Research on the primary transitional object has ignored the subtle interactions that occur between parents and children in the development and use of the primary transitional object. While conscious expectations of whether the child will develop a primary transitional object do not seem to be an important factor, unconscious motivations seem to determine if parents serve as either facilitators ...

OBJECTIVES Children from Indian and Pakistani (South Asian) and black minority groups have relatively high rates of attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments and admissions to hospital in the UK. We examine parents' beliefs and management of childhood asthma that possibly contribute to their greater use of hospital services. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Three London hos...

PURPOSES The purposes of this study were to evaluate: (1) parents' ability to predict dental treatment cooperation by their autistic child; (2) behavior guidance techniques (BGTs) used during treatment; and (3) parental attitudes regarding basic and advanced BGTs. METHODS Data were collected from 85 parent/autistic child pairs and their dentists using surveys and treatment records. RESULTS ...

BACKGROUND Questions about the circumstances of injuries, especially to infants and young children, might be perceived by parents as threatening or intrusive. Some institutional research review committees express concerns that interviews about childhood injuries may be offensive to parents. The perceived value and potential risk of questions about a young child's injury could affect the quality...

All psychological theories, irrespective of their orientation (dynamic, cognitive, behavioural) agree that childhood environment influences later psychic development. Bowlby’s theory 1 2 states that the lack of a “secure base”, due to dysfunctional parent-child bonding, may predispose the child to develop mental disorders in adult life, and particularly Parental attitudes of mothers of patients...

BACKGROUND The present study is an evaluation of a 3-year parental program aiming to prevent underage drinking. The intervention was implemented by a non-governmental organization and targeted parents with children aged 13-16 years old and included recurrent activities during the entire period of secondary school. The program consisted of four different types of group and self-administered acti...

Due to high cervical cancer rates and limited research on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability in India, the research team examined parental attitudes toward HPV vaccines. Thirty-six interviews with parents were conducted to assess sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related knowledge and HPV-specific vaccine awareness and acceptability. Despite limited knowledge, parents had posit...

This study investigated views held about mathematics education by parents of a small inner-city primary school. Similarities in responses indicated consistency of ideas. Respondents demonstrated a broad understanding of mathematics and disagreed with a number of stereotypical statements about mathematics and mathematics education. They were keen to increase their knowledge and understanding of ...

Family policy is aimed at neutralising, or at least lessening, the negative impact of psychological, social and economic constraints for forming families and having the desired/greater number of children. Financial and other family policy measures reconcile the objectives of strengthening families, offering equal opportunities to men and women, and increasing the well-being of individuals and f...