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Lazar, Alon; Litvak-Hirsch, Tal; Bar-On, Dan; Beyth-Marom, Ruth – Educational Review, 2009
While Holocaust related activities and educational programs around the world are growing in number, published reports on their impact are scarce, especially on the university level. The free responses of 94 Jewish-Israeli university students who took the course "Psychology of the Holocaust" yielded eight themes. The results reflect a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Death
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Pifalo, Terry – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
Disclosures of child sexual abuse create an immediate crisis within the child's family unit. Reactions of nonoffending caregivers in particular may prevent them from being emotionally available to respond immediately to the needs of the child victim. This article describes an art therapy intervention of visual mapping used in a support group of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Females
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Asarnow, Joan Rosenbaum; Emslie, Graham; Clarke, Greg; Wagner, Karen Dineen; Spirito, Anthony; Vitiello, Benedetto; Iyengar, Satish; Shamseddeen, Wael; Ritz, Louise; Birmaher, Boris; Ryan, Neal; Kennard, Betsy; Mayes, Taryn; DeBar, Lynn; McCracken, James; Strober, Michael; Suddath, Robert; Leonard, Henrietta; Porta, Giovanna; Keller, Martin; Brent, David – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Adolescents who did not improve with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) were provided an alternative SSRI plus cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The superiority of the CBT/combined treatment as compared to medication alone is more evident in youths who had more comorbid disorders, no abuse history, and lower hopelessness.
Descriptors: Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
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Umana-Taylor, Adriana J.; Gonzales-Backen, Melinda A.; Guimond, Amy B. – Child Development, 2009
The current longitudinal study of 323 Latino adolescents (50.5% male; M age = 15.31 years) examined whether ethnic identity exploration, resolution, and affirmation demonstrated significant growth over a 4-year period and whether growth in ethnic identity predicted growth in self-esteem. Findings from multiple-group latent growth curve models…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Late Adolescents, Gender Differences
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Baker, J. K.; Crnic, K. A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Children with developmental delays exhibit more difficulty with certain emotional processes than their typically developing peers, which seems to partially account for the increased risk for the development of social problems in this population. Despite considerable study with typically developing populations, research on parental…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Questionnaires, Parents, Developmental Delays
Fleming, Kimberley K. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to identify the developmental stages and feelings that children are portraying in their artwork. Included in the paper the writer gives examples of the different stages of scribbling and an activity for teachers and parents to do with the child. The results of the activities will give insight into a child's feelings…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Young Children, Developmental Stages, Freehand Drawing
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2008
There are children in preschool who have experienced trauma. Generally, traumatic events evoke feelings of extreme fear and helplessness. Reactions to traumatic events are determined by the subjective experience of the child, which could be impacted by developmental and cultural factors. What is extremely traumatic for one child may be less so for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Coping, Cultural Influences, Children
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Turnbull, William; Carpendale, Jeremy I. M.; Racine, Timothy P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
In relating parent-child conversation to children's social cognitive development, we examined how mother-child dyads talked about the psychological world. Seventy mothers and their 3- to 5-year-old children made up a story about a series of pictures depicting a sequence of events involving a false belief. Mother-child talk was coded for the use of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Development, Parent Child Relationship
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Liu, Karen – Childhood Education, 2008
Beginning in childhood and on into adulthood, people experience many transitions and changes in their lives. Some people cope with change better than others and make transitions easily; some people may experience a longer transition in order to integrate change. Most people have a fear of change due to uncertainty. Once a person releases that…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Organizations (Groups)
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Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wooden, Mark – Social Indicators Research, 2008
The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries--Australia, Britain, Germany, Hungary and The Netherlands--to provide a reassessment of the impact of economic well-being on happiness. The main conclusion is that happiness is considerably more affected by economic circumstances than previously believed. In all five countries wealth…
Descriptors: Income, Life Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Luo, Ye; Parish, William L.; Laumann, Edward O. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objectives: This study provides national estimates of the prevalence of childhood sexual contact and its association with sexual well-being and psychological distress among adults in China. Method: A national stratified probability sample of 1,519 women and 1,475 men aged 20-64 years in urban China completed a computer-administered survey in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Incidence, Child Abuse
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Crouch, Julie L.; Skowronski, John J.; Milner, Joel S.; Harris, Benjamin – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: Managing a crying infant is a challenge universally faced by new parents. This study examined whether parental interpretations, feelings, and behaviors following exposure to a 2-minute videotaped segment of a crying infant varied as a function of child physical abuse (CPA) risk and exposure to cues of hostility (i.e., hostile priming).…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Crying, Infants, Psychological Patterns
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Holahan, Carole K.; Holahan, Charles J.; Velasquez, Katherine E.; North, Rebecca J. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2008
This study employed hierarchical linear modeling to document the time course of happiness across 20 years from average ages of 66 to 86 among 717 members of the Terman Study of the Gifted. In addition, the study examined the role of positive expectancies about aging, assessed at an average age of 61, in enhancing happiness in aging. The results…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Expectation
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Waters, Allison M.; Mogg, Karin; Bradley, Brendan P.; Pine, Daniel S. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2008
Attentional bias for angry and happy faces in 7-12 year old children with general anxiety disorder (GAD) is examined. Results suggest that an attentional bias toward threat faces depends on a certain degree of clinical severity and/or the type of anxiety diagnosis in children.
Descriptors: Attention, Anxiety, Human Body, Psychological Patterns
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Michalos, Alex C. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Answers to the questions "Does education influence happiness and if so, how and how much?" depend on how one defines and operationalizes "education", "influences" and "happiness". A great variety of research scenarios may be constructed from our three essential variables. What public policies one ought to adopt and implement regarding the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Outcomes of Education, Attitudes
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