Objective Adolescents' cancer-related distress is more complex, severe, and long-lasting than that of children adults. Parents adopt an active role in supporting their adolescent, reporting adolescent the most problematic symptom parents experience. Research has predominantly focused on exploring adolescents' experiences distress, with little attention to how experience adolescent's distress. T...

The closure of schools worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic required parents undertake key pedagogical roles support their children’s education and movement a remote, often virtual world online teaching presented many challenges for families. For children attending special schools, loss educational, as well therapeutic provision, added further layer complexity unique this group. This ...

of the expected perfect baby. Research suggests that nursing interventions such as teaching parents about health concerns, caregiving activities and behavioral characteristics of preterm infants, are important in helping parents both in the hospital and after discharge. Research has also documented that home visits by health professionals as well as appointments at child health clinics promote ...

This grounded theory study explored parents' experiences of responding to their children's need for understanding parental mental health concerns. Fifteen parents with severe and enduring mental health difficulties participated in the study. The findings suggest four main social processes that influence parents' talk with their children about parental mental health issues, namely "Protecting an...

BACKGROUND This study examined whether the experiences of childhood or adolescent parental divorce/separation and parental alcohol problems affected the likelihood of offspring DSM-IV lifetime alcohol dependence, controlling for parental history of drug, depression, and antisocial behavior problems. METHOD Data were drawn from the 2001-2002 National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Relat...

Background: The development of emergent literacy skills depends upon the literacy environments and experiences of children at home. Children’s home literacy environment is closely related to the development of various aspects of emergent literacy like letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and vocabulary. Dimensions of home literacy environment, such as physical (literacy) environment, child...

The relationship between dissociation and some of its potential correlates and antecedents was explored. Young medical students (N = 276) completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and Munich Personality Test (MPT). The findings indicate that both personality characteristics (such as alexithymia and neurotici...