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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mother-child dyad"”.
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Beyond the feeding relationship: mothers' descriptions of interaction within the mother-child dyad
The mother-child relationship is a key determinant of child health. Current evidence acknowledges that impaired mother-child interaction affects social, emotional, cognitive and behavioural development in infants. Disrupted interaction within the mother-child dyad can be caused by a variety of …
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A portfolio of work on mother-child dyad and autism : a counselling psychology perspective
… researchers have reported that parenting a child diagnosed with autism is linked with a high risk of presenting mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. The current study gave the opportunity to eight mothers of children diagnosed with mild or moderate symptoms of autism to …
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Fathers and young-adult children: factors affecting relationship strength
Until recently, most parent-child research has focused on the mother-child dyad or the father-infant or young child relationship. The present study investigated strengths of the father-young adult relationship with respect to the following variables: individuation, intimacy, intimidation, age, …
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The Paradoxical Feminine - Eating Disorders Beyond Gender
… of invasion of receptivity in the primal mother-child dyad, is the fundamental psychological factor in the etiology of eating disorders and that this factor transcends gender. Through articulating what I have coined the male ‘homosexual exception’ in disorders that mostly affect women, I …
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The Paternal Profile in the Context of ASD: Characteristics, Developmental Trajectories, and Predictors of Change
… of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impact the child's abilities to interact with others, especially with the primary caregivers. Most research has focused on investigating the mother-child dyad, but the paternal role in interaction with children with ASD is mainly unexplored (e.g., Rankin, …
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Examining the importance of the family on pre-school attachment and children's social development
… theory are usually provided in terms of the mother-child dyad, isolated from the family. This focus has served to ostracise the caregiving context, once viewed as central to understanding child attachment quality (Bowlby, 1969/1982). While a call for more contextual attachment research has …
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
… the lived experience of being parented in childhood and adolescence in individuals with a long history of heroin/crack cocaine dependence. This investigation uses attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) as a central pillar of the explanatory framework, while …
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One Meal at a time: Nourishment in the Cape Winelands
… both biomedical and social, comes to bear on the mother-child dyad, with a view to secure future health. This thesis tacks between this imaginary (noting registers of temporality and belonging), and everyday lived experience embedded with practices of care. Based on five months of ethnographic …
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Mothers with Chronic Physical Illness and the Parentification of Their Children
… 2003), a large percentage of whom are in their child-rearing stage of life. Incorporating concepts from family systems and family development theories, this exploratory study examined the impact of maternal chronic physical illness on children. Specifically, it examined the extent to which …
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The Relationships Between Stress, Social Support, Maternal Self-Efficacy, Maternal Depression, Maternal Reports of Child Demandingness and Maternal Reports of Child Social and Emotional Quality of Life in a Sample of Overweight and Obese Women Two Years Post Childbirth
… problems in the postpartum period affect both mothers and children. This is particularly salient for mothers who are overweight or obese, who have been shown to be more at risk for adverse postpartum outcomes than mothers who were of a normal weight before pregnancy. The current study examined …
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Maternal Emotion Regulation as a Moderator of Relation of Parenting Stress to Dyadic Interaction in Mother-Child Dyads during Preschool
… implications for the parent and implications for children. Emotion regulation refers to the processes in which one interprets and experiences emotions. Little has been done examining how parenting stress and mother emotion regulation relates to dyadic interaction between mother and child. Because …
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The Expressed Emotion of Mothers of Children with Fragile X Syndrome
<p>A review of the literature revealed that mothers with children with fragile X syndrome (FXS) face many challenges, including managing their child's behavior which is a defining characteristic of children with FXS (Epstein, Riley, & Sobesky, 2002). Parents and professionals have become …
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Maternal autonomy support and control in the United States and China: Moment-to-moment associations with preschoolers’ behavioral regulation
… of maternal autonomy support and control on children’s self-regulation and adjustment. Cross-cultural studies have mainly focused on early adolescence, and the studies in early childhood are limited. Furthermore, the transactional process of mother-child interaction is an important context of …