All in all, the main message that I took away from the talk from Dr Lanky, in
relation to child anxiety and separated parents, is the need for more self - compassion and compassion for each other, as parents, so that the children experience their parents working together in a positive, constructive, respectful and peaceful way ensuring that the children feel loved, safe and secure, despite the major changes going on in their lives.
Not exact matches
The purpose of this study was
to test Manassis» proposal (
Child - parent
relations: Attachment and
anxiety disorders, 255 — 272, 2001) that attachment patterns (secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized) may relate
to different types of
anxiety symptoms, and that behavioral inhibition may moderate these
relations.
Moreover, heightened monitoring moderated
relations between early behavioural inhibition and later
anxiety disorders.49 Thus, like attention bias
to threat, executive processes of inhibitory control and cognitive monitoring moderate
child temperament towards heightened risk for
anxiety.
Being excluded, rejected, and victimized by peers can have long - term negative consequences for young
children.1 In particular, the experience of chronic peer victimization in early childhood can promote the later development of
anxiety and depression.14 Unfortunately, not only are anxious and depressive
children more prone
to experience problematic peer
relations, they also appear
to be particularly vulnerable
to the negative impact of these experiences.28, 29,30 For example, Gazelle and Ladd31 found that kindergarten
children displaying early signs of
anxiety who were also excluded by peers were more likely
to remain anxious and develop depressive symptoms through the 4th grade.
Because only some
children with behavioural inhibition go on
to develop
anxiety disorders it is important
to identify both the endogenous and exogenous factors that moderate temperament psychopathology
relations.
Psychologists can also work with
children and their families in
relation to normalising and managing feelings of
anxiety or stress for both the
child and their caregivers.
Relations of positive and negative affectivity
to anxiety and depression in
children: Evidence from a latent variable longtudinal study.
The complex
relations between coparenting and
anxiety involve at least two bidirectional effects: that from parental
anxiety to coparenting and vice versa and that from
child anxiety to coparenting and vice versa.
The current study tested a moderated mediational model
to investigate the respective effects of peer victimization and nurturing parenting on the
relation between fearful temperament and
child anxiety.
However, meta - analytic data have shown little evidence so far
to support the assumed
relation between parental
anxiety and overcontrol of their
child (d =.08; Bruggen et al. 2008).
To recap, this study examined the
relations between behavioral inhibition and (social)
anxiety symptoms, on the one hand, and symptoms of SM, on the other hand, in a sample of young, non-clinical
children.
Thus, the majority of studies point
to bidirectional
relations between greater coparenting difficulties and higher levels of
child anxiety, although there is some mixed evidence suggesting coparenting difficulties are associated with lower
child anxiety.
Nurturing parenting did not mediate the temperament
to child anxiety relation directly.
Two studies addressed prospective
relations between coparenting and
child temperamental predispositions
to anxiety.
Although research has demonstrated that traditional cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective tool in
relation to childhood
anxiety (e.g., Barrett et al., 2001; Hirshfeld - Becker et al., 2008), meta - analytical investigations have shown only moderate effect sizes for the efficacy of CBT with
children and called for the improvement of traditional CBT treatment (Reynolds et al., 2012).
The proposed framework is
to be regarded as the beginnings of a conceptualization of the relevant socio - emotional factors and their
relation to each other, as well as
to child anxiety.
Only one study has previously reported on
relations between parental psychopathology and stressful life events prior
to the onset of
anxiety disorders in
children.
Finally, we investigated the associations between the subscales of the SCARED - R and the overall measures of emotion understanding, emotion regulation, and attachment security, in order
to see which aspects of
children's
anxiety symptoms explained the
relations among the overall measures.
Longitudinal research is needed
to clarify the nature and direction of
relations between parental psychopathology, parent - dependent stressors and the timing of clinical episodes of
anxiety in
children.
It has also been demonstrated that socially anxious
children experience difficulties in understanding the
relations between emotions, intentions, and beliefs in social situations (Banerjee and Henderson, 2001), and that a decreased ability
to differentiate between emotions relates
to social
anxiety in
children and adolescents (Rieffe et al., 2008).
Although significant progress has been made in recent years in
relation to the identification and treatment of
anxiety in preschool
children, it remains unclear which
children should be targeted for early intervention and what the focus of early intervention should be.
More research is needed
to study the
relation between emotion understanding and emotion regulation in
children with
anxiety disorders.
The current study examined a large, well - characterized sample of
children and adolescents with ASD
to examine the
relations among friendship, ASD symptom severity, and
anxiety / depression.
This was the first study
to investigate the
relations among
anxiety, emotion understanding, emotion regulation, and attachment security in the same sample of clinically anxious
children.
Investigated the trajectory of maternal emotional wellbeing (i.e. separate measures of
anxiety and depression) in
relation to child variables (i.e. ASD symptoms and problem behaviour) at 18 - month intervals across a ten - year period.