The author, Assistant Director (Policy) of Action for Prisoners' Families, discusses the importance of services and support for prisoners' families. The article highlights the need for more service and provides some examples of good practice.
The author, Assistant Director (Policy) of Action for Prisoners' Families, discusses the importance of services and support for prisoners' families. The article highlights the need for more service and provides some examples of good practice.
Briefly reports on research carried out at the Centre for Research on Family Kinship and Childhood at the University of Leeds. Sixty children and young people aged between eight and 22 years old were interviewed soon after their parents divorced or separated and again three years later. The research highlights that it is up to parents to protect their children when they divorce.
Briefly reports on research carried out at the Centre for Research on Family Kinship and Childhood at the University of Leeds. Sixty children and young people aged between eight and 22 years old were interviewed soon after their parents divorced or separated and again three years later. The research highlights that it is up to parents to protect their children when they divorce.
Aimed at parents wanting their children to benefit from the Internet, while at the same time protecting them from inappropriate web sites. Explains how to: recognised and avoid hidden dangers; supervise Internet access when not there; spot dangerous junk mail and chat rooms; use filters, bookmarks and other technologies to screen content; set up rules for Internet behaviour; and handle any
Aimed at parents wanting their children to benefit from the Internet, while at the same time protecting them from inappropriate web sites. Explains how to: recognised and avoid hidden dangers; supervise Internet access when not there; spot dangerous junk mail and chat rooms; use filters, bookmarks and other technologies to screen content; set up rules for Internet behaviour; and handle any serious problems, particularly if the child is the culprit.
Detailed investigation into the myth that only children grow up to be spoiled, lonely and unhappy social misfits. Uses evidence from research studies and suggests that only children are in reality very much like other children from small families, and are as happy and well adjusted as anyone else.
Detailed investigation into the myth that only children grow up to be spoiled, lonely and unhappy social misfits. Uses evidence from research studies and suggests that only children are in reality very much like other children from small families, and are as happy and well adjusted as anyone else.
Journal of Substance Use, 19(6), 2014, pp.429-435.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
To prevent harmful drinking, it is essential to understand factors that promote alcohol use at an early age. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of parental alcohol use in children’s selection of alcoholic beverages in a virtual reality (VR) environment and their intentions to drink in the future. Participants were 7–13-year-old children (N = 127) who filled out questionnaires...
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To prevent harmful drinking, it is essential to understand factors that promote alcohol use at an early age. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of parental alcohol use in children’s selection of alcoholic beverages in a virtual reality (VR) environment and their intentions to drink in the future. Participants were 7–13-year-old children (N = 127) who filled out questionnaires and participated in a VR computer game paradigm in which they were asked to select food and beverages for their parents and themselves. Children’s selection of alcoholic beverages and their intentions to drink alcohol in the future were measured. Children who reported heavier parental drinking selected more alcoholic beverages for their parents and displayed greater intentions to drink alcohol. Children’s responses in virtual reality explained incremental variance in children’s intentions to drink. Implications and limitations are discussed.
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Psychoanalytic Social Work, 19(1-2), 2012, pp.22-42.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Child therapists and analysts are familiar with treating children who are affected by trauma, neglect, abandonment, loss, and disruptions within their family systems. Parental pathology and environmental stress impacts children and can derail the developmental achievement of affect regulation. When parents are unable to provide consistent empathic care, articulate emotions, label feelings
Child therapists and analysts are familiar with treating children who are affected by trauma, neglect, abandonment, loss, and disruptions within their family systems. Parental pathology and environmental stress impacts children and can derail the developmental achievement of affect regulation. When parents are unable to provide consistent empathic care, articulate emotions, label feelings, and put words to experiences and behaviours, it leaves a child unable to understand their internal and external world. This article describes the link between the function of verbalisation and the development of affect regulation in a latency boy growing up in a family suffering from multiple problems. Using the clinical material from the initial and middle phases of his analysis, the process of expanding his ego capacity for affect regulation is discussed as well as the therapeutic techniques that facilitated the change.
Subject terms:
parental role, attachment, anxiety, communication skills, children;
UNICEF’s Report Card 7 put the UK at the bottom of the child well-being league table, including on three key well-being measures. UNICEF UK commissioned researchers to undertake qualitative research to understand national differences in child well-being. In the absence of much existing data in the field, this study aimed to explore how children themselves experience the interplay between...
UNICEF’s Report Card 7 put the UK at the bottom of the child well-being league table, including on three key well-being measures. UNICEF UK commissioned researchers to undertake qualitative research to understand national differences in child well-being. In the absence of much existing data in the field, this study aimed to explore how children themselves experience the interplay between materialism, inequality and their own subjective well-being. Two hundred and fifty children, aged 8 to 13, were interviewed in Spain, Sweden and the UK. They also discussed findings with three national focus groups of 14 year olds and filmed the everyday lives of 24 families. The message from initial interviews was, 'simple, clear and unanimous', well-being being centred on: time with a happy; stable family; and having good friends and plenty of things to do, especially outdoors. The more that 'children time' was woven into everyday life the happier children were. Other factors included parental roles, family rules, and opportunity for active and creative pursuits, including outdoor activities. Differences between the three nations were particularly striking, with Sweden and Spain experiencing greater levels of child well-being.