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Pearson, Rebecca M.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Cordero, Miguel; Scerif, Gaia; Mahedy, Liam; Evans, Jonathan; Abioye, Abu; Stein, Alan – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016
Background: Elucidating risk pathways for under-achieving at school can inform strategies to reduce the number of adolescents leaving school without passing grades in core subjects. Maternal depression can compromise the quality of parental care and is associated with multiple negative child outcomes. However, only a few small studies have…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
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Lam-Cassettari, Christa; Wadnerkar-Kamble, Meghana B.; James, Deborah M. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
Evidence on best practice for optimizing communication with prelingual deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children is lacking. This study examined the effect of a family-focused psychosocial video intervention program on parent-child communication in the context of childhood hearing loss. Fourteen hearing parents with a prelingual DHH child…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Self Esteem, Intervention, Feedback (Response)
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Lereya, Suzet Tanya; Wolke, Dieter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Prenatal stress has been shown to predict persistent behavioural abnormalities in offspring. Unknown is whether prenatal stress makes children more vulnerable to peer victimisation. Methods: The current study is based on the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a prospective community-based study. Family adversity, maternal…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Prenatal Influences, Peer Relationship, Victims
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St. Pourcain, Beate; Mandy, William P.; Heron, Jon; Golding, Jean; Smith, George Davey; Skuse, David H. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
Objective: There is overlap between an autistic and hyperactive-inattentive symptomatology when studied cross-sectionally. This study is the first to examine the longitudinal pattern of association between social-communication deficits and hyperactive-inattentive symptoms in the general population, from childhood through adolescence. We explored…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Communication Disorders, Pregnancy
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Leon, D. A.; Lawlor, D. A.; Clark, H.; Batty, G. D.; Macintyre, S. – Intelligence, 2009
There is growing evidence that childhood IQ is inversely associated with mortality in later life. However, the specificity of this association in terms of causes of death, whether it is continuous over the whole range of IQ scores and whether it is the same according to age and sex is not clear. In a large cohort (N = 11,603) of a complete…
Descriptors: Social Class, Intelligence Quotient, Children, Scores
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Hay, Dale F.; Pawlby, Susan; Waters, Cerith S.; Sharp, Deborah – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is considered a major public health problem that conveys risk to mothers and offspring. Yet PPD typically occurs in the context of a lifelong episodic illness, and its putative effects might derive from the child's exposure to other episodes, in pregnancy or later childhood. The aim of the study is to test…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Disturbances, Public Health, Pregnancy