Neither of the subscales of relationship quality
measured by adolescent report shortly after the child's birth predicted parenting at 6 months.
The quality of the adolescent mother - grandmother relationship,
measured by adolescent report (two factors from NRI) and observations of mother - grandmother interaction (four factors from SIRQ), was entered on step 5 in a stepwise fashion.
Not exact matches
Coached
by District 13's President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore) and former gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in his final role), Katniss has played the part extraordinarily well, delivering empowering speeches and exposing the unconscionable
measures taken
by the totalitarian government that gave them
adolescent death competitions as reality television.
Whether
by school, parents or a university body, we are watched,
measured and assessed for almost all of our
adolescent lives.
However, studies of this association in children and
adolescents are often restricted
by the use of global
measures of mental health problems and aggregation of SES - indicators.
We report on the development of the evidence base
by examining the ACE survey scores in relationship to the established clinical
measures of clinical severity, global function, and problem severity collected routinely for children and
adolescents referred and accepted for treatment.29, 30 Systemwide implementation of the ACE survey, as a first step, positions CAAMHPP to become an evidence - based, trauma - informed service organization, because ACE survey scores necessarily must relate to clinical outcomes in order to evaluate the effect of trauma - focused interventions in clinical practice.
This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at high risk in the general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has
measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and
adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research
by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological distress.
According to the law, residential care is a
measure of the youth welfare system whose purpose is «to support the development of children and
adolescents by means of an association of everyday life with educational and therapeutic provisions» (Section 34 of the KJHG), thus contributing to the young person's ability to realize his or her «right to support in his or her development and to an upbringing into a personality capable of bearing responsibility and living in a community» (Section I, Subsection 3, KJHG).
We summed the number of smoking occurrences in each movie viewed
by the survey respondent as the
measure of
adolescent exposure to movie smoking.
Objective: To examine Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey items
by sex and
by total scores
by sex vs clinical
measures of impairment to examine the clinical utility of the ACE survey as an index of trauma in a child and
adolescent mental health care setting.
Family risk factors were assessed
by four dichotomous
measures: teenage parent (families in which one or both parents were a teenager when the
adolescent study participant was born), divorced (families with divorced parents), single parent (
adolescent reporting living with only one parent) and living alone (
adolescent reporting living alone).
The parent and teacher rating scales are appropriate for youth ages 3 — 17 years, and the self - report
measure is completed
by adolescents of ages 12 — 17 years.
AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression
by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity
Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for
Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment,
adolescents completed interviews that
measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped
by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of using cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15
We found that rates of both smoking (ever) and drinking (one or more alcoholic drinks on a usual occasion) were higher among more consumerist Scottish early
adolescents, as
measured by a range of indicators.
The strength of this study is that a unique part of
adolescents» reckless driving was demonstrated to be affected
by exposure to reckless driving in movies, exposure that was
measured well before these
adolescents ever got behind the wheel of a car.
For instance,
adolescents with a high socioeconomic background
measured by parental education, occupation and household income were the least likely to be involved in bullying behaviour, either as being the bullies, the victims or both.
Four items
measured parent aggravation36: difficulty in caring for the
adolescent, being bothered
by things the
adolescent does, sacrifices for the child, and anger (0 = never, 3 = always; mean: 2.68; SE: 0.018: range: 0 — 12).
Measuring Health - Related Quality of Life in
Adolescents by Subgroups of Students and Outpatient Mental Health Clients
R - rated movie restrictions were
measured by asking the
adolescents at each wave, «How often do your parents let you watch movies or videos that are rated R (never, once in a while, sometimes, or all the time)?»
The
adolescents» behavior and adjustment, and the behavior of their parents, were judged
by observers, the parents, and the
adolescents themselves; these multiple sources of information were combined to produce
measures of unusual reliability.
Though the economic cost can not be accurately
measured, substance abuse
by adolescents and young adults has a serious impact on individuals, families, communities -LSB-...]
A prospective study of CFS in
adolescents found significantly more anxiety disorders in recovered patients.28 In this study changes in fatigue and social adjustment were synchronous with changes in fear as
measured by the fear questionnaire.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) This longitudinal study examines the effectiveness of The Seven Challenges ® in reducing
adolescent substance use and mental health problems, as well as the process
by which it is effective.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) Participants were randomly assigned to receive Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed
Adolescents (IPT - A) or treatment as usual (TAU) delivered
by school - based mental health clinicians.
