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Boomstra, Nienke W.; van Dijk, Marijn W. G.; van Geert, Paul L. C. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article describes a study on mutuality in mother-child interaction during reading and playing sessions. Within mother-child interaction, mutuality is seen as important in language acquisition. The study was executed within a group of Netherlands Antillean mother-child dyads who participated in an intervention programme. Mutuality was…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Intervention
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Meadan, Hedda; Snodgrass, Melinda R.; Meyer, Lori E.; Fisher, Kim W.; Chung, Moon Y.; Halle, James W. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2016
Both naturalistic communication and parent-implemented interventions are evidence-based practices for young children with disabilities, but demonstrations of effective methods for teaching parents to implement naturalistic interventions successfully with their children are still warranted. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Intervention, Parent Participation
Moore, Maia Niguel – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study explored the lives of 11 Black men to better understand how Black men who were raised in single Black mother homes build romantic relationships with Black women. One focus group and a series of individual in-person interviews were conducted with the participants who ranged between 23 and 43 years of age. Participants were…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Family Environment, African Americans
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Galano, Maria M.; Miller, Laura E.; Graham-Bermann, Sandra A. – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious problem for children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). Recent changes to diagnostic criteria for PTSD include a reduction in avoidance symptom criteria from three to one and the separation of emotional numbing from avoidance symptoms, thus creating a need to better understand how…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Family Violence, Clinical Diagnosis
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Sheeber, Lisa B.; Seeley, John R.; Feil, Edward G.; Davis, Betsy; Sorensen, Erik; Kosty, Derek B.; Lewinsohn, Peter M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Develop and pilot an Internet-facilitated cognitive-behavioral treatment intervention for depression, tailored to economically disadvantaged mothers of young children. Method: Mothers (N = 70) of children enrolled in Head Start, who reported elevated levels of depressive symptoms, were randomized to either the 8-session,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Questionnaires, Depression (Psychology)
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Mintz, Tamar M.; Hamre, Bridget K.; Hatfield, Bridget E. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: This study examined the extent to which maternal sensitivity in infancy and toddlerhood is associated with children's social and relational competence and problems in the early years of schooling as well as the extent to which this association is mediated by children's effortful control abilities. Data from 1,364 children (705…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Structural Equation Models, Child Health, Parent Child Relationship
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Foster, Cynthia J. Ewell; Garber, Judy; Durlak, Joseph A. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
Relations among past maternal depressive disorder, current depressive symptoms, current maternal interaction behaviors, and children's adjustment were examined in a sample of 204 women and their young adolescent offspring (mean age = 11.86, SD = 0.55). Mothers either had (n = 157) or had not (n = 57) experienced at least one depressive disorder…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Adolescents, Problem Solving, Behavior Problems