Helping parents use good parenting strategies can reduce the risk
of behaviour problems in later life, even where there are significant behaviour problems in childhood.
Studies provide only a little support for the theory that food or chemical intolerance may be part of the
cause of behaviour problems in some children.
It is often difficult to determine the
type of behaviour problems in children that a child is suffering from because many mimic each other.
We have investigated the extent to which interest in attending parenting programmes is determined by factors such as socioeconomic status, educational level, and the
presence of behaviour problems among the children, in a survey of a representative sample of parents of 2 — 8 year olds in Oxford.
They are directed at parents and reflect an increasing recognition that aspects of parenting such as boundary setting, positive discipline and warm and affectionate relationships are key in the
prevention of behaviour problems [9].
Since the study did not compare a mothers - only intervention with a group involving both mothers and fathers, it's too early to say from a research perspective that children are more likely to benefit, or more likely to move out of the clinical
range of behaviour problems, when fathers as well as mothers attend a parenting program.
Sonunga - Barke, E.J.S., Thompson, M., Stevenson, J. and Viney, D. (1997) «Patterns
of behaviour problems among pre-school children», Psychological Medicine, 27, pp909 - 918
Starts smoking, drinking at early age Sexually active at early age Starts drug use at early age Keep taking more drugs Feels positive about effects of drugs History of behaviour problems
There is a
suite of behaviour problems that can seemingly be solved through management, but at great cost to the dog's quality of life: play issues, aggressive guarding of chew items, and jumpy and mouthy dogs, to name a few.
Most experts now view ADD and ADHD as part of a
group of behaviour problems where children have more difficulty with concentrating on what they are doing (problems with attention) than other children of their age.
Speech and language difficulties can be very frustrating for your child and may be the cause
of behaviour problems at preschool or school.
In a first study with a variable - oriented approach, correlations were analysed between emotional tone in close relationships and a
number of behaviour problems.
At age two infants of disturbed parents displayed significantly poorer language performance and had higher
scores of behaviour problems as compared to infants of healthy parents.
Where equivalent measures of mother involvement were available, we found associations with risk
of behaviour problems using the SDQ prosocial scale (but not the SDQ total difficulties scale) for mothers, and using the total difficulties (but not prosocial) scale for fathers.
In both cases it could be argued, the programmes were offering prevention of escalation of the behavioural problem and the adult mental health
sequelae of behaviour problems.
Previous research has shown that a less positive emotional tone in adolescents» relationships to parents, but not in their relationships to peers, predicts
more of behaviour problems and substance use.
These dogs become so unsocialized that when the dogs» «families» finally «get rid of them», they are almost always euthanized
because of behaviour problems.
The observation that the level of interest in attending programmes was predicted, not by social class, but by the
presence of behaviour problems, suggests that a universal programme would preferentially attract many of the parents most in need.
Siblings of chronically ill children showed no greater likelihood of receiving scores in the clinical
range of behaviour problems than children in the general population.
891 children (mean age 7 y, 69 % boys) who had completed 1 year of kindergarten and were behaviourally disruptive (ie, had high scores on teacher and parent
ratings of behaviour problems).
Studies showed that chronic physical aggression is associated with social factors, namely mothers» young age at first delivery, low education,
history of behaviour problems, smoking during pregnancy, and low income.
Almost half the young people in residential units were admitted because of family problems, one third because
of behaviour problems and one in seven because of school problems (Triseliotis et al., 1995, p. 98).
Extraversion / surgency and low effortful control have also been associated with the development
of behaviour problems.
The distribution
of behaviour problems was similar to that found in other populations, as was the higher prevalence of behaviour problems in boys.8, 10
A logistic regression analysis was carried out with the age of the eldest child, sex, social class, housing tenure, age at leaving education, ethnicity, and the presence
of behaviour problems to assess the relative power of these variables in predicting parental interest in attending a parenting group.