Sentences with phrase «potential stress for children»

Concerns have been raised regarding the potential stress for children living in two homes and in two family cultures (Gilmore 2006; McIntosh et al. 2011).

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The younger a young father is at the time his baby is born, the less likely he is to remain in contact — and be available as a potential «buffer» for his child in times of stress.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

True joint custody arrangements are rare because of their potential to cause both personal difficulties (stress, disruption of child's routine) and practical problems (scheduling, costs of maintaining two permanent living spaces for the child).

The researchers believe this study may have implications for women stressed during pregnancy or treated clinically with glucocorticoids, if the mechanisms are similar in humans, though it is unclear yet the extent to which changes in the ability of the placenta to transport nutrients to the foetus exacerbate or protect the child from the potential adverse effects of glucocorticoid overexposure during pregnancy.

Understanding how to reduce the potential myriad of stress responses for children is an important part of the test equation.

: A Meta - Analysis (PDF - 221 KB) Kennedy, Kim, Tripodi, Brown, & Gowdy (2014) Florida State University College of Social Work Faculty Publications Examines the effectiveness of parent - child interaction therapy (PCIT) for physically abusive or at - risk families at reducing the recurrence of abuse, child abuse potential, and parenting stress.

One limitation noted was that only those families who had completed all components of SafeCare ®, including post-training data collection using the Beck Depression Inventory, Child Abuse Potential Inventory, and Parenting Stress Index were included in the treatment group, while there was no comparable assurance of level of service provided for the Family Preservation group, which makes the comparison less generalizable.

Babies and young children, likewise, watch the potential for danger of stress based on the availability of an attachment figure.

True joint custody arrangements are rare because of their potential to cause both personal difficulties (stress, disruption of child's routine) and practical problems (scheduling, costs of maintaining two permanent living spaces for the child).

This study utilized self - report data from caregivers that included the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI), Parenting Stress Inventory - Short Form (PSI / SF), and Adaptive Behavior Assessment System - 2nd Edition (ABAS - II) for 116 children ages 3 - 12 from a rural, Appalachian community.