As the war in Afghanistan for many United States service members is coming to an end, focus on veteran recovery and mental health maintenance is emerging.
Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit organization involved with community outreach to support the educational needs of children and to foster healthy, strong families.
The temporary absence of a parent (e.g., due to incarceration, migration, or military deployment) is experienced by many youth and can have profound effects.
Guided by the understanding of the unique problems faced by children of deployed military parents and boys who grow up with an absent father, this theoretical study examines their convergence.
Many studies have examined effects of prenatal stress on pregnancy and fetal development, especially on prematurity and birthweight, and more recently long-term effects on child behavioral and emotional deve
Servicemembers' family members may experience significant stress related to deployment of their loved ones.
This study presents a model of harsh parenting that has an indirect effect, as well as a direct effect, on child aggression in the school environment through the mediating process of child emotion regulation.
325 Chinese kindergartners participated in a study examining the effect of harsh parenting on child behavior. Mothers’ harsh parenting affected child emotion regulation more strongly than did fathers. However, harsh parenting emanating from fathers had a stronger effect on child aggression.
354 Swedish eighth graders and their parents participated in a study investigating the extent to which adolescents’ achievement strategies are associated with the parenting styles of their families.
The aim of the study was to investigate the extent to which adolescents' achievement strategies are associated with the parenting styles they experience in their families.