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The purpose of this study was to explore factors which are predictive of parenting stress for first-time parents. Based on attachment theory and empirical research, the factors investigated were the responsibility for child care and housework, the current and retrospective relationship with the family of origin, the change in emotions related to parenthood, the marital relationship, and attachment and individuation.

This study investigated the interactions of facially deformed infants (FD) with their mothers compared to a facially nondeformed control group (FND). All mother-infant dyads were videotaped for 10 minutes during a free play period. Mothers were instructed to spend time with their baby as they normally would. The videotaped interactions of 14 FD dyads and 14 FND dyads were rated by five raters for quality of interactions, amount of vocalization, touch, and face-to-face gaze. The infants were rated on their level of attractiveness from polaroid pictures and videotapes. Mothers also completed a questionnaire which assessed their infants' temperament. Three of the studies' four hypotheses were confirmed. First, the more attractive an infant was, the better his/her interactions with the mother were judged to be. Second, FD infant dyads were rated as significantly poorer in quality of interaction than FND dyads, although FD* dyads did not spend significantly less time vocalizing, touching, or in face-to-face gaze as predicted. A significantly higher percentage of FD infants were judged as having difficult temperament relative to FND infants. Finally, as predicted it was found that infants with difficult temperaments were more likely to exhibit poorer quality interactions than infants with less difficult temperaments. These results have important implications for providing anticipatory guidance to caregivers of FD infants. Without intervention, FD infants appear at risk for subsequent developmental problems stemming from disrupted early mother-infant interactions. Future research should focus on these interactions soon after the infant's birth, attempt to determine if FD infants' emotions can be reliably understood from their facial expressions (as has been found in normal infants) and extend the current research paradigm to include fathers of FD infants.

The improving prognosis for pediatric leukemia patients requires that involved professionals increase attention to the emotional adjustment of these children. This study was designed to determine (a) how mothers of leukemia patients perceived their children's personalities in order to identify any specific emotional difficulties which these children may experience and (b) if their perceptions differed from either mothers of cystic fibrosis and diabetes patients or mothers of healthy children. Subjects included 24 mothers in each of three groups: leukemia, other illness, and healthy. Children in both illness groups received higher scores than healthy children on Adjustment, Achievement, Somatic Concern, Depression, Psychosis, and Social Skills scales as measured by the Personality Inventory for Children; however, only the leukemic children were rated higher in areas of Anxiety and Withdrawal. Implications for treatment and future research are discussed.

It is hypothesized in this study that children reared with "concerned" mothers (N) will display significantly superior intellectual performance and less neurological impairment as compared with children reared with neglectful mothers (MN) and children diagnosed as failure to thrive (FTT, falling below the third percentile in height and weight). The FTT children will show significantly more deficits than both N and MN groups. The participants in this study were forty-five children rigidly matched on all possible variables. F-tests and Newman-Keuls' analyses reveal severe intellectual deficits in both MN and FTT groups. The FTT group displayed significantly more neurological deficits lending support for a nutritional basis of this syndrome as opposed to the traditional psychogenic explanation.

The prevalence of aggression and delinquency increase during adolescence and are associated with psychosocial adjustment difficulties. It is important to identify aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship that may protect adolescents from these externalizing behaviors. The current study examined longitudinal relations between parental monitoring behaviors, child disclosure, and externalizing behaviors. Participants included 326 African American adolescents and their primary maternal caregivers, recruited from urban neighborhoods characterized by high rates of violence and low socioeconomic status. Participants provided data annually (three waves across two-year timeframe) through face-to-face interviews. Results of longitudinal path models showed that child disclosure predicted parental knowledge, and parental knowledge was associated with fewer externalizing outcomes. Higher levels of parental control predicted less child disclosure. Finally, parental acceptance predicted fewer child-reported delinquent behaviors through increased levels of child disclosure. Implications suggest that parent-adolescent communication and parental acceptance are protective factors, associated with decreased externalizing outcomes in African American youth.

