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Rodriguez, Christina M.; Eden, Ann M. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2008
Reduction of ineffective parenting is promoted in parent training components of mental health treatment for children with externalizing behavior disorders, but minimal research has considered whether disciplinary style and lower abuse risk could also be associated with positive functioning in such children. The present study examined whether lower…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse, Caregivers
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Dallaire, Danielle H.; Cole, David A.; Smith, Thomas M.; Ciesla, Jeffrey A.; LaGrange, Beth; Jacquez, Farrah M.; Pineda, Ashley Q.; Truss, Alanna E.; Folmer, Amy S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
Community, demographic, familial, and personal risk factors of childhood depressive symptoms were examined from an ecological theoretical approach using hierarchical linear modeling. Individual-level data were collected from an ethnically diverse (73% African-American) community sample of 197 children and their parents; community-level data were…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Neighborhoods, Poverty, Prevention
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Sharkin, Bruce S.; Plageman, Paula M.; Coulter, Lisa P. – Journal of College Counseling, 2005
Help-seeking (HS) students and non-help-seeking (NHS) students were compared on their perceptions of (a) their own level of mental health functioning and (b) the average level of mental health functioning of their (NHS or HS) peers. Results showed that NHS students' perceptions of HS students' self-ratings were similar to HS students' self-ratings…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Goldstein, David M. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1990
Examines ways to apply control theory to the clinical practice of psychology. Offers general methods to assess psychological problems and to facilitate healthful change. Profiles what constitutes mental health from a control systems perspective, emphasizing the control of variables to achieve desired ends. (CH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Theories, Clinical Psychology, Intention
Olson, Roberta A.; Chaney, John M. – 1983
To examine the effects of an 8-week parent/child cognitive behavioral treatment intervention on physiological, symptomatic, and behavioral indices of asthma, a comparison was made of results on 1-year pre-intervention and 1-year post-intervention assessments. The first year of the study involved a retrospective collection of medical data for 18…
Descriptors: Asthma, Children, Coping, Locus of Control
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Damji, Tasleem; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Examines the effect of situational variations of ethnic identity and their relationship to measures of psychosocial adjustment. Among French Canadian university students, English-speaking students who identified strongly with their first language group but exhibited a high degree of inter-situational variation experienced more stress, depression,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Analysis of Variance, Cultural Interrelationships, Depression (Psychology)