Understanding which
parenting behaviours increase a child's risk for later emotional health problems has direct implications for early intervention.
Not exact matches
All
parents should be provided with information regarding a) factors known to
increase the risk of SIDS in the bed - sharing environment, including parental smoking (particularly maternal smoking in pregnancy), young maternal age, infant prematurity; and b) aspects of adult beds that should be modified with infant safety in mind: e.g. gaps between bed and wall or other furniture, proximity of baby to pillows, type of bedding used, parental
behaviour prior to bed - sharing such as consumption of alcohol, drugs or medication affecting arousal.
Official figures show a massive 258 per cent
increase in the use of Acceptable
Behaviour Contracts,
Parenting Orders and Individual Support Orders.
By not allowing kids to play unsupervised outdoors and be in situations where they must assess risk for themselves,
parents limit «essential learning and developmental opportunities for children, while also reducing their physical activity and
increasing sedentary
behaviours.»
Mothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from
parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either
parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial
behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of
increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcomes.21
The Nurturing Programme seeks to promote mental wellbeing among
parents and children as well as
behaviour management (
increasing life - course resilience to mental health problems such as anxiety and depression).
Parents act as gatekeepers to children's activity10 and can play an important role in increasing their child's physical activity.11 — 13 For instance, parents can influence their child's activity by being active with their child, role - modelling active behaviour and / or by facilitating physical activity for their child (logistic support).13 — 16 Studies examining associations between parent and child physical activity behaviour have yielded mixed results.14 17 — 20 A growing body of research has shown that providing logistic support is associated with increased physical activity21 — 23 and, therefore, may be the most important source of parental influence on children's ac
Parents act as gatekeepers to children's activity10 and can play an important role in
increasing their child's physical activity.11 — 13 For instance,
parents can influence their child's activity by being active with their child, role - modelling active behaviour and / or by facilitating physical activity for their child (logistic support).13 — 16 Studies examining associations between parent and child physical activity behaviour have yielded mixed results.14 17 — 20 A growing body of research has shown that providing logistic support is associated with increased physical activity21 — 23 and, therefore, may be the most important source of parental influence on children's ac
parents can influence their child's activity by being active with their child, role - modelling active
behaviour and / or by facilitating physical activity for their child (logistic support).13 — 16 Studies examining associations between
parent and child physical activity
behaviour have yielded mixed results.14 17 — 20 A growing body of research has shown that providing logistic support is associated with
increased physical activity21 — 23 and, therefore, may be the most important source of parental influence on children's activity.
«One is that on average, children whose
parents separate are at
increased risk for a range of outcomes like
behaviour problems or not finishing education.
From Time 1 to Time 2 significant goal attainment,
increases in
parenting satisfaction, and decreases in child
behaviour problems, parental adjustment problems and interparental conflict occurred in the PP PWS group, but did not in the control group.
The program aims to strengthen
parent - child relationships and
increase parents» capacity in responding effectively to children's
behaviour by building skills and confidence.
One evidence - based approach with empirical support is an approach developed by Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. [4][5][6] This approach uses a
parent training model and begins by focusing on positive approaches to
increase compliant
behaviours.
Parental modelling of fearful
behaviour and avoidant strategies is also likely to
increase a child's risk of developing later emotional health problems.6 An anxious
parent may be more likely to model anxious
behaviour or may provide threat and avoidant information to their child,
increasing the child's risk of anxiety disorder.
Children with a certain genotype on the dopamine receptor gene showed the largest decrease of externalizing
behaviour in the cases where
parents showed the largest
increase in the use of positive discipline.
Research shows sizeable effects of computerized training on executive functions if the difficulty level, or «working memory load,» is adaptively
increased, on nonverbal intelligence and on
parent reports of self - regulation
behaviour in children with ADHD, but evidence for transfer to academic achievement and classroom
behaviour is not fully consistent.18
Online interventions offering such support look promising and have potential to
increase reach and uptake.13 Offering advice to
parents to take up a more attachment - based
parenting style should be tempered by the lack of rigorous data on the effectiveness of this approach to respond to unsettled infant
behaviour.14
Overall, the Incredible Years Programme aims to: promote positive
parenting, improve
parent - child relationship, reduce critical and physical discipline and
increase the use of positive strategies and help
parents to identify social learning theory principles for managing
behaviour improve home - school relationships.
In these programs
parents are coached in behavioural strategies for
increasing reinforcement of adaptive child
behaviour and setting consistent limits on disruptive
behaviour, thereby replacing escalating cycles of
parent - child coercion with positive, relationship - enhancing interactions (Hawes and Allen 2016).
Presenting the information
parents need in order to manage these
behaviour problems in booklet or other media - based format (including audio - or videotapes, cassettes or computer programmes) would reduce the cost and thus
increase access to these interventions.
It
increased the
parents» ability to understand and manage the complex and challenging
behaviours of their children by enabling them to understand the origins of the
behaviours and the unique difficulties that children with attachment difficulties can have as a result of their early childhood experiences.
The graphs show that the prevalence of children in poor health and with poor health
behaviours increased as the level of
parenting skill decreased.
One of the consequences of bidirectionality is that
parents with insufficient
parenting skills may become involved in increasingly negative and coercive
behaviours when dealing with non-compliance in children, which can have a cyclical effect, exacerbating child
behaviour problems and, in turn, further
increasing parental distress (Patterson 1992; Campbell 1997).
