Children 's Self Perception : Behavioral Characteristics

- Developmental - Medical and pain history - Passive coping strategies: behavioral disengagement, self-isolation, catastrophizing - Anxiety sensitivity - Poor self esteem - Family functioning: disorganized, unclear communication, high conflict or negative affect - Pain model in family Precipitating - Medical and pain - Pain perception - Stress - conflict with others Perpetuating - Pain symptom: Intensity Characteristics, Distribution - Comorbid symptoms: Fatigue, Functional status, Quality of

Abstract Children are an active processor of their environment and marital conflict can predict their emotional and behavioral adjustment. It is important to develop intervention programs and strategies that will help children cope and reduce the likelihood of negative outcomes from witnessing interparental conflict. The current study aims to determine if there is a link between marital conflict and children’s peer relationships. The proposed study will be a 12-year longitudinal study. Data will

These children are often percieved as being labeled, and unduely targeted becasue they exhibit aggressive and disruptful problems in the classroom. Left unchecked these patterns can result in a lifetime of difficulties, including school failures , social rejection, low- self esteem, depression, antisocial behavior, delinquency, substance abuse, adult adjustment problems, unemployment, and

When battered woman’s syndrome has been used as a plea of self-defense, especially in cases of homicide, it has highly been scrutinized. According to recent research, characteristics associated with the syndrome form a standard that jurors use to judge battered women. This study would evaluate how characteristics of a defendant would affect a juror’s legal decision-making, in a case of a woman pleading not guilty under terms of self-defense, who were suffering from battered woman’s syndrome. To

separation and strive for closeness to their attachment figure upon reunion. The anxious-avoidant children appear content during the absence of their attachment figure and not predominantly engrossed in seeking juxtaposition and soothing upon reunion. These children are anxious during separation and they learned to suppress their emotions (Berzoff, 2011). Disorganized children are particularly ambivalent upon reunion with their attachment figure, both synchronously approaching and avoiding

(1991) where 81 parents of 42 autistic children and 34 parents of 18 Down syndrome children were assessed using a semi structured investigator based version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia lifetime Version which estimated the lifetime risk of psychiatric disorder. It was reported that the lifetime prevalence rate of anxiety disorder were significantly greater in patents of autistic children than in parents of down syndrome children. And the lifetime prevalence rate of

issues of control. Although parents may differ in how they try to control or socialize their children and the extent to which they do so, it is assumed that the primary role of all parents is to influence, teach, and control their children. Authoritarian parenting combines high control with little warmth. Authoritative parenting combines a fair degree of parental control with being warm and responsive to children. Permissive parenting offers warmth and caring but little parental control. Uninvolved

Child psychiatrists and psychologists have long assumed that playtime can be utilized for children to learn, connect, provide reassurance, calm anxiety, and, perhaps, improve self-esteem. Play is an enjoyable activity that elevates spirits and expands the chance for self-expression, selfrealization, and self-efficacy. It regulates emotion, boosts one’s ego, and attaches individuals to each other in a positive way (Landreth, 2002). Some of the well-known thinkers of all time, including Plato and Aristotle

Depression is classified as a mood disorder by the DSM-IV (1994) and is defined as a mental illness characterized by sadness, general apathy, a loss of self-esteem, feelings of guilt, and, at times, suicidal tendencies (Lexicon, n.d). Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses that individuals receive treatment for today. In any six-month period, 9.4 million Americans, and 340 million people in the world, suffer from this disease. One in four women and one in 10 men will develop depression

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects found in children, with an incidence of approximately nine in every 1000 live births worldwide (van der Linde et al., 2011). Children with complex CHD are living longer due to dramatic advances in medical procedures and surgical techniques (Berger et al., 2017), as well as the increase in number of pediatric heart transplant recipients over the past two decades (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2017), and the decrease