Evidence linking alcohol and other drug abuse with child maltreatment, particularly neglect, is strong. But does substance abuse cause maltreatment? According to Mark Testa and Brenda Smith, such co-occurring risk factors as parental depression, social isolation, homelessness, or domestic violence may be more directly responsible than substance…

Objective: This study evaluated the efficacy of Entre Dos Mundos/Between Two Worlds (EDM) prevention for Latino adolescents. Method: In an experimental trial to compare implementation formats, 41 Latino families were randomly assigned to EDM action-oriented skills training groups, and 47 families were randomly assigned to unstructured EDM support…

Background: Because the epidemiologic data available for adolescents from the developing world is scarce, the objective is to estimate the prevalence and severity of psychiatric disorders among Mexico City adolescents, the socio-demographic correlates associated with these disorders and service utilization patterns. Methods: This is a multistage…

This study examined the impact of various temporal patterns of maternal interactive behavior with their infant on the infant's quality of attachment. The sample consisted of 52 dyads from the Berlin Longitudinal Study of Early Adaptation. Quality of attachment was assessed at 21 months with the Strange Situation Procedure. Nine infants were…

This paper investigates the patterning and positioning effects in the onset of drinking in East and West German adolescents and young adults. Differences between the timing of first drinking (positioning effects) and differences in influences on the timing of initiation (patterning effects) are studied. Four reasons for studying the age of onset…

This document is intended to be used by therapists who are working with children of alcoholics and are concerned with issues of self-worth and trust. Section 1 asserts that in order to help clients who have an alcoholic parent overcome personal inadequacies, three critical areas may need to be considered: conditions for effecting positive…

To determine how parent behaviors affect children's anxiety and coping responses, and to assess how children's behaviors affect parental functioning in stressful medical settings, 50 children between 4 and 10 years of age, who were seen as outpatients in the Pediatric Clinics at Shands Teaching Hospital at the Unviersity of Florida, were…

Concludes that the development of the reading abilities of preschool children in Japan is mainly a responsibility of the parents. (RB)

The author develops a general equation specifying the conditions under which parents influence the party identification and certain issue attitudes of their adolescent children. Independent variables included in the equation are family interaction, political interest, issue salience to parent, and accuracy of the adolescent's perception of the…

Assesses the relationship between the childrearing attitudes of 93 adult subjects and their perceptions of their parents' attitudes toward them during childhood and adolescence. Implications of the varying patterns for males vs. females and parents vs. nonparents are discussed. (SDH)

Expectancies of reinforcement from alcohol have been investigated from a variety of research perspectives. Although results vary with methodology, subject characteristics, and amount of alcohol consumed, research seems to indicate that the expectation of receiving alcohol influences, and at times outweighs, the actual pharmacological properties of…

Intended for parents, the booklet (part of a 10 booklet series on talented and gifted education) discusses the gifted preschool child. An initial section considers how learning processes are broken down by developmental specialists. The use of questioning strategies with a gifted child is presented as an important parenting skill. A developmental…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE ARE IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES IN SELECTED PARENTAL BACKGROUND FACTORS BETWEEN SCHOLASTICALLY TALENTED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WHO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION IN DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS AND THOSE WHO DO NOT. THERE WERE TWO RELATED PROBLEMS--(1) TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF STABILITY…