Pediatric client-centered intervention planning is particularly complex because children, parents, and professionals must form a "tridactic" partnership and reach a shared understanding for therapy. Therapists may use child self-reports to facilitate children's involvement in this process. The purpose of this study was to understand how therapists used and interpreted a child self-report to ach...

This study compared individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and a supportive child-centered therapy (CCT) for child anxiety disorders on rates of treatment response and recovery at posttreatment and 1-year follow-up, as well as on real-world measures of emotional functioning. Youth (N = 133; ages 9-14) with anxiety disorders (generalized, separation, and/or social anxiety) were randomized...

Parent-child interaction therapy is a parent-mediated approach that focuses on solving internalization-externalization problems observed in children aged 2-7. The based parenting styles, attachment theory, behavioral and social learning theories aims to teach play skills parents. In this direction, each stage was organized as teaching coaching sessions an included two phases: child-directed pha...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of play therapy combined with a traumatic cognitive-behavioral approach on the symptoms of trauma and the feeling of loneliness of the victims of sexual abuse. Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population comprised all sexually-abused Afghan girls...

BACKGROUND Emerging empirical evidence suggests exposure to "green" environments may encourage higher levels of physical activity among children. Few studies, however, have explored this association exclusively in pre-school aged children in the United States. We examined whether residing in neighborhoods with higher levels of greenness was associated with higher levels of outdoor physical acti...

Theoretical analyses of the development of numerical representations suggest that playing linear number board games should enhance young children's numerical knowledge. Consistent with this prediction, playing such a game for roughly 1 hr increased low-income preschoolers' (mean age = 5.4 years) proficiency on 4 diverse numerical tasks: numerical magnitude comparison, number line estimation, co...

Parenting x Child Personality interactions in predicting child externalizing and internalizing behavior were investigated in a variable-centered study and a person-centered study. The variable-centered study used data from a 3-year longitudinal study of 600 children 7 to 15 years old at Time 1 and 512 children 10 to 18 years old at Time 2. Parents rated child personality (five factor model), ne...

Adherence to treatment appointments by mothers of children with Cerebral Palsy is one the factors affected in rehabilitation a child Palsy, and this cardinal ensure effective outcomes for child. Hence study aimed explore influencing poor adherence physiotherapy at Chilenje Hospital, Lusaka. A qualitative case design utilising phenomenological approach was conducted sample 12 palsy from Convenie...