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We included data on adolescents' educational status, legal problems, and substance use in the analysis.
Using quantitative data from three surveys, we analysed the development in children and adolescents and their families, all of whom were engaged in youth welfare services (N = 59).
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PMID: 21128219
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The understanding of a television story can be very different depending on the age of the viewer, their background knowledge, the content of the programme and the way in which they combine the information gathered from linguistic, audio and visual elements. This study explores the different ways of...
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PMID: 20977025
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This article represents an empirical study of adolescent's self-relation in a family where the mother has re-married. In many studies self-awareness and its functional aspect--self-relation--are selected as new stages in adolescence. The family is considered to be the most important factor in a chil...
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PMID: 20977021
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By now psychoeducation is also recommended for the treatment of depression, due to data showing high acceptance and efficacy regarding a broad range of clinical variables. The impact of family-involvement by groups for relatives is not sufficiently studied yet, but findings concerning other severe m...
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PMID: 21043021
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With the beautiful and dark film "The white ribbon", from 2009, the Austrian film director Michael Haneke consolidated his status as an international success. A central theme in his films is evilness and its roots. But just as important is his ambition to develop films where evil is not only portray...
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PMID: 20882085
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Inner-city relationships face numerous challenges including illegal drug use and its consequences. The nature of this challenge, however, has changed dramatically with a shift from the crack subculture of the 1980s and early 1990s to the subsequent marijuana/blunts subculture. This study presents da...
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PMID: 21053755
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Consistent with developmental cascade notions, the present study investigated (a) associations between trajectories of interparental conflict and early externalizing problems during childhood and (b) early trajectories of externalizing problems as a pathway by which interparental conflict impacts ch...
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PMID: 20576176
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This study examined developmental processes linking competence and psychopathology in an urban sample of girls during their transition to adolescence. Longitudinal associations among indices of externalizing symptoms, social competence, and internalizing symptoms were also tested within contexts of...
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PMID: 20576183
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We take a fully relational approach to criticism by testing an actor-partner interdependence model (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006). Patient intended criticism was especially strongly associated with depressive symptoms for wives, whereas patient perceived criticism was especially negatively related to...
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PMID: 20677844
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We address these questions at the level of microprocesses during marital conflict, including children's influence on marital conflict and parents' influence on each other. Participants were 111 cohabiting couples with a child (55 male, 56 female) age 8-16 years. Data were drawn from parents' diary r...
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PMID: 20604608
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We integrated these 2 lines of research by evaluating the moderating influence of early childhood household risk on associations between early puberty and 8th-grade substance use in a longitudinal sample of 1,070 participants. We determined trajectories of early childhood household risk using group-...
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PMID: 20604607
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Existing longitudinal studies on the relationship between working time arrangements (WTA) and work-family conflict have mainly focused on the normal causal relationship, that is, the impact of WTA on work-family conflict over time. So far, however, the reversed relationship, that is, the effect of w...
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PMID: 20636215
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Shiftwork may be a demanding situation because it raises problems for reconciling work and nonwork activities; as such, this conflict may be mitigated by designing and implementing effective preventative actions at the workplace. There is a paucity of research directly examining the impact of work s...
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PMID: 20636219
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We examined relationships between coparenting quality during the mother's jail stay and both concurrent child behavior problems and later coparenting interactions following mothers' release and community reentry. Forty mother-grandmother dyads participated in joint coparenting discussions during the...
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PMID: 20594205
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We often come across with prepsychotic and psychotic disorders. When an adolescent patient has a positive hereditary burden for psychiatric illnesses in both parents, then the qualification of adolescent's mental disorder seems closer to psychotic. We must have in mind that hereditary burden is only...
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PMID: 20562788
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The Couples Underlying Concern Inventory assesses 2 fundamental types of distress that couples experience during interpersonal conflict. Perceived threat involves a perception that one's partner is blaming and controlling the self. Perceived neglect involves a perception that one's partner is failin...
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PMID: 20528056
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Self-report scales assessing relationship-specific incentive and threat sensitivity were created. Initial tests of factor structure and associations with relationship quality were conducted in a sample of persons in intimate relationships (Study 1). Associations with conceptually related measures we...
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PMID: 20528067
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Previous research has linked greater social connectedness with a lowered risk of self-directed violence among adolescents. However, few studies have analyzed the comparative strength of different domains of connectedness (e.g., family, peers and school) to determine where limited resources might bes...
