BACKGROUND Australia's public access residential early parenting services provide programs to assist parents who self-refer, to care for their infants and young children. Treatment programs target infant feeding and sleeping difficulties and maternal mental health. There is limited systematic evidence of maternal and infant mental health, psychosocial circumstances or presenting problems, or th...

BACKGROUND The antecedents and consequences of maternal post-natal anxiety have received comparatively less attention than depression despite being one of the most frequently reported mental health difficulties experienced by parents following childbirth. The aim of this study was to extend emerging literature on post-natal anxiety by investigating the prevalence of maternal anxiety symptoms, a...

Parenting styles are critical for fostering children's empathy and prosociality. Yet these relations haven't been well established for Chinese children, and the underlying mechanisms were seldom explored. Drawing upon parental acceptance-rejection theory and empathy-altruism hypothesis, the objective of this study was to investigate the relationships between perceived parenting styles and altru...

Purpose of this study was comparison of efficacy of child parent relationship therapy and positive parenting on decreasing of symptoms of anxiety and depression of children and maternal efficacy. Research design of this study was semi-experimental research with a pre/post-test design and control group. Among all of the school children who have 7 and 8 aged in Isfahan city in the 2011-2012 schoo...

BACKGROUND Maternal perinatal mental health has been shown to be associated with adverse consequences for the mother and the child. However, studies considering the effect of DSM-IV anxiety disorders beyond maternal self-perceived distress during pregnancy and its timing are lacking. AIMS To examine the role of maternal anxiety disorders with an onset before birth and self-perceived distress ...

Objective: Maternal self-efficacy is defined as beliefs about one’s ability to be successful in the maternal role. Studies have shown that perceived was related depression, perception of infant temperament, and quality mother-infant interactions. The purpose this study conduct an adaptation Turkish version Perceived Parenting Self-Efficacy Tool (PMP S-E Tool). Method: For purpose, three differe...

OBJECTIVE Student mental health may suffer due to unreasonable expectations associated with academic entitlement; permissive parenting may be one source of these expectations. The authors examined the role of academic entitlement as a mediator of the relationship between permissive parenting and psychological functioning. PARTICIPANTS Participants were 524 undergraduate students at a single i...

Researchers have reported that parental authority has linked to levels of child’s self-esteem. Most previous research has shown that authoritative parenting is more beneficial to adolescent self-esteem than authoritarian parenting (Furnham & Cheng, 2000). The effects of authoritarian parenting, however, have yielded contradictory results in Asian cultures. Therefore, the current study aimed to ...

Abstract Purpose of Review Maternal prenatal substance use presents a multilevel risk to child development and parenting. Although parenting interventions are increasingly integrated into treatment, processes have not received equal attention within these interventions. This article aims synthesize the evidence on specific factors affecting early substance-using mothers, as well focusing those ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between drug use and parenting styles perceived by Brazilian adolescent children. METHODS This cross-sectional study enrolled adolescents aged 14 to 19 years that used the Serviço Nacional de Orientações e Informações sobre a Prevenção do Uso Indevido de Drogas (VIVAVOZ). A total of 232 adolescents participated in the study. Phone interviews were conducte...