Youth emotional adjustment and
adolescent behavior problems were
measured by the Global Severity Index of the Brief Symptom Inventory.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) The study examined whether initiation, engagement, dosage, treatment satisfaction, or outcomes for
adolescents who received the
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) in a large implementation effort were equivalent
by gender or racial group.
Protective factors included parenting attitudes,
measured by the Adult -
Adolescent Parenting Inventory; parenting sense of competence,
measured by the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale; family functioning,
measured by the Self - Report Family Inventory; and social support,
measured by the Social Provisions Scale.
We did however see in our pilot study that mindfulness (as
measured by the adult version of the MAAS) was significantly increased immediately after MBSR training but also at 8 - week follow - up in a group of
adolescents with externalizing disorders (Bögels et al. 2008).
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes,
measures, notable limitations) Over a 1 - year period, a four - treatment condition randomized design evaluated the outcomes for family court with usual services, drug court with usual services, drug court with Multisystemic Therapy (MST), and drug court with MST enhanced with contingency management for
adolescent substance use (as
measured by self - report and urine screens), criminal behavior (as
measured by the Self - Report Delinquency Scale and arrest records), symptomatology (as
measured by the Child Behavior Checklist), and days in out - of - home placement (as documented in criminal justice records).
Measures utilized the UCLA - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]- Reaction Index, the Moment -
by - Moment assessment tool, Emotion Regulation Guide (ER Guide), the Child Ecology Check - In (CECI), the Child and
Adolescent Functioning Assessment Scale (CAFAS) and the Priority Problem Worksheet.
Measures used included the Kempe Family Stress Inventory (KFSI), Adult -
Adolescent Parenting Inventory - Revised (AAPI - R, AAPI - 2), and the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Social - Emotional (ASQ - SE) completed
by the parent every 1 to 3 weeks.
Family Functioning, as
measured by the Self - Report of Family Functioning, a self - reported
measure collected among the
adolescents themselves, not among their parents or other family members.
There were no significant effects of six weeks of the program on
adolescent self - report of family functioning as
measured by the Self - Report of Family Functioning.
The FEEL - KJ may prove to be a valuable addition to these instruments because it
measures a comprehensive range of emotion regulation strategies assumed to be used
by children and
adolescents in response to three different emotions.
Further, in a study evaluating a parent —
adolescent teamwork approach to diabetes management,
adolescents in the intervention group reported significantly less parent — child conflict related to diabetes management [
measured by the Diabetes Family Behavior Checklist (DFBC)-RSB- and were in better metabolic control (Anderson, Ho, Brackett, & Laffel, 1999).
The current study seeks to address this gap
by examining the extent to which sleep functioning mediates the effects
by parental warmth on different
measures of
adolescent problem behaviors.
The Pubertal Development Scale (Peterson et al., 1988)
measures pubertal status and was completed
by adolescents.
The assessed
measures give only a limited scope of information as all data were obtained
by adolescent self - report.
A variable was created to
measure discrepancy between family members» picture of the family environment [30]
by subtracting the
adolescent's score from the parent's (parent —
adolescent discrepancy).
For that purpose, we
measured empathy, subjective happiness, and affect experienced
by a group of 42
adolescents with AS compared to 44 of their non-AS peers.
The support scale
measures the amount of support from mothers, fathers, and best friends separately as perceived
by adolescents.
It is important to highlight that social problems were
measured by parent report, thus indicating a more or less objective
measure of social problems rather than a possibly biased perception
by the
adolescent.
Numbers of Studies
by Trauma Type Utilizing
Measures that Assess Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children and
Adolescents
Since our
measure of EV indexed 3 weeks, separated
by 3 months, we are confident that such occurrences have not had a major impact on our results, but it would nevertheless be informative to study EV in the context of
adolescents» daily lives.
Several indicators of social and behavioral adjustment were
measured concurrently and 1 year later
by using
adolescents» self - reports and teacher ratings.
One explanation for this may be the difficulty of
measuring parent -
adolescent communication.21 Communication has been shown to vary
by the sex of the
adolescent and parent,22 - 24 and to depend on the parental style of communication.25 Our study
measured only perceived parental communication as a factor for family connectivity.
This is consistent with the finding of Mazurek and Kanne that children and
adolescents with an ASD with IQ < 85 were less likely to have friendships as
measured by a single ADI - R item [6].
Global functioning was
measured using the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and
Adolescents (HoNOSCA), 33 a semi-structured interview, which was completed
by the blinded research assessor on the basis of accounts taken directly from the informant and parents or carers.