Understanding the behavior problems that are most associated with increased stress in parents of children with special needs may help guide interventions.
Efforts to reduce child maltreatment among military families should be based in an understanding of the current research on preventative interventions and the factors that influence their effectiveness.
Efforts to reduce child maltreatment among military families should be based in an understanding of the current research on preventative interventions and the factors that influence their effectiveness.
Objective: Parenting through the deployment cycle presents unique stressors for military families.
Deployment may have a unique impact on very young children (i.e., birth to six years old) in military families. This study evaluated the efficacy of an eight-module home-visiting program directed at increasing postdeployment parenting functioning in military families with very young children.
Organized youth programs can serve as a context in which youth are connected to resource-bearing adults in the community who promote the development of social capital. This article explores the process of how this happens and what types of resources are gained by youth.
An exploration of how youth may become connected to adult leaders in their community through a social capital lens was conducted. Furthermore the study examined the process that youth engaged in when forming relationships with adult leaders.
Maltreated children are at increased risk for behavior problems.This study examines a model in which shame mediates the potential relation between maltreatment and anger, and anger mediates the potential relation between shame and behavior problems.
An examination of young children's adjustment to maltreatment was conducted. More specifically this study tests a model that states a child's shame is the link between maltreatment and anger, and anger is the link between and child's shame and behavior problems.
Transactional cascades among child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and fathers’ and mothers’ posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were examined in a sample of families with a male parent who had been deployed to recent military conflicts in the Middle East.