Formal
studies of children in broken homes didn't really start until the»80s when there were children of divorce to study and a fierce need for relevant data.
In an integrative data analysis, we combined observations over ages 2 through 17 from two
longitudinal studies of children of alcoholic parents and matched controls recruited from the community.
In study after
study of children at risk, the single strongest predictor of resilient outcome is a positive, lasting relationship with a supportive adult.
Work through several
case studies of children and gain an understanding of the process that occurred within the play therapy treatment 5.
In this sample, we had found high rates of parental ADHD problems which were consistent to rates found in
other studies of children with ADHD [16, 27].
Studies of children undergoing significant hardship find that kids who have one adult in their lives who provide stability and support are much more likely to do well than kids who don't.
However, numerous scientific
studies of children facing great adversity have shown just how important resilience is for successful growth.
A short - term
longitudinal study of children's playground games across the first year of school: implications for social competence and adjustment to school.
The study looked at data from the Quebec Longitudinal
Study of Child Development on 1363 children born in 1997/98 who were followed until age 15 years.
Conducted over two years, the Multimodal
Treatment Study of Children with ADHD included 579 ADHD children at six different university medical centers.
John C. Wright and Aletha C. Huston, a husband - and - wife team at the Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children at the University of Kansas, conducted the five - year
study of children from low - income families in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
Its new report, Missing Education, also highlights case
studies of children who do not attend school or receive an education at home.
One
study of Child FIRST found positive effects on involvement with child protective services at three years.24 There are studies of Early Head Start — Home Visiting (EHS — HV), HFA, Healthy Steps, and NFP that measure effects on emergency room or doctor visits for injuries or ingestions but only NFP showed positive effects.13, 18,25,26
Some studies of adult workers, however, have shown that high exposures can trigger neurological problems, and small, earlier
studies of children found links to mental retardation and decreased IQs.
Mothers» attachment style, their mental health, and their children's emotional vulnerabilities: a 7 -
year study of children with congenital heart disease.
The study used data from MCRI's Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (CATS) which is a unique longitudinal
study of children as they approach adolescence.
Large studies of children whose mothers were infected with influenza during the last months of their pregnancy, for example, have a roughly twofold increase in risk of developing the syndrome compared with the general population.
In a different
study of children between three and five years old, researchers found «that solitary sleepers were far more likely to use a security object than co-sleepers.
Similar parenting stress for fathers and mothers had also been found in
earlier studies of children with ADHD (Baker 1994) and children without ADHD (Deater - Deckard and Scarr 1996).
Familial subtypes of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder: a 4 - year follow -
up study of children from antisocial - ADHD families
The largest ever
genetic study of children with previously undiagnosed rare developmental disorders has discovered 14 new developmental disorders.
A widely used pesticide — banned in homes but still commonly used on farms — appears to harm boys» developing brains more than girls», according to a
new study of children in New York City.
Responding to concerns about the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system, particularly African - American children, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory
qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children of color.
She is a nationally recognized expert on accountability for early childhood programs, assessment, and large -
scale studies of children with disabilities, serving on national advisory boards and consulting to major evaluations to help create designs that adequately address such issues as oversampling and measurement of disability.
The
Australian Study of Child Health in Same - Sex Families (ACHESS) surveyed 315 parents with children up to 17 years of age to determine the overall health and wellbeing of children with same - sex parents.