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Understanding Attention and Intermodal Processing Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2019-03-05)
Problems with social orienting, attention, and intermodal processing (IMP) involving social events are considered to be important deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study aimed to better ...
The Relationship Between Identity Development, Parenting Quality, and Child Functioning: Testing An Expansion of the Process Model of Parenting With a Comparative Sample of Adult and Adolescent Mothers
(2016-09-20)
Identity achievement has been described as a critical developmental task of adolescence, but has seldom been discussed in the context of adolescent parenthood. Little is known about how teen mothers negotiate identity ...
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcome From Three Different Perspectives in Child Trauma Therapy
(2016-09-20)
The current study looked at the therapeutic alliance in child trauma therapy in a multi-site, controlled study with follow up. Parent, child, and therapist ratings were used to examine how therapeutic alliance changes over ...
Perceptions of Mock and Intentional Dating Aggression in Adolescent Males and Females
(2019-03-05)
Self-reports of adolescent physical dating aggression indicate that females perpetrate at equal to or higher rates than males. Before assuming females are more aggressive in their dating relationships, it is necessary to ...
Differential Effects of Individual Factors on the Developmental Pathways of Depression
(2016-09-20)
This study used growth mixture modeling to investigate the developmental pathways of depressive symptoms across adolescence and emerging adulthood (ages 12-25 years) using a nationally representative sample (N = 20,394). ...
Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later
(2019-03-05)
The term adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) refers to adults who have grown up in a home with at least one alcoholic parent. ACOAs have often been studied as a homogenous group without examining type of family dysfunction. ...
Parenting Styles in Immigrant, Multigenerational Chinese Canadian Families
(2019-03-05)
Chinese Canadian (CC) families are increasingly living in multi-generational households, often with grandparents who assist in child caregiving. CC families experience multiple changes both prior to and after resettlement ...
Deaf and Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Impact on Child and Family
(2016-09-20)
The goal of this study was to identify similarities and differences between individuals who are Deaf, who are hearing with ASD and those who are both Deaf and have ASD on measures of communication, behaviour, and social ...
Disengagement, Shifting and Engagement of Attention in Children And Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
(2016-09-20)
The present study examined the disengaging, shifting, and engaging abilities of children and adolescents with ASD compared to age- and cognitive ability-matched typically developing (TD) peers. Previous research has found ...
A Feasibility Study of Working Memory Training for Individuals With Pediatric-Onset Multiple Sclerosis
(2016-09-20)
Cognitive impairment occurs in up to half of children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis (MS), and may be severe enough to compromise intellectual functioning, academic performance, and daily life function. Working ...