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Small, Latoya A.; Jackson, Jerrold; Gopalan, Geetha; McKay, Mary McKernan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Background: Youth living in poverty face compounding familial and environmental was challenges in utilizing effective community mental health services. Ongoing stressors increase their drop-out rate in mental health service use. Difficulties also exist in staying engaged in services when involved with the child welfare system. This study examines…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Urban Youth, Family Needs, Family Relationship
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Lin, Xiuyun; Fang, Xiaoyi; Chi, Peilian; Li, Xiaoming; Chen, Wenrui; Heath, Melissa Allen – School Psychology International, 2014
A group of 124 children orphaned by AIDS (COA), who resided in two orphanages funded by the Chinese government, participated in a study investigating the efficacy of a grief-processing-based psychological group intervention. This psychological intervention program was designed to specifically help COA process their grief and reduce their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grief, Coping, Residential Institutions
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Fairweather-Schmidt, A. Kate; Lee, Christina; Wade, Tracey D. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This longitudinal study of midage women has two main aims: to examine the effect of disordered eating (DE) on quality of life (QoL) among women, including a comparison with a younger cohort and to investigate the mediating roles of both depressive symptoms and social support on the longitudinal relationship between DE and QoL as potential…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Females, Eating Disorders, Quality of Life
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McWhirter, Paula T. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Two community-based group therapies, emotion focused versus goal oriented, are compared among women exposed to intimate partner violence (n = 46) and their children (n = 48) aged between 6 and 12 years. A series of repeated measures analyses are employed to evaluate the effects of time from baseline to postintervention following random assignment.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Females, Drinking
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Tandon, S. Darius; Perry, Deborah F.; Mendelson, Tamar; Kemp, Karen; Leis, Julie A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: To assess the efficacy of a 6-week cognitive-behavioral intervention in preventing the onset of perinatal depression and reducing depressive symptoms among low-income women in home visitation programs. Method: Sixty-one women who were pregnant or who had a child less than 6 months of age and who were assessed as at risk for perinatal…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Home Visits, Depression (Psychology)
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LaForett, Dore R.; Mendez, Julia L. – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: This study simultaneously examined parental depression and parent involvement as predictors of satisfaction with an early childhood intervention program. Parents (N = 203) of Head Start children participated in this short-term longitudinal study. Measures of parent involvement and satisfaction assessed multiple dimensions of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Participation
Vasilas, Cynthia Nikki – ProQuest LLC, 2009
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from families, communities, and jobs may have far reaching implications. Family Readiness Groups and a climate of support shown by…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Military Personnel, Comparative Analysis
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Estevez, Estefania; Murgui, Sergio; Musitu, Gonzalo – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2009
The present study examined psychosocial adjustment in the following four groups of students: victims, bullies, bully/victims and a control group of adolescents not involved in bullying or victimization problems. Psychosocial adjustment was measured considering as indicators: level of self-esteem, depressive symptomatology, perceived stress,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Violence, Life Satisfaction, Adolescents
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Young, Jami F.; Gallop, Robert; Mufson, Laura – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This article reports on mother-child conflict as an outcome and moderator of Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST), a preventive intervention for depression. Forty-one adolescents (average age = 13.37, SD = 1.19) with elevated depression symptoms were randomized to receive IPT-AST or school counseling (SC). Adolescents…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Parent Influence, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Hoogenhout, Esther M.; de Groot, Renate H. M.; Jolles, Jelle – Educational Gerontology, 2011
This paper presents a comprehensive group intervention for older adults with cognitive complaints. It offers psychoeducation about cognitive aging and contextual factors, focuses on skills and compensatory behavior, and incorporates group discussion. The intervention reduced negative emotional reactions towards cognitive functioning in a…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Intervention, Older Adults, Neurological Impairments