Children enrolled in prekindergarten in a New York City school district participated in a randomized controlled trial of a 13-session parenting intervention program.
Cluster analyses with the three global scores of the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents™ (RSCA) were used to determine personal resiliency profiles within normative (641) and outpatient clinical (285) samples of youth aged 9 to 18 years.
Survey data were used to determine resiliency profiles of a normative and an outpatient clinical sample of youth. This research examined the background characteristics associated with each profile and compared the profiles of the normative sample to those of the clinical samples.
Cognitive representations of peer relationships were conceptualised as the attributions children make about the intentions of others and children’s peer affiliation, or desire to interact with peers. Measures of these two constructs were developed and administered to 55 four‐ to six‐year‐olds.
Preschoolers' cognitive representations of peer relations (e.g., peer affiliation and hostile attributions of peers' intentions) and their associations with prosocial peer-related behaviors and peer competence was assessed utilizing observations and child and teacher surveys.
Significant rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration have been identified among men with military backgrounds.
Baseline measures and one-year post-program recidivism data were examined from military experienced and nonmilitary men referred for an interpersonal violence intervention program to test differences regarding intimate partner violence perpetration.
The longitudinal associations between maternal parenting behavior and toddler risk with children's emotional and social competence were examined during the transition to kindergarten, in a sample of 253 children.
Observational and survey data were used to explore the interactions between maternal parenting behavior and toddler risk (i.e., externalizing behaviors such as aggression and destructive behavior and poor emotion regulation) as predictors of individual differences in children's emotional and
The purpose of the present study was to conduct a test of acceptability of a new model for family-focused drug prevention programs for families of early adolescents.