First, many studies have shown that parents
display dysfunctional parenting with their own child diagnosed with behavior problems, but display functional parenting when coupled with a child from another parent similarly diagnosed with behavior problems (e.g., Dumas 2005).
Not exact matches
Although
parents were from a community sample and the study was not conducted in a mental health care setting, divorce is a period in which
parenting stress is high, more
dysfunctional parenting is likely to be
displayed by both
parents, and the
parent — child relationship may suffer, as was outlined earlier.
Parents with an AD have been found to
display more
dysfunctional emotional reactions during interactions (Teetsel et al. 2014; Van der Bruggen et al. 2008), and this appears to hold for AD fathers with AD children in particular (Bögels et al. 2008; Hudson et al. 2008).