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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Parents -- Psychology"”.
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Parent-infant skin-to-skin contact's effect on parental oxytocin and stress levels
… contact affect oxytocin and stress levels in the parents? PICO elements: The population studied was parents. The intervention was Skin-to-Skin Contact whilst the comparison was No Comparison. The outcome was parental oxytocin and stress levels. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria: Criteria was used …
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Distress among Parents of Overweight Children with Developmental Disabilities
… health effects for both children and their parents. Previous research has consistently shown that child externalizing and internalizing behaviors are predictive of parenting stress in parents of children with IDD. Less is known about the nature of this relationship when an additional …
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Implementation of the Tennessee divorce and mediation pilot project in Hamilton County: evaluating program effectiveness
As more time and money are invested in training programs, the sponsors of these programs, whether those are corporations, or government agencies, want to know if the training is worth the investment. An evaluation of the training and its effects is needed to answer the questions about the …
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Parental Readiness for Change and Involvement in Treating Children with Obesity
<p>Several studies have demonstrated benefits of parental involvement in intervention programs for Childhood Obesity. However, limited research is available on Parent Readiness for Change. This study utilized archival data from the LLU Growing Fit Obesity Clinic to assess Parent Readiness for …
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Grandparent-Grandchild Attachment as a Predictor of Psychological Adjustment among Youth from Divorced Families
Grandparent-Grandchild Attachment as a Predictor of Psychological Adjustment among Youth from Divorced Families
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Autism and Parental Marital Satisfaction: The Role of Adequacy of Resources
… the influence of children’s level of autism on parents’ reports of their marital satisfaction and examined whether parents’ perception of the adequacy of their resources influenced any demonstrated effects of autism on marital adjustment.</p> <p>Data were collected from approximately 117 parents …
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Psychological Aspects of Ventilator Dependent Children
<p>Rapid advances in medicine and technology have meant more medically invasive procedures as well as the survival of more individuals who are more immanently faced with death. Ventilator-dependent children (due to sleep apnea, neuromuscular disease, and acute physical injury) make up one such …
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The childhood experience of young adults who went through parental separation
… reveals how participants experienced their parents’ separation and how this has left an impact on their attachment with their parents and also with other forms of relationships. This study will also examine participants’ adjustment after parental separation and their perceptions of parental …
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Posttraumatic and Parent Stress in Parents of Infant Heart Transplant Recipients
… consequences never ceases. As a result, parents can be impacted in many ways by this traumatic and demanding experience that begins with the initial diagnosis of their infant and continues into the long-term life course of these children. This life-long process has the potential to cause …
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Parental Depression and Child Behavior Problems: A Closer Examination
<p>Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have higher rates of depressive symptoms, and parental depressive symptoms are strongly associated with problem behaviors in children. However, the direction of effect between parental depression and child behavior problems is unclear. …
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Parental Grief and Loss and the medical Staff Relationship: a Function of Attachment
Each year, too many parents must face the horrific ordeal of having to prepare for the death of their child; thought to be the most traumatic event in the life of an adult (Widger & Picot, 2008). It is in the desperate hours just prior to death that these parents, for many reasons, reach out for …
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Trauma of the Sudden Death of a Child: The Impact on Couple Relationship
… Previous research has indicated that parents who lost their children to sudden death are likely to have serious mental distress and some disruption in functioning. However, there remains an important gap in the current literature regarding the causes and outcomes of interpersonal and …
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The impact of monitoring and the affective relationship between parents and adolescents on problem behavior in high school
… is key to understanding adolescent disclosure to parents regarding their activities (Kerr, Stattin, & Burk, 2010); however, other researchers do not feel that the parent/adolescent affective relationship explains enough variance in adolescent disclosure (Fletcher, Steinberg, & Williams-Wheeler, …