad problems: depression, anxiety, mood disorders, difficult relationships, sexual abuse, trauma, child attachment / behavior disorders among others.

When a child is having behavior problems at home or at school, usually it is an indication that something difficult is happening in that child's life.

However groups did not differ on maternal distress on the ECBI or on the PSI Parenting Stress and Parent - Child Dysfunctional Interaction subscales, although, on the Difficult Child subscale, treatment mothers reported fewer problem behaviors.

Their children showed less emotional negativity and had significant reductions in difficult behaviors, especially those who had behavior problems prior to their parents» participation in the program.

Effectively, in several previous studies peer relationships have been found to moderate the effects of children's problematic attitudes (e.g., anxiety, aggression, and difficult temperament) on their behavior problems (Miller - Johnson et al., 2002; Dodge and Pettit, 2003; Gazelle and Ladd, 2003; Ladd and Troop - Gordon, 2003; Henricsson and Rydell, 2006).

This is the only program of its kind... created specifically to help with children ages 12 an older with difficult oppositional defiant behavior problems, such as those caused by ODD, ADHD, Asperger's syndrome, Bipolar Disorder and Autism.

Right now if you have a question or problem about ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or difficult child behavior, who can you ask?

Common reasons for seeking help include: feelings of depression or anxiety; difficulties with anger, hostility or violence; problems with alcohol or drug use; concern about a child's behavior; concern over relationship or communication issues; coming to terms with a difficult past; adjusting to stressful situations.

The current study extends previous work by examining the risk of family conflict experienced during early school years and difficult child temperament in a sample of LBW / PT children, with specific attention to the moderating role that child temperament plays in the relation between family conflict during this period and problem behavior at age 8 years.

The DF domain of the PSI - SF taps whether a child is easy versus difficult to manage, and has been linked to behavior problems in 2 - year - olds (Briggs - Gowan & Carter, 2007).

In a study of 145 preschool children, Tschann and colleagues (Tchann, Kaiser, Chesney, Alkon, & Boyce, 1996) found that children with a difficult temperament (e.g., negative mood, distractibility) in high - conflict families had higher levels of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems compared to children with less a difficult temperament or a less conflictual home.

Discussion LBW / PT children with a difficult temperament are more at risk for poor developmental outcomes, such as externalizing behavior problems, when exposed to family conflict than children with a less difficult temperament.