Minimal attention has been directed toward learning how children may influence parenting practices and styles within a divorce setting, and - more significantly - how children may influence the co-parenting practices and behaviors of divorced parents. The roles of child temperament, parenting, and their reciprocal interaction werereviewed as they relate to the development of externalizing and internalizing problems in childhood. Literature regarding the impact of divorce on the parent-child relationship was also discussed. A cluster analytic approach was utilized in order to identify three groups of individuals with internalizing, externalizing, and adaptive characteristics. Parenting features were then evaluated across both intact and divorced family settings to explore for any influence of the child and the environmental demands on parenting. Only one significant interaction was revealed between marital status and child characteristics in relation to maternal discipline. Significant findings were discussed within light of prior literature.

Teachers appear to feel challenged by children’s off-task behavior in the classroom. Children’s off-task behavior can result in reduced academic engagement, increased teaching stress, and strained teacher-child relationships. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of kinder training on young children’s on-task behavior in the classroom. This study utilized an experimental single-case methodology and a multiple baseline across subjects design. Three elementary school teachers conducted weekly individual play sessions with students they identified as frequently exhibiting off-task behavior. The three children ranged in age from five to six years: two males and one female, two Caucasian non-Hispanic and one biracial. Two trained observers repeatedly assessed the child participants’ on-task behavior using the Direct Observation Form throughout the baseline and intervention phases. The findings provide support for kinder training as an effective play-based professional development-training model that can improve children’s on-task behavior. Results demonstrated that all child participants showed improvement in on-task classroom behavior. Visual analysis revealed that all child participants demonstrated a positive change in on-task behavior during the intervention phase. All teacher participants reported observing improvement in the child participants’ on-task behavior and teacher-child relationships. Teachers’ post-intervention reports supported the notion of reciprocal interactions among teacher-child relationships, understanding of children’s lifestyle and goals of misbehavior, and children’s on-task behavior.

A relação professor-aluno é fator essencial no processo de desenvolvimento físico, social e emocional dos alunos, principalmente em se tratando de alunos da primeira infância, sendo este o momento de maior aprendizado em nossas vidas. Desta forma, estruturar uma boa relação com a criança permite ao professor consolidar um ambiente propício e estimulante ao ensino, além de facilitar ajustes comportamentais. Assim, este trabalho busca captar efeitos determinantes para uma boa relação professor-aluno, mais especificamente via nível de amabilidade do professor. Esta análise foi possível utilizando dados da cidade de Petrolina, coletadas pelo Instituto Alfa e Beto, contendo informações a respeito da escala de relação professor-aluno (ERPA) e o nível de amabilidade do professor via instrumento SENNA. O município de Petrolina utilizou-se do processo de convênio para expandir o número de vagas em educação infantil através do projeto denominado \"Nova Semente\". Entretanto, constatamos características divergentes entre a rede pública e conveniada sobre a composição da equipe de docentes, de forma que estas indiquem um cenário de baixa qualidade no ensino oferecido pela rede conveniada. Por fim, encontramos vestígios de que maiores níveis de amabilidade do professor de creche compensa em partes uma baixa qualificação. / The teacher-child relationship is an essential factor in the process of physical, social and emotional achievement of the students, especially in early childhood, the moment of highest development in the life. This way, structuring a good relationship with the child, allows the teacher not only consolidating a favorable and stimulant learning environment, but also provide behavioral adjustment. Therefore, this study aims at show determinants of a good teacher-child relationship, more specifically by teacher agreeableness. The analysis became possible by the use of a database from Petrolina (PE, Brazil) collected by Alfa e Beto Institute, which contains information related to a scale of teacher-child relationship (ERPA) and the score of teacher agreeableness measured by SENNA instrument. The city of Petrolina used the agreement process to increase the number of vacancies in early childhood education day care centers through a project named \"Nova Semente\" (New Seed). Distinct characteristics were registered between the public and chartered projects regarding the composition of teaching staff, indicating a low quality income in teaching process offered by chartered sector. It is fair to infer that teacher agreeableness in day care center compensates for low training level of teaching staff.

