We report on a pilot study of techniques for organizing terms derived from relevant corpora into semantic clusters. We combine rule-based techniques and an unsupervised statistical method to semantically cluster terms extracted from medical reports. The rule-based approach identifies lexicosyntactic patterns suggestive of parent-child relations and coordination structures suggestive of sibling-...

Objective: The impact of maternal psychosocial stress on young children's mental difficulties is unclear. This study investigated the joint effects of the socioeconomic status and parent-child relationships on emotional and behavioral difficulties in preschool children. Methods: The case-control study included 1416 mothers and their 4-6 year-old children pairs, living in Kaunas city, Lithuania....

BACKGROUND Family process variables have been linked to child problem behavior, but recent research suggests that child ethnicity may moderate relations between family process and child outcomes. The current study examined how ethnicity moderates relations between parent conflict, parent-child relationship quality, and internalizing problems. METHODS A sample of 101 mother-child dyads was dra...