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Felicity L. Painter; Anna T. Booth; Primrose Letcher; Craig A. Olsson; Jennifer E. McIntosh – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and associated public health restrictions created unprecedented challenges for parents and their young dependent children. While psycho-social impacts of natural disasters on families are well studied, a typography of parent specific concerns in the COVID-19 context was yet to be articulated.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents, Young Children
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Greenhalgh, Kate; Mahler, Nicole; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Shanley, Dianne C. – Deafness & Education International, 2023
Parents of children with hearing loss (HL) often navigate an unfamiliar and uncertain path. This qualitative study investigated the nature of parental uncertainty: (1) immediately after a child's HL was identified; (2) prior to primary school entry; and (3) during primary school. Open-ended questions in online surveys were completed by…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Children, Parents
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Saltmarsh, Sue; Lee, I-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Play is a central discourse in policy and practice pertaining to young children's learning, development and well-being in many countries around the world. Dominant ways of understanding and advocating for play often construct universalising notions of children and childhood, overlooking that play is always-already culturally situated and…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Development, Psychological Patterns
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Kingsford, Jess M.; Hawes, David J.; de Rosnay, Marc – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
The question of when moral identity first develops in childhood deserves more considered investigation. In this article, we examine the claim that moral identity first emerges in middle-childhood (8-12 years). An approach is taken here whereby a tendency to attribute moral shame under conditions entailing moral identity failure is considered as…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Self Concept, Age Groups, Moral Development
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Macvean, Michelle; Shlonsky, Aron; Mildon, Robyn; Devine, Ben – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objectives: To scope evaluations of Indigenous parenting programs designed to improve child psychosocial outcomes. Methods: Electronic databases, gray literature, Indigenous websites and journals, and reference lists were searched. The search was restricted to high-income countries with a history of colonialism. Results: Sixteen studies describing…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health, Child Rearing
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Blaise, Mindy – Gender and Education, 2013
Since the moral panic discourse is shutting down discussions about how children are making meaning of gender and sexuality, this paper argues that a new logic is needed for understanding childhood sexuality. A postdevelopmental logic is created by working with Deleuze and Guattari's ["Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizoprhenia."…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sexuality, Young Children, Human Body
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O'Connor, Meredith; Sanson, Ann; Hawkins, Mary T.; Toumbourou, John W.; Letcher, Primrose; Frydenberg, Erica – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
The transition to adulthood is characterised by both great potential for positive change and a relatively high incidence of problem outcomes. A multidimensional model of positive development during the transition to adulthood (at 19-20 years) has recently been proposed. However, an unresolved question regarding the nature of positive development…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Psychopathology, Young Adults, Child Development
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2012
The Children's Headline Indicators are a set of measures designed to focus policy attention and to help guide and evaluate policy development on key issues for children's health, development and wellbeing in 19 priority areas. They were endorsed by health, community and disability services ministers and education systems officials in 2006.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Workshops, Social Networks, Children
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O'Rourke, John; Cooper, Martin – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2010
Providing a curriculum that promotes personal growth and wellbeing is an overarching learning outcome of the Western Australian Curriculum Framework (Curriculum Framework, 1998). However, little is known about what constitutes and causes wellbeing of students in our primary schools. In the study reported in this paper the happiness of 312…
Descriptors: Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries, Psychological Evaluation
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Shakespeare-Finch, Jane; de Dassel, Therese – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
There is sparse systematic examination of the potential for growth as well as distress that may occur for some adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The presented study explored posttraumatic growth and its relationship with negative posttrauma outcomes within the specific population of survivors of childhood sexual abuse (N = 40). Results…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Abuse, Child Development
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Gribble, Karleen D. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The breastfeeding experiences of 114 Australian children who were currently breastfeeding were explored via maternal observation and direct questioning of the children. Mothers commonly stated that their child breastfed for comfort and this opinion was validated by observations of when the children breastfed, which was often in the transition to…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Toddlers, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Rauh, Hellgard; Rudinger, Georg – 1987
Down Syndrome children (N=229), aged 1-83 months, from Australia, Canada, and Germany were tested using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. Test performances on the Bayley's Mental and Motor scales were not dissimilar, leading to the conclusion that young Down Syndrome children from different countries with relatively comparable standards of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Developed Nations
Homel, R.; Burns, A. – 1981
This paper looks at the relationship between parents' social networks and aspects of child development. It has often been suggested that parents' links with kin, neighbors, friends, and local and non-local organizations are likely to have many effects on their children's development. These effects, however, have never been systematically…
Descriptors: Child Development, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Friendship
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Dettman, Shani J.; Fiket, Hayley; Dowell, Richard C.; Charlton, Margaret; Williams, Sarah S.; Tomov, Alexandra M.; Barker, Elizabeth J. – Volta Review, 2004
Speech perception outcomes in young children with cochlear implants are affected by a number of variables including the age of implantation, duration of implantation, mode of communication, and the presence of a developmental delay or additional disability. The aim of this study is to examine the association between degree of developmental delay…
Descriptors: Perception Tests, Young Children, Auditory Perception, Classification