Background: The presence of children with autism spectrum disorder in the family imposes great pressure on family members especially on mothers. Mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder are faced with numerous challenges that expose them to high levels of stress and other negative psychological consequences. This study is conducted in order to compare levels of perceived stress, family...

Background and purpose: Nutritional behavior of children depends largely on the behavior of their parents, especially their mothers. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine and compare the nutritional behaviors of mothers of overweight and obese children with those of normal weight children. Materials and methods: This descriptive-analytical case-control study was performed in element...

Background & Aims: Most previous studies have shown that the language abilities of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are weaker than normal children. But there is no study that examines the impact of ADHD on all areas of linguistic abilities at the same time. The purpose of this study was to investigate the lack of simultaneous and separately linguistic functions in ...

Introduction: Psychologists emphasise on the relationships between children and caregivers, and they assign this reciprocal reactions as a main base of affectional, cognitive and social development. Indeed developmental health in each period is caused by some factors such as secure attachment as a main one. Objective: Therefore the relationship between attachment style and social development ...

 Introduction: Due to the profound impact of mentally retarded children on the lives of family members, especially mothers, and the lack of research in this area, the aim of this study was to compare psychological disturbance, life orientation, difficulty in regulating emotion and emotional schemas in mothers of mentally retarded children and Sabzevar is a normal city.  Methods: The method of t...

The birth of a child with mental disorder in the family results in problems for family members and causes mental stress in a variety of ways among them, especially the parents, therefore, the aim of present research is to compare anger level, parental tension and coping strategies with the stress of mothers who have mentally retarded children with normal children's mothers. The statistical popu...