Parental empowerment as a buffer between parental stress and child behavioral problems after family treatment

Parental separation and children's behavioral/emotional problems: the impact of parental representations and family conflict.

In this longitudinal study, we examine whether the effect of parental separation on kindergarten children's behavioral/emotional problems varies according to the level of family conflict, and children's parental representations. One hundred and eighty seven children were assessed at ages 5 and 6. Family conflict was assessed using parents' ratings. Children's parental representations were asses...

Etiological contributions to the covariation between children's perceptions of inter-parental conflict and child behavioral problems.

Prior work has suggested that inter-parental conflict likely plays an etiological role in child behavior problems. However, family-level measurement of inter-parental conflict in most traditional child twin studies has made it difficult to tease apart the specific causal mechanisms underlying this association. The Children's Perception of Inter-parental Conflict scale (CPIC) provides a child-sp...

Parental Time , Family Income , and Child Outcomes

Parents make many decisions that involve a tradeoff between the amount of time and material resources they provide to their children. In this paper I examine to what degree additional family income can compensate for a decrease in parent-child time in terms of child outcomes. I use within-family variation in the amount of parental time and family income that children receive. Parents generally ...

Relationship Between Child Behavior Problems, Parental Stress, Child Abuse Potential, and Substance Use Among Mothers in the Child Welfare System

Parental response to child injury: examination of parental posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories following child accidental injury.

OBJECTIVE Trajectory analyses were used to empirically differentiate patterns of posttraumatic stress symptoms in parents following child accidental injury and explore the relationship between parent and child recovery patterns. METHOD Parent (n = 189) self-reported symptoms from acute to 2 years post accident were examined to (1) identify distinct parent symptom trajectories; (2) identify ri...