It could be that mothers
with psychological difficulties focus more on negative emotions during parent — child interaction from toddlerhood onward, when children start talking about emotions themselves.
Sometimes, serious and
complex psychological difficulties converge with that perfect storm of adolescent social development, individuation, and emotional upheaval, and the challenge is taken to a whole new level.
The psychiatrist thought it «highly probable» that M's views on contact and the proceedings had been influenced directly by her mother as well as by the internal
psychological difficulties caused by her conflicts of loyalty.
Indeed, studies have found that parents with
psychological difficulties show less optimal emotion socialization practices such as low sensitive responsiveness to negative child emotions (e.g., Dix et al. 2004).
«The emotional stress caused by the pursuit of perfection and the failure to achieve this goal can evolve into more
severe psychological difficulties,» says Monica Ramirez Basco, psychologist and expert in cognitive - behavioral therapy, and the author of Never Good Enough: How To Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage.
The Correctional Investigator found that the use of physical restraints, clinical seclusion, suicide watch, and segregation to manage people with serious
psychological difficulties remains problematic.
My goal is to add value to your experience by helping you understand and
transform psychological difficulties such as anxiety, creative blocks, depression, emotional problems, PTSD, relationships, self - esteem, social anxiety, stress, trauma, work addiction, and living a more meaningful and purpose - driven life.
Custodial grandchildren are at - risk for
psychological difficulties due to neglect and abuse by birth parents, challenges to parenting faced by custodial grandparents, and limited access to services.
While divorce itself places children at risk for
various psychological difficulties, research has shown that the strongest predictor of child maladjustment after divorce is exposure to high levels of inter-parental conflict, particularly when the conflict is hostile, aggressive, poorly resolved, and focused on issues pertaining to the children.
Although we used aggregate scores based on father - reports and mother - reports of child behavior problems and we observed child prosocial behavior in the home, future studies should include observations of child externalizing problems and interviews of child internalizing problems (e.g., the Berkeley Puppet Interview; Ringoot et al. 2013) to avoid potential response biases based on parents»
own psychological difficulties.
Although previous studies have shown that mothers»
psychological difficulties influence fathers» parenting practices in terms of affect expression during parent — child interactions and their sensitive responses to child signals (e.g., Goodman 2008; Ponnet et al. 2013), these studies did not include parent — child discussions of emotions.
To clarify whether children's internalized ideas about which emotions are more accepted in males and females indeed influence the link between
parental psychological difficulties and child social - emotional development, research into potentially gendered ways in which children experience and conceive their fathers» and mothers» psychopathology symptoms is needed.
TF - CBT can also be used with children and adolescents who experience
other psychological difficulties, including obsessive compulsion, separation anxiety, grief, and other mental health conditions.