Sentences with phrase «parental substance abuse problems»

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Data from families receiving the Project Connect program was compared to data from families not receiving it, but who also had identified parental substance abuse problems.

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Fathers are cited more than mothers in issues such as psychological maladjustment, substance abuse, depression and behavioral problems, according to research done by Ronald Rohner, director of the Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, and his colleague Robert Veneziano.

While the data do not provide detailed information about the family or household circumstances prebirth or postbirth, previous research demonstrates that households with heavy parental alcohol use are at risk of instability, as well as concomitant risks such as abuse, poor family functioning, mental health problems and illicit substance use.13 17 29 This is likely to be an environment in which school attendance is not prioritised.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

In the past three decades, researchers have identified four common co-occurring issues — parental substance abuse, parental mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct problems — that are related to parenting and that lead to child maltreatment.

Summary Researchers have identified four common co-occurring parental risk factors — substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct problems — that lead to child maltreatment.

Articles discuss issues in sibling relationships, including problem behavior; interactions with playmates and teachers; role of familism; links with individual adjustment; maternal perception of sibling negativity; transition to siblinghood; parental differential treatment; adjustment; adolescent substance use; conduct problems; delinquency training; risk to siblings in abusing families; adjustment to chronic disability; and antisocial behavior.

Physicians underestimated substantially the prevalence of intrafamilial violence, maternal psychosocial distress, and associated behavior problems in children compared with use of a questionnaire for this purpose.23 The use of a clinic questionnaire identified significantly more mothers with potential risk factors for poor parenting compared with review of medical records.24 Shorter versions of this questionnaire for evaluating parental depressive disorders, 25 substance abuse, 26 and parental history of physical abuse as a child27 compared favorably to the original measures in terms of accuracy.

Parental mental disorders that are known to be associated with executive dysfunction are adult ADHD, substance abuse, autism - spectrum disorder or conduct problems, and personality disorders such as borderline personality disorder.

For young children experiencing toxic stress from recurrent child abuse or neglect, severe maternal depression, parental substance abuse, or family violence, interventions that provide intensive services matched to the problems they are designed to address can prevent the disruption of brain architecture and promote better developmental outcomes.

Parental abuse, onset of problem behavior in early childhood, financial hardship and lack of supervision are all associated with more severe conduct disorder.10, 18 Additionally, a poorer prognosis is associated with an increase in the number and severity of specific DSM - IV criteria.10 Risk also increases with comorbid ADHD and substance abuse.10 These dimensions should guide treatment Subclinical conduct disorder symptoms or those of recent onset may be amenable to physician - parent counseling.

Family history of the problem behavior, management problems, or conflict; favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the problem behavior; or caregivers of children / adolescents with rebelliousness, favorable attitudes toward and / or friends who engage in problem behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy, violence, depression, anxiety, high school dropout)

Child risk factors such as behavioral and mental health problems (overt and covert aggression, autism spectrum disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, criminality or delinquent behavior, depression, school failure, lack of social and academic skills, etc.); family and parental problems such as parental depression, substance use disorder, and criminality, or family violence and child maltreatment and sexual abuse.

However, heterotypic continuity of psychopathology is also known across generations, such as the consistently reported relationship between parental substance abuse, and antisocial behavior and somatization problems in the daughters (Bohman et al. 1984; Cadoret 1978).

Child behavior problems (acting out, disruptive behavior, internalizing problems, hyperactivity, peer relationship problems), parent or child substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, parental depression.

Vice-President Dr. Chantal Clot - Grangeat, Chambéry (France), stated, «Our aim is to find solutions for reducing the problems of children known to arise from family breakdown, such as diminished self - esteem, depression, and possible parental alienation, as well as educational failure, substance abuse, and trouble with the law.»

«(13) Activities to address the particular needs of homeless children and youths that may arise from domestic violence and parental mental health or substance abuse problems.»

These experiences include abuse or neglect, the death of a parent, parental divorce or separation, witnessing domestic violence, living with someone who has a mental illness or substance abuse problem, and the incarceration of a household member.

The PQ screens for common problems that are risk factors for child maltreatment: 1) maternal depression, 2) alcohol and substance abuse, 3) intimate partner (or domestic) violence, 4) harsh parenting, 5) major parental stress, and, 6) food insecurity.

Without detailed longitudinal studies and the measurement of many additional variables, it may be very difficult to tease out whether, for example, it is household substance abuse that affects later outcomes or some unmeasured underlying parental emotional problem or lack of self - control.

Problems with parenting and high risk families (e.g. adolescent parenting, parental substance abuse, family violence and child abuse)