Alternatives to parental alienation syndrome: Acknowledging the broader scope of children's
emotional difficulties during parental separation and divorce.
Garber, Benjamin D., Alternatives to Parental Alienation: Acknowledging the Broader Scope of Children's
Emotional Difficulties During Parental Separation and Divorce, New Hampshire Bar Journal, at 51 - 54 (1996).
However, he was hospitalized for
emotional difficulties during brief military service, and given large quantities of medicine and electroshock therapy.
With our experience and mediation background we feel confident that we can help you cope with
these emotional difficulties during and after your divorce is final.
Not exact matches
Also addressed are the many aspects of a woman's life — career, education, marriage, and a host of other factors — that may increase her stress
during the span of her childbearing years and make her especially susceptible to
emotional difficulties.
Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the
emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social,
emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural
difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19
PSI was founded in 1987 to increase awareness among public and professional communities about the
emotional difficulties that women can experience
during and after pregnancy.
«I believe that the connection established
during the nine months in utero is a profound connection, and it is my hypothesis that the severing of that connection in the original separation of the adopted child from the birth mother causes a primal or narcissistic wound, which affects the adoptee's sense of Self and often manifests in a sense of loss, basic mistrust, anxiety and depression,
emotional and / or behavioral problems, and
difficulties in relationships with significant others.»
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As a member of the board of the Brain Injury Association of Maine, Attorney Peter Thompson understands the physical,
emotional, and financial
difficulties that survivors of severe brain injuries face
during their long recovery.
During a study to demonstrate the negative effects of sleep deprivation in children, Corkum found that, ``... We were able to demonstrate that they actually had
difficulties with things like memory, paying attention,
emotional regulation; they actually changed how they viewed pictures — they tended to see things in a less positive light... We're really concerned because this is a period when their brains are developing and skills are developing, and the impact that might have on the developing child could potentially be even more problematic as an adult.»
Most parents wish to discuss parenting
difficulties and their child's social and
emotional development
during well - child visits.
For a further minority group,
difficulties are shown to develop
during this time particularly in relation to
emotional symptoms and peer problems.
Also, children whose mother developed health problems
during the observation period were at risk of social,
emotional and behavioural
difficulties and having multiple negative outcomes.
For example, birth cohort children from ethnic minority communities were more likely to have social,
emotional and behavioural
difficulties, as were children whose mother had low education, whereas child cohort children from families whose parents had split up
during the observation period were more likely to face multiple negative outcomes than those whose parents remained together.
Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural
difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure
during infancy go on to develop significant social and
emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.
These observed differences in neurological activity, consistent with the dual systems model, contribute to increased
emotional volatility and
difficulty with emotion regulation that increases
during adolescence, which ultimately manifests as increased risk for SUDs and comorbid psychopathology (e.g., [29 • •, 36]-RRB-.
Finally, considering mother — child interactions, it is possible to see how,
during T1, most of the mother — child dyads fell in the complicated zone of EA, indicating the presence of an
emotional connection but the existence of
difficulties as well.
Like the woman, also the man lives the pregnancy and the childbirth such as a phase of psychological restructuration and he confronts himself with his personal and family history.56 But, unlike the woman, the man does not experience an
emotional exchange with the child
during the pregnancy or after the childbirth and he establish the relation in the two months after the childbirth.57, 58 They experience important changes and they have more
difficulty to begin a good affective relationship with the child than the mothers that establish it after the childbirth.
From the perspective of the compensatory hypothesis (Nelson et al. 2009), it could also be that mothers try to protect their child from the negative consequences of being exposed to the psychological
difficulties of their partner by elaborating more on negative emotions
during parent — child discussions to increase children's
emotional understanding.