Anorexia nervosa (AN) usually onsets in mid-adolescence and presents with serious psychiatric and medical morbidities. Yet, few psychological treatments for this debilitating disorder have been studied. One intervention which involves the parents of the adolescent has proved to be promising, especially in patients with a short duration of illness, i.e., less than three years. The benefits of th...

This study examined whether Mexican-American parents' experiences with discrimination are related to adolescent psychological adjustment over time. The extent to which associations between parent discrimination and adolescent adjustment vary as a function of parents' ethnic socialization of their children was also examined. Participants included 344 high school students from Mexican or Mexican-...

Teen pregnancy and parenting remain important public health issues in the United States around world. A significant proportion of teen parents reside with their families origin, which may positively or negatively affect family structure. parents, defined as those 15 to 19 years age, are at high risk for repeat births. Pediatricians can play an role care adolescent children. This clinical report...

article on adolescent drinking, van der Vorst and colleagues (2010) made recommendations for policy and parenting that are unsupported by their own data and are, I would argue, potentially harmful. The article was presented as a refutation of the idea that parents should model moderate/mealtime drinking for their adolescent offspring (as by permitting the adolescent a few sips of an alcoholic b...

In this longitudinal study, the relationships between parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychological well-being were examined in a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 378) via children's and parents' reports of parent-adolescent conflict. The results indicate that parent-adolescent conflict based on ratings obtained from the different sources was concurrently related to hopelessness, li...

this article investigates father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology. the role of mother has been studied extensively, but the father's role in child psychopathology has been studied much less and is limited to what has been done in the past few decades. this article reviews some of the studies regarding father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology, namely att...

Parent-adolescent conflict, which is affected by many factors, is one of the most important problems in many families with adolescents. This study, which was conducted via a qualitative method on the basis of grounded theory, aimed at identifying the underlying factors of parent-adolescent conflicts. Using theoretical, purposive, and voluntary sampling, a total number of 14 couples were selecte...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between mothers' report of parental weight talk about her daughter, herself, and others, and adolescent girls' weight-related behaviors and cognitions among a socio-demographically diverse population of mothers and their adolescent daughters. METHODS Data were drawn from the baseline assessment of 218 mother/adolescent daughter ...

Current research does not always place adolescent sexual behavior within its broader social developmental context. Identifying factors such as aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship that may be related to risky sexual behaviors may provide a better understanding of what facilitates healthy transitions to sexual activity. Previous research suggests that parental relationships can serve as...