Increased use of harsh discipline, lower levels of
parent - child social interaction and reduced visits to other households with children may be responses to already difficult
behaviour rather than pre-cursors of it.
The prevalence of children in poor health and with poor health
behaviours increased as the level of
parenting skill decreased.
Results: Comparison of the changes during the 3 - month waiting and treatment periods revealed significantly stronger treatment effects on all outcome measures, indicating a substantial decrease in child
behaviour problems and a significant
increase in
parenting due to treatment.
During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive
behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an
increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many
parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for
parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «
parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.
At the child level, temperamental features evident in infancy and toddlerhood such as irritability, restlessness, irregular patterns of
behaviour, lack of persistence and low adaptability
increase the risk of
behaviour problems7, 8,9 as do certain genetic and neurobiological traits.10, 11 At the family level,
parenting practices including punitive discipline, inconsistency, low warmth and involvement, and physical aggression have been found to contribute to the development of young children's aggressive
behaviour.12 Children who are exposed to high levels of discord within the home and whose
parents have mental health and / or substance abuse issues are also at heightened risk.13 Other important correlates of aggression in children that can contribute to chronic aggression include faulty social - cognitive processes and peer rejection.14
Aggressive
behaviour Conflict with peers and / or difficulty making and keeping friends Social withdrawal Tantrums and excessive / intense emotional upsets Low mood or persistent sadness Frequent stomachaches, headaches or other physical complaints School refusal Reduced academic functioning and / or significant upset at school Excessive accommodation by
parents Increased family stress
Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their
parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on
parents, and the effects on
parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child
Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» beha
Parent Centers, an early education program with a
parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» beha
parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on
increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students»
behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced
parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students»
behaviour.
Fortunately, there is growing evidence from interventions targeting the facilitation of responsive
parent practices that show positive results and some evidence that when responsive
behaviours are
increased children showed at least short - term
increases in cognitive, social, and emotional skills.16, 17 However, many questions still need to be addressed including whether there is specificity between particular responsive
behaviours and the support they provide for certain areas of child development as well as whether there are sensitive periods of early development when particular types of responsive
behaviours are most helpful.
Of the studies evaluating the effectiveness of attachment - theory - based intervention programs, only two have dealt exclusively with maltreated children and
parents who had been reported to child protection services.4, 5 These two studies, noteworthy for their randomized trial method, found a substantial reduction in disorganized attachment
behaviours and an
increase in secure attachment
behaviours among infants and young children resulting from attachment - theory - based interventions.
Parents may view themselves as responsible for
behaviour - dependent chronic adversities,
increasing the distress caused by these stressors, which in turn may
increase symptoms of psychopathology.
In a survey of the mothers and fathers of 66 children,
parents of children with ADHD combined and inattentive subtypes expressed more role dissatisfaction than
parents of control children.17 Furthermore, ADHD in children was reported to predict depression in mothers.18 Pelham et al reported that the deviant child
behaviours that represent major chronic interpersonal stressors for
parents of ADHD children are associated with
increased parental alcohol consumption.19
Parents should be taught the skills to change their own
behaviour and become independent problem solvers in a broader social environment that supports
parenting and family relationships.40 A small
increase in parental exposure to an evidence - based programme can produce meaningful change at a whole population level rather than individual improvement at an individual case level.3, 9
In addition, the
increase in resistant and angry
behaviour in children of this age, often described as «the terrible twos», has been associated with
parenting difficulties (Belsky et al., 1996; Carter et al., 2004).
Programmes that strengthen family relationships and improve
parenting skills are considered to be among the most effective strategies for addressing youth problems, such as delinquency and substance abuse.23, 24 Studies have shown that
parent interventions can decrease negative disciplinary
behaviour in
parents and
increase the use of a variety of positive attending and other relationship - enhancing skills to improve child
behaviour.27 — 29
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].
This is surprising given the
increased rates of mental disorders including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse in the
parents of anxious children [22, 23], and evidence that parental psychopathology places children at
increased risk for
parent behaviour - related stressors, such as interparental conflict [24].
The key treatment objectives of CARES are: (a) to enhance attention to critical facial cues signalling distress in child,
parents and others, to improve emotion recognition and labelling; (b) improve emotional understanding by linking emotion to context, and by identifying contexts and situations that elicit child anger and frustration; (c) teach prosocial and empathic
behaviour through social stories,
parent modelling, and role play; (d)
increase emotional labelling and prosocial
behaviour through positive reinforcement; (e) and
increase child's frustration tolerance through modelling, role - playing, and reinforcing child's use of learned cognitive - behavioural strategies to decrease the incidence of aggressive
behaviours.
In addition, it has been reported that child difficulty not only
increases the likelihood of maternal negative
parenting, but also that maternal negative
parenting heightens the child's behavioural maladjustment that may take the form of ODD
behaviours [11].
The 10 - unit SD program teaches
parents 17
parenting skills to
increase pro-social child
behaviours and decrease problem
behaviours in home and community settings.
The NBAS showed a small to moderate impact on
parent behaviour, knowledge, parental representations, and
increases in mother — infant and father — infant interaction.
The positive effects measured in
parents in terms of
increased autonomy support, promotion of independence and reduction in behavioural control show that the transition programme has the potential to influence and partially shape certain
parenting behaviours.
Furthermore, when
parents express low levels of support, the negative influences of deviant peers on the development of oppositional
behaviour increase [26, 53].