Sentences with phrase «family characteristics relating»

The Family Relationship Index of the FES was used to assess family characteristics relating to social and environmental domains, specifically the level of cohesion, expression, and conflict within the family unit (Moos and Moos 1986).

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The number of family therapies which place high value on the role of creativity and related characteristics for diagnosis, assessment, and therapy, as well as for its goals, is striking (DA).

These dramatic changes are made all the more significant by the ways in which family composition appears to be related to important social, behavioral, and economic characteristics.

«Our hope is that by identifying these stress - buffering qualities we may be able to tailor clinical interventions for families in a way that affords them the opportunity to strengthen these personal characteristics and responses,» said Alessandri, clinical professor of psychology at UM and executive director of the UM - NSU Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD).

Dating in an orthodox Jewish family involves matters relating to the religious affiliations, the level of Judaism practiced, certain level of education and background and having similar characteristics.

Existing research has examined the role that school quality plays in families» school choices, but because boundary participation rates diverge based on location, it is possible that school enrollment patterns are related to neighborhood characteristics.

Assists state and local education and health agencies in monitoring and assessing characteristics of school health education; physical education; school health policies related to HIV infection / AIDS, tobacco - use prevention, and nutrition; asthma management activities; and family and community involvement in school health programs.

National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation Examines child and family well - being outcomes in detail and seeks to relate those outcomes to their experience with the child welfare system and to family characteristics, community environment, and other factors.

Child factors, foster family characteristics and factors related to the biological environment can accelerate breakdown.

Despite the efficacy of medication to reduce ADHD symptoms, 10 medication initiation is variable, 1 and medication continuity is poor because many children stop taking medicine and / or have extended gaps in medication supply.11, 12 Although studies have identified child characteristics (eg, age, race) 11 — 16 and medication management factors (eg, dosing regimen) 11, 16 related to medication continuity, factors that influence family decision - making have not been fully elucidated.

alternatives for families - cognitive behavioral therapy (AF - CBT) An evidence - supported intervention that targets (1) diverse individual child and caregiver characteristics related to conflict and coercion in the home and (2) the family context in which aggression or abuse may occur.

Depending on how well grounded a model is, either in specific or related research, we need to apply appropriate weight to that research and compare how well the characteristics of a particular family fit that model.»

There were significant associations (p < 0.05) between sports club participation and: all demographic characteristics; all measures of family and peer support; and access to sport - related facilities.

Traditionally, many researchers defined family stability in terms of factors related to family structure (for example, single parenthood).3 Specifically addressing the experiences of foster children, other scholars have defined stability as limited movement from home to home.4 However, exploring the various family processes that pertain to stability may be a more useful means of understanding the specific characteristics of family stability that support healthy child development.

Research related to optimal youth development has begun to delineate critical dimensions of important social contexts.8 — 11 For example, some researchers propose 3 basic experiences (ie, connection, regulation, and autonomy) to define youth's main associations with their environment that can be measured across multiple settings.8, 12,13 Others have articulated similar concepts and expanded the number of dimensions to include characteristics, such as adequate nutrition, health, and shelter; physical and psychological safety; adequate and appropriate supervision and motivation; supportive relationships; support for efficacy and opportunities for skill building; and integration of family, school, and community efforts.10, 11

The quality of the early care and education children receive in family child care homes: how we define quality in family child care homes, the observed quality of family child care, which characteristics of homes and providers are related to quality;

This section examines the effect of adverse family events from pre-school age onwards, additional child characteristics related to physical and mental health, and aspects of parenting and family climate.

Factors which were found to be significantly related to lower cognitive scores included maternal characteristics (low maternal educational attainment and younger age) and socio - economic factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early years).

How do outcomes relate to variations in child and family characteristics and services provided?

For these four subgroups, SRI identified variables related to child characteristics and child outcomes, as well as family and program factors that mediate between the two.

Mental health professionals working with this «special population» of children and families require specialized professional knowledge, training, and expertise related to narcissistic and borderline personality characteristics and dynamics so that they may be alert for the profound distortions of truth and reality associated with narcissistic / borderline personality processes.

Describes the characteristics and benefits of AF - CBT, an evidence - supported intervention that targets (1) diverse individual child and caregiver characteristics related to conflict and intimidation in the home and (2) the family context in which aggression or abuse may occur.

Given the critical importance of treatment adherence to the long - term survival of individuals with CF, and given the characteristic decrease in treatment adherence observed across the adolescent period (Quittner et al., 2000; Ricker et al., 1998), the current findings offer promising avenues for future research on both the benefits and risks of peer relationships for youth with CF. Furthermore, health - related quality of life increasingly has been recognized as a critical element of patient and family - reported outcomes among youth with chronic illness (Quittner et al., 2008), and the current findings continue to build on this growing body of literature for youth with CF.

Second, partner depressive affect and anxiety will be related to the same characteristics reported earlier for patients: disease impact and family level variables.

Parenting stress is a complex construct that involves a combination of child and parent characteristics, as well as family situational components related to a person's appraisal of his or her role as a parent (Everly & Lating, 2004).

However, other HIV - related health factors, traditional background characteristics, and psychosocial measures (e.g., HIV stigma, parenting stress, family environment) failed to indicate who was most vulnerable.

Previous studies have found that individual and family environment characteristics have links to children's health - related QOL (Grey et al., 1998; Valenzuela et al., 2006).

Given the ramifications of difficulties related to externalizing behavior problems, the present study examined the relationships among adolescents» externalizing behavior problems, characteristics of adolescents» families, their perceived neighborhood support, and their acculturation.

In a review of relevant research, Repetti, Taylor, and Seeman [18] concluded that positive parental and family environmental characteristics are positively related to indicators of children's social development, and vice versa.

Diabetes - related characteristics included: age at onset of type 1 diabetes, diabetes duration, insulin regimen, insulin adherence, dietary adherence and blood glucose monitoring (BGM) adherence, regularity of clinic visits and family involvement in diabetes related tasks (insulin injection and blood glucose monitoring).

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to identify how school factors were related to perpetration of dating violence among adolescents; and (2) to assess how these factors may reduce or exacerbate the relationship between parental domestic violence and adolescents» perpetration of dating violence, while accounting for individual and family characteristics from early adolescence.