Helping Parents to Accept Their Exceptional Children

Helping parents by working with their children in individual child therapy

Many practitioners who work with children and families will at some point have experienced the difficulty of engaging parents in addressing problems over their troubled children. Defeated, angry, disappointed or puzzled, it is hard for parents to be told that what they do with their children may radically affect how the child behaves. They are sensitive to feelings of being blamed, and often th...

Exasperating or exceptional? Parents' interpretations of their child's ADHD behavior.

OBJECTIVE Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a commonly diagnosed childhood disorder associated with parent-child conflict and parental stress. This investigation explored whether parents' interpretation of symptomatic behavior predicted negative interactions with and perceptions of their child. METHOD We recruited parents of 7-12 year old children who were diagnosed with ADHD...

Helping parents to understand rare diseases

Rare diseases are not that rare: worldwide, one in 12-17 people will be affected by a rare disease. Newborn screening for rare diseases has been adopted by many European and North American jurisdictions. The results of genetic testing are given to millions of families and children’s guardians who often turn to the Internet to find more information about the disease. We found 42 medical forums a...

Helping children by changing their behavior.

Value transmission in the family: do adolescents accept the values their parents want to transmit?

ISSN 0305-7240 (print)/ISSN 1465-3877 (online)/11/010105–17 © 2011 Journal of Moral Education Ltd DOI: 10.1080/03057240.2011.553797 http://www.informaworld.com Value transmission in the family: do adolescents accept the values their parents want to transmit? Daniela Barni*, Sonia Ranieri, Eugenia Scabini and Rosa Rosnati Athenaeum Centre for Family Studies and Research, Catholic University of M...