Background This study tested whether information obtained in providing support to families with a parent with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) may be indicators for parentchild interaction and parenting behaviours that are in need for assessment and intervention. Method Data were taken from pre-test assessment for an intervention study with parents with MID (N = 85; 98% female) and their ch...

A striking feature of today’s economics discipline is the amount of methodological consensus. This is very exceptional for a social science. Take any introductory textbook to sociology, history, international relations theory,... and different approaches to the discipline will be developed alongside each other. It earns them names such as ‘pre-paradigmatic science’, the idea being that scholars...

the present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. to this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused english and persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedenglish and persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

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When advising families about discipline strategies, pediatricians should use a comprehensive approach that includes consideration of the parent–child relationship, reinforcement of desired behaviors, and consequences for negative behaviors. Corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents be ...