Parenting
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Parenting practices that support the sensation-seeking child
Sensation-seeking is a personality trait of people who go after varied, novel, complex and intense situations and experiences. Sensation-seekers are even willing to take risks in the pursuit of such experiences. Until now, research has primarily focused on how sensation seeking relates to the development of undesirable behaviours, including drug and alcohol abuse, high risk sexual behaviours (like unprotected sex or having multiple partners), gambling and delinquency.
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Parental responses in predicting children’s PTSD
Many children will be exposed to a potentially traumatic situation at some point in their childhood -that is, an event where there is a potential threat to life or of serious injury to the child, or to someone close to them. These events can range from common unintentional or accidental traumas, such as car accidents or serious sporting accidents, to deliberate harm, such as assault or maltreatment. Such trauma exposure can have a significant negative impact on a child’s psychological wellbeing.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 02, February 2019
“Closing in on causal links between environmental exposures and human development using observational data – “confound those confounders!”” by Pasco Fearon
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #45 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #45 of 60: Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomized trials
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #54 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #54 of 60: Brain basis of early parent–infant interactions: psychology, physiology, and in vivo functional neuroimaging studies
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Most Cited JCPP Articles #56 of 60
Most cited JCPP papers #56 of 60: “SOCIAL INTERACTIONS OF AUTISTIC, MENTALLY-RETARDED AND NORMAL-CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS”
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Parent-delivered teaching supports children’s early language development
This article is a summary of the paper ‘An evaluation of a parent-delivered early language enrichment programme: evidence from a randomised controlled trial’ by Burgoyne et al. (2018), published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Getting help with parenting makes a difference – at any age
Parenting interventions for helping children with behavioural problems are just as effective in school age, as in younger children, according to new Oxford University research.
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Child to Parent Violence
Professor Stephen Scott responds to the ITV news’ story about child to parent violence. It was based on a report published on 11 July called Let’s Talk About: Child to Parent Violence and Aggression by the authors Dr Wendy Thorley and Al Coates MBE.
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The Olympics’ loss is psychology’s gain
Discover what was Professor Gordon Harold’s somewhat unlikely start in psychology.
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