Objective: The present research tested the hypothesis that maternal care moderates the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and subsequent military sexual trauma (MST).
Based upon research indicating that Veterans who had experienced child sexual abuse were at higher risk for military sexual trauma (MST), this study seeks to discover whether maternal care serves as a protective factor in that association.
In this investigation we examined the developmental correlates and predictors of maternal emotional availability in interactions with their 7-year-old children among a sample of families at psychosocial risk.
Maternal emotional availability (i.e., nonhostility, sensitivity, and nonintrusiveness) is important for children's functioning. Mothers and children were observed and tested in infancy and middle childhood to assess maternal interactive behaviors and child outcomes.
Behavioral parent training (BPT) includes a variety of evidence-based treatments with diverse techniques to alter parent behavior. Parent_Child Interaction Therapy is an innovative BPT with its use of in vivo feedback (i.e., ‘‘coaching’’) during parent_child interactions.
Parent educators use many different strategies in order to increase positive parenting behavior. This study investigated the use of in-the-moment coaching (i.e., coaching offered during parent-child interactions) for mothers with young children.
Research indicates that parents’ methods of emotion socialization impact the development of their children’s emotion expressivity, which, in turn, is implicated in the emergence of internalizing symptoms.
Parent responses to children's emotional expressions play a large role in the way that children learn to regulate and cope with emotions. Families in the current study reported on child emotion regulation and depressive symptoms and parent responses to child expression of anger and sadness.
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Quality Improvement System (QIS) developed and implemented by Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County (Florida) as a voluntary initiative to improve the quality of childcare and education.
An investigation around the effectiveness of the Quality Improvement System (QIS) developed and implemented by Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County (Florida) was conducted.