Improve child health, development, and behaviour problems related to
parenting skill deficits.
Objectively identify impediments and supports to successful parenting, and specific
parenting skill deficits, so as to design a comprehensive family intervention.
The underlying assumption of social learning — based PMT models is that some sort of
parenting skills deficit has been at least partly responsible for the development and / or maintenance of the conduct - problem behaviours.
Not exact matches
«Program for
parents improves ADHD behaviors in young children: A program that focuses on strengthening
parenting skills also improves symptoms of Attention
Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 3 - 8 year - olds, according to researchers at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute..»
Provides instructional services to students with learning needs, diagnoses learning
skill deficits and delivers prescribed instructional delivery methods as determined by Catapult Learning; consults with school personnel to coordinate efforts in providing services to students; communicates and conferences with
parents providing information on student progress, co-teach with other educators.
Substance or alcohol abuse, mental health challenges, domestic violence, unemployment,
parent - child relational and interaction issues, anger management,
deficits in
parenting skills or child management, and adult survivors of childhood abuse and neglect
Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital
deficits that may make a child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being maltreated.9
Parenting skills can also suffer among substance - abusing
parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who abuse substances also may place a higher priority on their drug use than on caring for their children, which can lead them to neglect their children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.
Others, however, have personality
deficits, are lacking appropriate
parenting skills, and / or have previously been only minimally involved in their children's lives.
I have experience working with the following areas: attention -
deficit / hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, phobias, separation anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety, depression, obsessive - compulsive disorder, grief and loss, adjustment issues, self - esteem and assertiveness
skills enhancement,
parent management related issues and stress management.»
Her main areas of interest include social
skills training, learning and behaviour problems, attention
deficit disorder, Aspergers syndrome, anxiety disorders, behaviour management counselling for
parents and teachers.
Chronic coping difficulties, a chronic sense of hopelessness, deep - seated
deficits in caring for children in the past, poor coping
skills, and poor problem - solving abilities are factors that have been shown to bode poorly for future
parenting (Adshead, Falkov, & Göpfert, 2004).
«The advantage of communicating with the
parent is that the child associates these
skills with the
parent, not with the therapist,» says Timothy Verduin, Ph.D., clinical director of the Institute for Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders at the New York University Child Study Center.
Attention
deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic, debilitating disorder which may impact upon many aspects of an individual's life, including academic difficulties, 1 social
skills problems, 2 and strained
parent - child relationships.3 Whereas it was previously thought that children eventually outgrow ADHD, recent studies suggest that 30 — 60 % of affected individuals continue to show significant symptoms of the disorder into adulthood.4 Children with the disorder are at greater risk for longer term negative outcomes, such as lower educational and employment attainment.5 A vital consideration in the effective treatment of ADHD is how the disorder affects the daily lives of children, young people, and their families.
Similarly, while impairments in adaptive behaviour, and specifically daily living
skills (DLS), are key areas of
deficit in autism, some studies have reported a relationship between better DLS and lower
parenting stress (Tomanik et al. 2004; Green and Carter 2014) and others have found no association (Lecavalier et al. 2006; Estes et al. 2009, 2013; Peters - Scheffer et al. 2012).
Regression analyses revealed
parent - reported social
skills deficits and teacher - reported conflict in the student — teacher relationship to be associated with child - reported loneliness.
Social
skills training with
parent generalization: treatment effects for children with attention
deficit disorder