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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Parents of Adolescents"”.
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Electronic Cigarette Education for Parents of Adolescents
Purpose. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to provide parents of adolescents with The Real Cost campaign’s evidence-based educational handout to increase knowledge of electronic cigarette health risks and improve intentions to discuss these risks with their adolescent. Background. …
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Ecological influences on the developmental status of parents of adolescents
… takes an ecological approach to the examination of developmental status of adults in middle adulthood, with a focus on parents of adolescents, investigating adults' developmental statuses with respect to their children's development. Hypotheses predicted ecological variables would related with …
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Parenting Stress and Parenting Behaviors of Parents of Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
The goal of this dissertation was to examine the extent to which adolescent and parent characteristics predict parenting stress and parenting behaviors of mothers and fathers of adolescents with ADHD. Study 1 examined the relative contribution of parental ADHD and depression symptoms to the …
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Looking at the Picture by Stepping Outside: a Qualitative Study of Parents' of Adolescents Experiences in Family Therapy
Parents with adolescents often find themselves caught in the stress and strain that normally accompanies this stage of life. It is when parents cannot meet the demands of troubled adolescents that they find themselves seeking family therapy. Most of what is reported about the process of therapy …
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A Pilot Study Exploring the Educational and Social/Emotional Benefits of Web-Based Groups for Parents of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
<p>Research has indicated that parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) experience more feelings of isolation, depression and stress than those of children with other disorders including ADHD and Down Syndrome. While these feelings are especially elevated in parents living in rural …
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The Icelandic translation of the Bath Adolescent Pain - Parental Impact Questionnaire (BAP-PIQ) : preliminary psychometric properties of multidimensional measures for parents of adolescents with chronic pain to assess the impact on parents
… one scale, the multidimensional negative effects of having a child or adolescents with chronic pain has on their parents. The Bath Adolescents Pain Questionnaire - Parental Impact Questionnaire (BAP-PIQ) was developed to assess these multidimensional effects by including domains of anxiety, child …
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Developing a tailored mHealth app for legal guardians/caregivers of youth in aftercare for substance use : a theory-driven and user-centered approach.
… at alarming rates. Despite these high rates of use, few teenagers obtain treatment. Those who do, return to use at significant rates posttreatment, suggesting that there are gaps in current treatments for adolescents who use substances. Behavioral parent training has positive effects on …
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Effects of a Parenting Group on Family Relationships and Child Behavior Problems
… study is aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the Parent Project, a structured parenting group used with the parents of adolescents, 12 to 15 years old, who have been identified as experiencing behavior problems. The Parent Project focuses on improving the parent child relationship and …
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CAREGIVERS’ EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES REGARDING THEIR ADOLESCENT’S SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROBLEM
<p>The primary aim of this investigation was to explore caregivers’ emotional experiences regarding their adolescent with substance abuse problems. These researchers systematically examined the literature on caregiver stress and found a large body of studies on caregivers of persons with mental …
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Parental attributions concerning the causes and controllability of adolescent depression
<p>The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parental attributions concerning adolescent depression and levels of negative expressed emotion (EE) within the home by breaking down attributional beliefs into two dimensions: the etiology of the disorder and the …
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Opportunities and barriers to parental involvement at the high school level: A study of inner city African American parents
… involvement is lacking among African American parents of adolescents who attend high school in the inner city. The objective was to understand how to increase parental involvement and support efforts to close the achievement gap. The design was a qualitative research methodology study. The …
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Effects of shared personality types of parents and children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders on parental stress
The increase in reported cases of children with autism calls for an increasing understanding of how their diagnosis affects the relationship between parent and child. This study investigated the interaction of personality types between parents and their children diagnosed with high functioning …
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The role of parents in preventing substance use among adolescents at Elias Motsoaledi Municipality in the Sekhukhune District, Limpopo Province
Substance use among adolescents remains a major global health concern and continues to contribute significantly to the burden of disease worldwide. Despite numerous strategies and policies aimed at prevention, the problem persists and appears to be escalating. This study explored the role of …
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
This project brings together two areas of discussion that are often avoided or completely denied: disability and sexuality. This thesis will employ a disability studies framework to understand the barriers that prevent disabled people from being sexually active citizens. I begin my looking to the …
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Parental Educational Involvement in High School: Practice, Policy, and Implications for Low-Income and Minority Youth
… parental educational involvement strategies with adolescents. Further, extant literature has shown mixed findings regarding the effectiveness of parents’ school choice (i.e. selecting a school regardless of geographic location) for increasing parents’ educational involvement and social capital …
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Sex talk: Factors that influence parent-child communication about sex
<p>Between 50 and 70% of young people are first sexually active between the ages of 15 and 17, and almost 90% by age 18. This early sexual debut puts adolescents at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy if they are uneducated about safe sex. For this reason, it is …
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A Qualitative Study of Parents' Experiences of Having Had an Adolescent Son in a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program
… is available in the literature regarding adolescents with a substance abuse problem, little exists that focuses on the parents' personal experience dealing with this problem. Not many researchers actually interviewed parents--when they did, it was usually for parents' observations of their …
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Examining the effect of motivational intervention on reading expectancies for success and task values of rural high school students : a quantitative study.
As a result of digital displacement, adolescent recreational reading is declining (Twenge et al., 2019). According to a recent Pew survey, 96% of teen respondents reported daily online engagement, and close to 50% described that engagement as almost constant (Faverio & Sidoti, 2024). Meanwhile, …
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"A Walk Through the Jungle at Twilight": How Parents Experience a Transition to Adolescence
This study examined how parents experienced their first child's transition to adolescence. A multiple-case qualitative research design was chosen to examine parents' experiences. Family systems theory and family stress and coping theory provided a theoretical starting point. Participants were …
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Assessment of the educational needs and services for adolescents with traumatic brain injury : the parents' view
… a mail questionnaire to survey the views of parents residing in Texas regarding the educational needs of their adolescent (ages 14-18) with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Of the 233 parents of adolescents who were reported by hospitals as recently acquitting a TBI (in 1997, 1998, or 1999) …
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