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Murrell, Amy R.; Scherbarth, Andrew J. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2011
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999) has been found effective in treating a wide number of psychological conditions affecting adults. To date, however, little research has been done on the use of ACT with youth and parents. Few efforts have been made at summarizing the literature that does exist. This article,…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Behavior Modification, Children, Adolescents
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Bolte, Sven; Knecht, Susan; Poustka, Fritz – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
To probe the specificity of traits that might be conceptualised as the broader phenotype of autism, parents of subjects with autism from simplex and multiplex families as well as parents of subjects with obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD), early onset schizophrenia (EOS) and mental retardation (MR) were assessed using the Personality Style and…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Schizophrenia, Depression (Psychology), Autism
Mohammadi, Mohammad-Reza, Ed. – InTech, 2011
The aim of the book is to serve for clinical, practical, basic and scholarly practices. In twentyfive chapters it covers the most important topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in the efficient way and aims to be useful for health professionals in training or clinicians seeking an update. Different people with autism can have very different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk, Cultural Differences, Quality of Life
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Heilbrun, Alfred B., Jr. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
This experiment was a further test of the proposal that comparability in lifestyles exists between normal college males who have adopted closed and open styles of coping with aversive maternal control and the life-styles of process and reactive schizophrenics. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, College Students, Males
Magaro, Peter A. – J Genet Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Concept Formation, Group Behavior
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Goodman, Sherryl H.; Brumley, H. Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Studied schizophrenic, depressed, and well women to determine the quality of their parenting and its affect on their three-month to five-year-old's social and intellectual development. Mothers' parenting practices, not their diagnostic status, accounted for much of the children's intellectual and social competence. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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Wahl, Otto F. – Teaching of Psychology, 1989
Considers the treatment of family causation of schizophrenia in undergraduate abnormal psychology textbooks. Reviews texts published only after 1986. Points out a number of implications for psychologists which arise from the inclusion in these texts of the idea that parents cause schizophrenia, not the least of which is the potential for…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Emotional Disturbances, Higher Education, Parent Child Relationship
Leibowitz, Gerald – 1971
The basic purpose of this study was to measure cognitive similarity, and to test the hypothesis that the cognitive organization of a child (normal or schizophrenic) is more like that of his own parents than it is like that of randomly chosen, unrelated adults. Thirty-six matched family triads, half with sons hospitalized for a schizophrenic…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Corfman, Eunice, Ed. – 1979
The second of two volumes, this book contains 21 studies of children and families. Selections, grouped into three sections, are intended to provide a representative sample of current research, including case studies and less formal reports. The first section reports on families in distress. Articles focus on adults who were antisocial children,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Autism, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse