To conclude, although knowledge
on emotion regulation difficulties within families with an AD is growing, it is of great importance to gain more insight into dyadic emotional processes of parent - child dyads unfolding in the moment that are related to child and parent AD.
Not exact matches
Dr. Driscoll's clinical practice at The Family Institute focuses
on helping adults and couples with
emotion regulation difficulties build lives that are meaningful, vital and worth living.
Peer relationship
difficulties and peer rejection are common in youngsters with attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mandating focus
on assessment issues, underlying reasons for peer approval and disapproval, links with comorbid aggression, and the mediating role of sociocognitive mechanisms as well as
emotion regulation strategies.
Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with
regulation and control of negative
emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural
difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go
on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus
on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.
Thus, despite growing evidence
on the interconnected nature of children's and parents»
emotions during interactions as well as research showing the link between parent - child
emotion regulation difficulties and children's AD, relatively little research examined this in tandem.
We expected an indirect effect of beliefs about
emotions on emotion regulation strategies, and we hypothesized this effect would be mediated by the unwillingness to remain in contact with aversive private experiences, i.e., experiential avoidance (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) and by the
difficulties a person experiences in regulating
emotions (Gratz & Roemer, 2004).
The study explored the total, direct and indirect effects of
emotion knowledge
on adjustment in preschoolers and examined whether
emotion regulation mediated the relationships between
emotion knowledge and adjustment (social competence, and behavioral
difficulties, such as anxiety — withdrawal and anger — aggression).
Our study focused
on two such mediational links — affective quality in mother - child interactions and children's
difficulties with
emotion regulation.
Emotion regulation deficits are also found in adults with ASD (Samson et al. 2012), suggesting that the
difficulties with controlling
emotions seen in childhood are also observed later
on in life.