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PMID: 19898780
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Numerous studies indicate interparental conflict causes child externalizing behavior. However, far less is known about the inverse relationship. Exploring this gap in the literature has clear implications for parents of children with externalizing disorders (e.g., attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis...
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PMID: 20455609
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Few studies have examined nonshared environmental risk factors for disordered eating, and none have done so using a longitudinal design. The current project used a longitudinal, monozygotic twin differences design to examine parent-child conflict as a nonshared environmental risk factor for disorder...
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PMID: 20455602
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We developed a questionnaire for measuring aggressive behaviors, which was administered to a sample of 318 adolescents. The questionnaire consisted of six situations (three related to unknown people and three related to relatives) and seven possible behaviors (related to physical and verbal aggressi...
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PMID: 20480687
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We report the associations between CAs and functional impairment associated with 12-month DSM-IV disorders in a national sample.
We used data from the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). Respondents completed diagnostic interviews that assessed 12-month DSM-IV disorder prevalence and...
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PMID: 19732483
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To examine associations among Puerto Rican children's physical health problems and children's internalizing disorders, parental psychopathology and acculturative stress, and family factors. A population-based probability sample of 2491 Puerto Rican children, aged between 5 and 13 years, and caregive...
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PMID: 20386256
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We discuss the role of hypnosis when working psychodynamically with a patient, and whether and when insight is important or necessary for change of behavior....
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PMID: 20499541
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The results support the no-group differences hypothesis and also imply that cultural maintenance may be adaptive for parental well-being....
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PMID: 19609475
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Multilevel models using the couple as the unit of analysis showed that the effects of common positive dyadic coping on cancer-related distress significantly differed for patients and their partners. Whereas partners experienced slightly lower levels of distress, patients experienced slightly higher...
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PMID: 20230090
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Results suggest that as youth take more responsibility over their medical regimens, family conflict regarding medical issues becomes a contributor to their adherence behaviors. Interventions that target family conflict may facilitate adherence behaviors....
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PMID: 19561010
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We assessed modes of conflict resolution in the parent-child, marriage, and peer-group contexts among 141 Israeli and Palestinian families and their 1st-born toddler. We observed the ecology of parent-child conflict during home visits, the couple's discussion of marital conflicts, and children's con...
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PMID: 20210492
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Research has focused heavily on mother's experiences of children with life-threatening illnesses. In contrast, fathers' experiences, especially among minorities, are scarcely discussed. This study examined the experiences of 15 fathers as primary medical caretakers of children diagnosed with cancer...
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PMID: 20391076
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Parent conflict during infancy may affect rapidly developing physiological regulation. To examine the association between parent conflict and infants' vagal tone functioning, mothers (N = 48) reported levels of parent conflict and their 6-month-old male and female infants' respiratory sinus arrhythm...
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PMID: 20102644
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AIM: The aim of this work was to investigate the impact of life events on the profile of opioid dependent patients. METHOD: Recruitment was achieved through outpatient drug treatment clinic in Birmingham, UK, and data were collected through semistructured interviews. One-hundred and twenty subjects...
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PMID: 20141390
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The authors investigated whether the quality of three family relationships (i.e., marital, parent-child, sibling) in intact families are associated with each other and with children's psychosocial adjustment. Data were collected by means of maternal and child reports (N = 88) using standardized inst...
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PMID: 20486403
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Anorectal malformations (ARM) are not externally visible and have an uncertain medical course. Only about half of the patients with ARM have satisfactory bowel functions. Studies of ARM have reported reduced quality of life and psychosocial problems in up to 73% of the patients. The aim of the curre...
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PMID: 20229842
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Adolescent pregnancy usually leads to notification and involvement of a broad array of sources of support. It is then important to assess risk factors and resources with regard unique to the young woman, as well as to protect the (as yet unborn) child. However, due to the complexity of such cases, h...
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PMID: 20545295
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It seems that those children with functional abdominal pain who cannot adapt to the pain indeed run the risk of developing a somatoform adjustment disorder.
2009 S. Karger AG, Basel....
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PMID: 20051705
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Video-based observation and behavioural analysis of parent-child-interactions are being used increasingly in clinical diagnostics, parent-child consultation and psychotherapy or in evaluation processes. A multiplicity of publications point out positive aspects of the use of video techniques and demo...
