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Direct linkOliveira-Formosinho, Julia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2009
The purpose of the research study presented in this article is to look at the ways that a specific group of children think about their families and to develop contextualized methods for listening to children's perspectives about their families. It starts with a brief presentation of the theoretical and pedagogical context where the study has been…
Descriptors: Play, Childhood Attitudes, Data Interpretation, Parent Child Relationship
Jonker, Liezl; Greeff, Abraham P. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
In South Africa, a substantial burden is placed on families living with people with mental illnesses. The aim of this study was to identify resilience factors in families living in an underprivileged area, caring for people with mental illnesses. Data was obtained from family representatives (N=34) using semistructured interviews and a set of…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Family Relationship, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
Harte, Helene Arbouet – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study examines perspectives of parents of children with autism related to engagement in the home environment. Increased engagement decreases the likelihood of less productive behaviors. Investigation of engagement in the home setting may provide insights into the development of interventions. Collaboration between parents and…
Descriptors: Autism, Musical Instruments, Family Environment, Teaching Methods
Greeff, Abraham P.; van der Walt, Kerry-Jan – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
The primary aim of this study was to identify characteristics and resources that families have that enable them to adapt successfully and be resilient despite the presence of an autistic child in the family. The study was rooted within the contextual framework of the Resilience Model of Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation of McCubbin and McCubbin…
Descriptors: Autism, Beliefs, Coping, Foreign Countries
Holmbeck, Grayson N.; Devine, Katie A. – Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2010
A developmentally oriented bio-neuropsychosocial model is introduced to explain the variation in family functioning and psychosocial adjustment in youth and young adults with spina bifida (SB). Research on the family functioning and psychosocial adjustment of individuals with SB is reviewed. The findings of past research on families of youth with…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Congenital Impairments, Young Adults, Adjustment (to Environment)
Doohan, Eve-Anne M.; Carrere, Sybil; Siler, Chelsea; Beardslee, Cheryl – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
This study examined how the marital bond, as indexed through the Oral History Interview (OHI), is related to future triadic family interactions. Families (N = 108), with a 7-9-year-old child, participated in a longitudinal study (the Family Health Project) examining children's emotional development throughout the transition to adolescence.…
Descriptors: Oral History, Family Problems, Parent Child Relationship, Problem Solving
Santiago, Catherine DeCarlo; Wadsworth, Martha E. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2009
Family conflict is exacerbated by poverty-related stress and is detrimental to adolescent mental health. Adolescent coping with family conflict has the potential to buffer or exacerbate the negative effects of family conflict on internalizing symptoms. We examined coping with family conflict among 82 low-income adolescents (53.7% female, mean age…
Descriptors: Poverty, Gender Differences, Minority Groups, Conflict
Myers, Barbara J.; Mackintosh, Virginia H.; Goin-Kochel, Robin P. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2009
Parents of children in the autism spectrum wrote an open-ended answer via an online questionnaire to the question, "How has your child in the autism spectrum affected your life and your family's life?" (N = 493). Using a qualitative content analysis, 15 negative themes and 9 positive themes were identified. Themes are subsumed into five clusters:…
Descriptors: Autism, Well Being, Parents, Content Analysis
Pagani, Linda S.; Japel, Christa; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Cote, Sylvana; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
Using data from three waves of a large Canadian data set, we examine the relationship between two middle childhood trajectory variables, family dysfunction and anxiety. We draw upon family systems theory and developmental psychopathology, while attempting to expand their boundaries by capitalizing on the strengths within both approaches. Our data…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Size, Systems Approach, Psychopathology
Barth, Richard P.; Green, Rebecca; Webb, Mary Bruce; Wall, Ariana; Gibbons, Claire; Craig, Carlton – Child Welfare, 2008
A national probability sample of children who have been in child welfare supervised placements for about one year identifies the characteristics (e.g., age, training, education, health, and home) of the foster parents, kinship foster parents, and group home caregivers. Caregiving respondents provided information about their backgrounds.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Caregivers, Family Relationship, Group Homes
Star, Katharina L.; Cox, Jane A. – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2008
Couples and family counselors have a long history of using creative techniques with their clients. Counselors can use creative arts to help clients express deep emotions, gain self-awareness, and move toward individual and family goals. There are numerous ways in which counselors can incorporate creative strategies in their work with couples and…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Creativity, Photography
Dwairy, Marwan; Achoui, Mustafa – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
Connectedness between children and their family is a major factor that distinguishes between collective and individualistic cultures. The "Multigenerational Interconnectedness Scale", measuring adolescents-family connectedness was administered to adolescents in nine western and eastern countries. The findings show that connectedness in eastern…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Cross Cultural Studies, Gender Differences
Dwairy, Marwan; Achoui, Mustafa – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2010
Parental control is among the important factors influencing the psychological development of children. In addition to other questionnaires, a questionnaire of father and mother control was administered to adolescents in nine countries. The results showed that parental control differs across cultures. Parental control was higher in the eastern than…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Questionnaires
Jokela, Markus; Power, Chris; Kivimaki, Mika – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Childhood externalizing and internalizing behaviors have been associated with injury risk in childhood and adolescence, but it is unknown whether this association continues to hold in adulthood. We examined whether externalizing and internalizing behaviors expressed in childhood predict injuries in childhood, adolescence, and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Family Size, Injuries, Children
Feeny, Norah C.; Silva, Susan G.; Reinecke, Mark A.; McNulty, Steven; Findling, Robert L.; Rohde, Paul; Curry, John F.; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Kratochvil, Christopher J.; Pathak, Sanjeev M.; May, Diane E.; Kennard, Betsy D.; Simons, Anne D.; Wells, Karen C.; Robins, Michele; Rosenberg, David; March, John S. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This article explores aspects of family environment and parent-child conflict that may predict or moderate response to acute treatments among depressed adolescents (N = 439) randomly assigned to fluoxetine, cognitive behavioral therapy, their combination, or placebo. Outcomes were Week 12 scores on measures of depression and global impairment. Of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cognitive Restructuring, Adolescents, Family Environment
