Not exact matches
Within the maternal
domain, dominant themes included 1) emotional health: all respondents indicated that a mother's emotional health greatly affects her child's well being; 2) self - efficacy: mothers believed in the importance of accepting responsibility for monitoring their own well being and that of their child; and 3) support systems: all mothers expressed the need to share parenting experiences, stressors, and depressive
symptoms with someone (
most preferred to speak with family or friends rather than with their child's pediatrician).
Those who displayed the
most problematic behaviour often had higher than average difficulties in several
domains although their core difficulty was different - one being hyperactivity, the other emotional
symptoms.
Peer interventions administered in the short - term are not enough to eradicate the peer problems of externalizing children, whose difficulties typically require longer - term treatments.20 Perhaps the
most important conclusion from the MTA for the
domain of peer relations is that peer problems need to be targeted directly and over the long - term; treatments geared primarily at ADHD
symptoms or other functional deficits associated with ADHD are not likely to eradicate peer problems.