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Assessing the Impact of a Multiyear Marriage Education Program
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O'Halloran, Mary Sean; Rizzolo, Sonja; Cohen, Marsha L.; Wacker, Robbyn – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2013
This study measured marital satisfaction of low-income couples in a Western state following participation in the Building Healthy Marriages program, which aimed to educate couples and increase relationship satisfaction. The researchers' goals were the following: To determine the areas in which participants experienced the greatest number of…
Descriptors: Marriage, Family Life Education, Program Effectiveness, Marital Satisfaction
Mommy Hates Daddy: A Child-Parent Psychotherapy Story of Engagement, Domestic Violence, and Intergenerational Ghosts
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Mays, Markita; Lieberman, Alicia F. – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
The impacts of violence for young children and their caregivers are multidimensional. The story of 2-year-old Tyronne, his mother, Josephine, and his father, James, illustrates the use of a relationship-focused treatment, child-parent psychotherapy (CPP), in addressing the traumatic consequences of exposure to violence. This family's story…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Psychotherapy, Parent Child Relationship
Learners on the Move: Responsive Teachers Fill in the Gap for Highly Mobile Students
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Costley, Kevin C. – Online Submission, 2012
The best education no doubt comes from a student staying in one school system from elementary to high school. Some students are fortunate to have a consistent education; some are not as fortunate. Continuity in instruction, learner outcomes, emotional stability, and social relationships prevail when students live in one location as long as…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Geographic Location, Reliability, Outcomes of Education
Marital Conflict in the Context of Parental Depressive Symptoms: Implications for the Development of Children's Adjustment Problems
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Keller, Peggy S.; Cummings, E. Mark; Peterson, Kristina M.; Davies, Patrick T. – Social Development, 2009
Relations among parental depressive symptoms, overt and covert marital conflict, and child internalizing and externalizing symptoms were examined in a community sample of 235 couples and their children. Families were assessed once yearly for three years, starting when children were in kindergarten. Parents completed measures of depressive symptoms…
Descriptors: Conflict, Depression (Psychology), Fathers, Mothers
Feeling Caught between Parents: Adult Children's Relations with Parents and Subjective Well-Being
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Amato, Paul R.; Afifi, Tamara D. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
Research on divorce has found that adolescents' feelings of being caught between parents are linked to internalizing problems and weak parent-child relationships. The present study estimates the effects of marital discord, as well as divorce, on young adult offspring's feelings of being caught in the middle (N=632). Children with parents in…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Marital Satisfaction, Divorce, Parents
Family Instability and Child Maladjustment Trajectories during Elementary School
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Milan, Stephanie; Pinderhughes, Ellen E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
This study examines the relation between family instability and child maladjustment over a 6-year period in 369 children from four communities. Measures were collected annually from kindergarten through fifth grade. In associative growth curve models, family instability trajectories predicted children's externalizing and internalizing behavior…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Family Problems, Family Environment, Children