The coping strategies of four groups of maltreated children were compared with those of adequately reared children. The children were videotaped in a brief play session with their mothers, then in the Strange Situation, and finally during free play while the parent(s) were being interviewed. The coded videotapes of mother-child interaction yielded four scores for the children: cooperation, comp...

STEEP(TM) was one of the first attachment-based early intervention programs. The program applied findings from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study on Risk and Adaptation to the development of a supportive program for young high-risk mothers and their infants. STEEP's effectiveness was evaluated first in a randomized controlled study launched in 1987. The study showed effects of the one-year interv...

Maria Silverwood' was excited when, on her twenty-fifth birthday, she was hired as a sales manager trainee for a Seattle company that manufactured computer graphic equipment. As a single mother, Maria needed a stable, secure job with potential for promotion. When Maria went for her mandatory new employee physical examination, she filled out a routine medical history form, on which she noted tha...

On April 2, 2012 the Eindhoven University of Technology published the first adaptive PhD thesis [4] describing the research on the adaptation language and engine GALE, and served (adaptively) by the GALE engine. The aim of the this research was twofold: to make the authoring of adaptive documents feasible without much technical knowledge, and to create an adaptation and user modeling service th...

AIM To describe the development and testing of a monitoring model with quantitative indicators or progress markers that could measure the progress of individual hospitals in the implementation of kangaroo mother care (KMC). METHODS Three qualitative data sets in the larger research programme on the implementation of KMC of the MRC Research Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies i...

Abstract Were one to trust the experts of “the risk society,” and countless volumes that take as their object, might conclude we have lost sight danger. How secure is distinction? This essay registers discursive proliferation has surrounded risk, opposed poverty theorizations Since Mary Douglas's famous 1966 contribution, it if two terms were synonymous. Yet linguistic usage, along with other c...

The development of fear, anger, and joy was examined in 112 children using a longitudinal design. Children were observed at 9, 14, 22, and 33 months in standard laboratory episodes designed to elicit fear, anger, or joy. At 14 months, mother-child attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation. The attachment groups (avoidant, secure, resistant, and disorganized/unclassifiable) differed in th...

The aim of the demo is threefold. First, it introduces the current version of the annotation tool for discourse relations in the Prague Dependency Treebank 3.0. Second, it presents the discourse relations in the treebank themselves, including new additions in comparison with the previous release. And third, it shows how to search in the treebank, with focus on the discourse relations.

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this research identified (1) individual differences in children's strategies for preserving their emotional security in the interparental relationship, and (2) the psychosocial and family correlates of these individual differences. Study 1 assessed reactivity to parental conflict simulations among 56 school-age children, whereas Study 2 solicited chi...