Very few children in foster care are securely attached to their biological parents, and the security of the attachment relationship with foster parents
predicts outcomes for the child.
Not exact matches
• Where mothers had been depressed AND the fathers had worked long hours (particularly at weekends) in the first two years of their baby's life, this
predicted poor developmental
outcomes for their
child through to age 10, especially among boys (Letourneau et al, 2009).
These tumor samples consistently tied to worse
outcomes in
children, suggesting a critical marker
for predicting prognosis.
Its findings will be important
for doctors as they try to
predict what the lasting
outcomes might be
for families, and how to monitor and treat
children who had CSE.
SRI understands that as long as race, class, sexual orientation, immigration status, gender, gender identity, ability, religion, and ethnicity continue to
predict the future life chances of
children in our nation, we must work with schools and school systems to identify related barriers and obstacles to opportunity and development, disrupt their negative impact, eliminate the persistent disparities, and implement new policies and practices that support significant learning
outcomes for each and every student.
And the best predictor of that attachment becoming secure and
predicting positive
outcomes in each of these domains
for your
child is how you've made sense of your early life history.
To examine the 5 - year
outcome for a UK cohort of
children with diagnosed, treated ADHD and identify whether maternal and social factors
predict key
outcomes.
Few studies have ascertained what
children may have witnessed prior to the divorce, nor have they controlled
for these factors when attempting to
predict child outcomes from fathers» presence or absence.
Fathers» absence at the 20 - week ultrasound, in particular, strongly
predicts fathers» absence at the
child's birth and should be considered a signal that a mother is at elevated risk
for prenatal stress and adverse
child health
outcomes.
In this sample, adolescent psychosocial
outcomes were
predicted by community violence differently
for male and female
children and based on their experiences of conflict at home.
Parent age
predicted children's
outcomes, indicating better results
for the
children of older parents / caregivers.
Of course, this body of research does not really explain why certain behaviours are problematic or stressors
for parents and families.2 Moreover, parent distress may be the antecedent rather than the
outcome of
child behaviour problems: High parent distress is associated with less optimal parenting and more negative parent -
child interaction which, in turn,
predicts child behaviour problems.
Greater complexity of father - toddler social play
predicted better cognitive and social
outcomes for children, and this correlation was stronger in the EHS group.
Third, although there are some data about various
child and family characteristics that
predict outcome (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, severity of
child behaviour, maternal adjustment problems, treatment barriers), there has been a relative dearth of attention paid to a) the actual processes of change that are induced by PMT and b) whether there are certain subgroups (e.g., based on
child gender or minority status or family socioeconomic status)
for whom PMT is more or less effective.15 - 17
It is the quality of the relationship between parent and
child that is all important as
predicting better
outcomes for kids on a wide range of axes.
Along with the
child temperament, a high stable family alliance appeared to
predict better
outcomes in
children, in particular
for the development of the Theory of Mind (Baron - Cohen, 1991).