Children's behavioural and emotional problems may also be exacerbated by
negative parental feelings such as hostility (Brannigan, Gemmell et al. 2002); and both poor adjustment and low school achievement have been linked to parents» own perceived lack of competence (Coleman and Karraker 2003; Jones and Prinz 2005).
Not exact matches
Comparing data on the adults who were binge eaters with other parents in the study, the researchers found that
parental binge eating was correlated with
feeling distress in response to children's
negative emotions and was associated with restricting the child's food intake for health reasons or to control the child's weight.
Due to the
negative attributions, hostility and the unwarranted
feelings of estrangement,
parental alienation is deemed as a «clinical phenomenon» that gravely affects the wellbeing of a child.
Is the heightened attention expected from parent - directed intervention likely to plant
negative feelings of differential
parental treatment among the other children?
The term
Parental Alienation Syndrome was first used by psychiatrist Richard Gardner in the 1980s to describe the extreme
negative feelings a child may have toward a targeted parent as a response to the constant brainwashing and indoctrination by the other parent, who is usually the one with custody.
Parental alienation results from a combination of programming of indoctrinations by one parent adding to and / or colouring a child's own
feelings toward the other parent causing a
negative emotional atmosphere between the child and the parent victim....
Perhaps parents
feel more inclined to intensify positive interactions with their children when their partners suffer from severe psychological problems due to the unmistakable
negative consequences of
parental psychopathology for the ill parent's child - rearing behaviors, notwithstanding the high level of family stress the other parent is likely to encounter.
It has been shown that depresssed mothers make more
negative appraisals of their child's behaviours,
feel less confident in their
parental efficacy and use maladaptive parenting techniques more often [27], [51], [52].
Thus, conflict around BGM, such as
parental nagging or criticism, may serve to promote
negative feelings in the youth directed at diabetes management tasks and specifically at BGM.
These findings suggest that a high
parental focus on
negative feelings during parent — child interaction can stimulate, rather than relieve, social - emotional problems in children.
Gardner (2002) pointed out, «when true
parental abuse and / or neglect is present the child's animosity may be justified, and so the
parental alienation syndrome diagnosis is not applicable» Johnston (2001) is right that it is «critical to differentiate the alienated child (who persistently refuses and rejects visitation because of unreasonable
negative views and
feelings) from other children who also resist contact with a parent after separation.