A deficiência é compreendida como uma articulação entre os aspectos orgânicos, ambientais e pessoais. O resultado final do cruzamento destes fatores engendra o quadro final observado. No entanto, pouco se produziu sobre esta incidência dos fatores pessoais. A literatura propõe que crianças com deficiência física apresentam prejuízos na imagem corporal, associando alterações orgânicas com dificuldades do eu. Entretanto, estabelecem associações diretas e não indicam de que modo este eu prejudicado poderia compor o quadro da deficiência. Desta forma, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo explorar a imagem corporal no processo de constituição subjetiva de crianças com deficiência física congênita. Neste recorte, buscou-se investigar como o corpo incide sobre o sujeito e quais os efeitos da incidência do sujeito sobre o corpo. Para tal, é realizada uma revisão da literatura e a coleta de casos cínicos utilizando a Avaliação Psicanalítica aos 3 Anos (AP3) e o Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH) em duas crianças com deficiência física e seus pais, seguindo o método clínico-qualitativo. Foi observado que nestes casos existem riscos de prejuízos da imagem corporal por conta de especificidades do quadro orgânico, como o excesso de intervenções e manipulações; manifestações do corpo, como movimentos involuntários, que rompem o simbólico e o imaginário e o uso de próteses/órteses. Estes dados orgânicos foram atrelados às significações e identificações que se oferecem ao eu, somadas as já presentes na rede significante na qual a \"deficiência\" está inserida. Desta forma, verificou-se que tais identificações podem levar a danos secundários à deficiência, compondo seu quadro final. Os prejuízos na imagem corporal foram atrelados às demais manifestações do inconsciente, indicando no processo de constituição subjetiva e no exercício das funções parentais as bases da imagem corporal e das organizações pessoais que irão tomar o corpo e a deficiência. Frente aos dados, foram feitas considerações às áreas afins que podem se beneficiar do trabalho em equipe com o psicanalista e psicólogo. Concluindo, a pesquisa aponta para a noção de risco, seja de prejuízos da imagem corporal quanto de constituição do sujeito, levantando questões como o desenvolvimento de uma clínica preventiva e o estudo das reações frente à deficiência, o que se estende as diferentes deficiências dada a marca significante que carregam / Disability is understood as a combination of organic, environmental and personal aspects. The final result of the blend of these factors produces the condition observed. However, little has been written about the effects of these personal aspects. Literature suggests that children with physical disabilities suffer damage to their body image, and associates organic alterations with difficulties of the ego. However, although it makes direct associations, it fails to indicate how this impaired ego might be part of the overall picture of the disability. Thus, the aim of this research is to explore body image in the process of the subjective constitution of children with congenital physical disabilities. How the body affects the subject and the effects of the subject on the body were investigated. To this end, a review of the literature was made and data on clinical cases was collected, using the clinical-qualitative method, by performing the Psychoanalytic Assessment of 3-year-olds (PA3) and the Human Figure Drawing (HFD) on two children with physical disabilities and their parents. It was observed that in these cases, there is risk of damage to body image due to specificities of the organic condition such as excessive interventions and manipulation; body manifestations such as involuntary movements, which break the symbolic and the imaginary; and the use of prosthesis/orthosis. These organic data were linked to the meanings and identifications offered to the ego, in addition to those already present in the signifier\'s network in which the \"disability\" is contained. Thus, it was verified that these identifications can lead to damages secondary to the disability, composing its overall picture. Damages to body image were linked to other manifestations of the unconscious, indicating the bases of the body image and personal organization that the body and the disability will take on in the process of subjective constitution and the exercise of parental functions. Based on the data, considerations were made regarding related areas that might benefit from working jointly with psychoanalysts and psychologists. To conclude, the research points to the notion of risk, whether of damage to body image or to the constitution of the subject, raising questions such as the need for a preventative practice and the study of reaction to disability, which extends to different disabilities according to their particular signifier