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PMID: 20408274
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This article presents an overview on how to structure, carry out and evaluate observed family interaction with video. The emphasis lays on tasks used to stimulate family interaction. The examples cited illustrate different approaches to evaluation. Results of our latest research are presented which...
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PMID: 20408273
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To work with adolescents and their contexts usually means to face certain problems: Parents or teacher want the adolescent to do a counselling or a therapy, the adolescent is not motivated or does not have much of an idea what this means. The problem often causes conflicts between the adolescent and...
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PMID: 20345085
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The purpose of this research is to develop an abbreviated version of Carlson, Kacmar, and Williams's (2000) multidimensional measure of work-family conflict. The abbreviated measure would have high utility in research situations in which a measure representative of the entire theoretical construct i...
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PMID: 20063960
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We studied the impact of 2 types of dementia on marital satisfaction and on the emotional language that spouses use during conflictive marital interactions. Fifteen frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and 16 Alzheimer disease (AD) patient-caregiver couples, and 21 control couples, discussed a relationship...
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PMID: 20220322
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Depression in parents is a significant risk factor for depression in the offspring at all ages, and also modulates depression severity. Depression severity increases with the number of parents affected, but the presence of grandparents without depression may be protective. Most studies have focused...
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PMID: 20141791
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Les "points d'accueil et d'écoute jeunes" are place where youth or young adult in a situation of crisis or in a situation at risk can received help, advices, be oriented. Mediation with the familial or social environment can be conducted. The primary vocation is to help adolescents to mature and to...
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PMID: 20141774
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This qualitative study explored the experiences of seven couples where the female partner experienced depressive symptoms during pregnancy. Female and male partners were interviewed together and data was collected and analyzed according to Colaizzi's ( 1978 ) phenomenological research design. The in...
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PMID: 19916811
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This study examined variables belonging to the family environment that explain the sense of family coherence among husbands (n = 133) and wives (n = 133) in Israel. Specifically, the explanatory variables tested were spousal power relations (as expressed in equality in the division of household labo...
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PMID: 20099564
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The association between depression and relationship distress as well as the impact of treatment for the one on the other was examined across 2 treatment-seeking samples: individuals seeking treatment for depression (N = 120) and couples seeking marital therapy (N = 134 couples). Although there was a...
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PMID: 19968385
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Alzheimer's disease has a negative impact on family relationships and may trigger conflicts between the main caregiver and other family members. The systemic approach evidences the impact of dementia on structural and functional characteristics of the family system. Systemic family therapy is especi...
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PMID: 20031507
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We apply the MF to family therapy where it cannot be predicted what issues the clients will raise in therapy sessions. The MF is flexible enough to be applicable to idiographic data....
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PMID: 19195426
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Toward advancing conceptualizations of the spillover hypothesis, this study examined the conditions and mechanisms underlying the transmission of distress from the interparental relationship to parenting difficulties over a 2-year period in a sample of 233 mothers (M = 35.0 years) and fathers (M = 3...
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PMID: 19899930
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The authors investigated the degree to which parents become more similar to each other over time in their childrearing behaviors. Mothers and fathers of 451 adolescents were assessed at 3 points in time, with 2-year lags between each assessment. Data on parent warmth, harshness, and monitoring were...
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PMID: 19899926
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Results underscore the high effectiveness of educational measures in reducing strain and problem behaviour....
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PMID: 19890818
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A model of mutual responsiveness in adult romantic relationships is proposed. Behaving responsively in conflict-of-interest situations requires one partner to resist the temptation to be selfish and the other partner to resist the temptation to protect against exploitation. Managing risk and the att...
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PMID: 19839690
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The current study investigated change in family processes, including conflict, cohesion, and stress, across the adolescent transition, comparing the developmental trajectories of youth with and without spina bifida. Individual growth curve modeling procedures were utilized to describe the developmen...
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PMID: 19803608
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This study investigated the bidirectional relationships of adolescents' and maternal mood, and the moderating effect by gender and perceived family relationships on these relationships. Data were obtained from 626 adolescent-mother dyads and follow-up data were collected one year later from a subset...
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PMID: 19803600
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Analyses assessed the degrees to which personality accounts for associations between marital quality and parenting and mediates genetic contributions to these relationships. Participants included 318 male and 544 female same-sex twin pairs from the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden. All twins compl...
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PMID: 19803601
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