It's Not You, It's Me: An Examination of Clinician‐ and Client‐Level Influences on Countertransference Toward Borderline Personality Disorder
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) appear more likely than individuals with other mental disorders to evoke negative countertransference reactions. The current study examined countertransference toward BPD across client‐ (e.g., client age and gender) and clinician‐level (e.g., age, discipline, clinical experience, training) factors. Participants (N = 560) completed an anonymous online survey in which they read case information describing a client with BPD and answered questions to assess their reactions toward the client. The study used a 2 × 2 between‐subjects design in which client age and ...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rachel E. Liebman, Mandi Burnette Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

A Prospective Study of Differential Sources of School‐Related Social Support and Adolescent Global Life Satisfaction
This study examined the cross‐sectional and prospective relationships between three sources of school‐related social support (parent involvement, peer support for learning, and teacher‐student relationships) and early adolescents’ global life satisfaction. The participants were 597 middle school students from 1 large school in the southeastern United States who completed measures of school social climate and life satisfaction on 2 occasions, 5 months apart. The results revealed that school‐related experiences in terms of social support for learning contributed substantial amounts of variance to individual differ...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James Siddall, E. Scott Huebner, Xu Jiang Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

An Ecological Approach to Children's Rights and Participation: Interrelationships and Correlates of Rights in Different Ecological Systems
This study, carried out among 1,753 Israeli adolescents (ages 15–17), uses a socioecological perspective instead to understand children's rights and participation. It examines adolescents' approaches to their rights and participation at 4 ecological levels—family, school, community, and the larger sociopolitical system—as well as a number of possible child, family, and societal correlates. It also looks at the interactions between some of these correlates. The findings show that different correlates have different links with various ecological circles. For example, girls reported higher levels of participation in the...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Asher Ben‐Arieh, Shalhevet Attar‐Schwartz Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The Added Value of the School of the 21st Century When Combined With a Statewide Preschool Program
Although schools have begun to employ multiple programs to reach educational goals, little attention has been paid to the efficacy of combining separate programs. The present study investigates the combination of a school reform model, the School of the 21st Century (21C), and the Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program, where preschools apply for state funds to provide high quality services to children at risk. To determine if 21C adds anything to the ABC program, the present study compared results from a developmental assessment. The authors compared school‐based preschools that had both ABC and 21C services to those prog...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Misty Ginicola, Matia Finn‐Stevenson, Edward Zigler Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Identifying and Addressing Mental Health Risks and Problems in Primary Care Pediatric Settings: A Model to Promote Developmental and Cultural Competence
Young children, particularly uninsured children of color, suffer from mental health disturbances at rates similar to older children and adults, yet they have higher rates of unmet needs. To address unmet needs, efforts to identify mental health problems in primary care pediatric settings have grown in recent years, thanks in large part to expanded screening efforts. Yet, health disparities in early detection remain. Enhancing understanding of how early childhood mental health problems can be identified and addressed within pediatric settings is an important and growing area of research. The authors draw on theoretical mode...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Leandra Godoy, Alice S. Carter Tags: Orignal Article Source Type: research

Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure, Home Environment, and Primary Caregiver Risk Factors Predict Child Behavioral Problems at 5 Years
This study investigated the prospective association between prenatal methamphetamine (MA) exposure and child behavioral problems at 5 years while also examining the home environment at 30 months and several primary caregiver (PC) risk factors. Participants were 97 MA‐exposed and 117 comparison children and their PCs enrolled in the Infant Development, Environment and Lifestyle Study. Hypotheses were that child behaviors would be adversely impacted by (a) prenatal MA exposure, (b) home environments that provided less developmental stimulation and emotional responsiveness to the child, and (c) the presence of PC psycholo...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jean Twomey, Linda LaGasse, Chris Derauf, Elana Newman, Rizwan Shah, Lynne Smith, Amelia Arria, Marilyn Huestis, Sheri DellaGrotta, Mary Roberts, Lynne Dansereau, Charles Neal, Barry Lester Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Self‐Reported Methods of Cessation of Adult Male Child Abusers: A Pilot Study
This pilot study explored the pre‐arrest self‐selected cessation attempts of sexual offenders (N = 109) who abused children and often others. Four participants were dropped because of invalid responding (N = 104). While 74.3% of sample participants reported attempts to decrease or stop their sexual offending prior to arrest, 56% out of 100 who responded to the cessation question reported that they were able to do so. Self‐efficacy was examined as a potential predictive variable of cessation attempts and success of attempts; however, no relationship was found between self‐efficacy and attempts. Practice and rese...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Amy Booxbaum, David L. Burton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Testing a Multiple Mediator Model of the Effect of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adolescent Sexual Victimization
The present study modeled the direct relationship between child sexual abuse (CSA) and adolescent peer‐to‐peer sexual victimization (APSV) and the mediated effect via variables representing the number of sexual partners, sexual risk behavior, and signaling sexual boundaries. A cross‐sectional study on the effect of CSA on APSV was conducted, utilizing a multiple mediator model. Mediated and direct effects in the model were estimated employing Mplus using bootstrapped percentile based confidence intervals to test for significance of mediated effects. The study employed 327 Danish female adolescents with a mean age of ...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rikke H. Bramsen, Mathias Lasgaard, Mary P. Koss, Mark Shevlin, Ask Elklit, Jytte Banner Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Parent–Youth Discrepancies in Ratings of Youth Victimization: Associations With Psychological Adjustment
This study extends research examining the implications of parent–youth informant discrepancies on youth victimization. Latent class analysis (LCA) identified dyads distinguished by patterns of parent and youth report of victimization. Analyses examined how latent classes were related to adjustment (i.e., anxiety/depression, aggression, and delinquency) concurrently and at follow‐up assessment (~2.5 years) in a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample. Participants were 485 youths (58.1% male; M age = 12.83 years, SD = 1.60) and their primary caregivers from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neigh...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kimberly Goodman Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Child Maltreatment Reports in Israel: The Intersection Between Community Socioeconomic Characteristics and Ethnicity
The authors examined the relationship between community characteristics and child maltreatment reports in Israel, comparing Jewish and Arab localities both in terms of maltreatment reports and the responses of the social services to these reports. Administrative data were obtained from the protective services and the Central Bureau of Statistics for 231 local authorities in Israel (covering 98% of children in Israel). Jewish communities showed significantly more reports of sexual abuse and physical abuse than Arab communities. Reporting rates also showed different associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables. ...
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yafit Sulimani‐Aidan, Rami Benbenishty Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Holding Accountability Accountable: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Achievement Test Scores
(Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry)
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Murray Levine, Adeline Levine Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

So Close and Yet So Far Away: Social Class, Social Exclusion, and Mental Health Practice
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Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Laura Smith Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

A Swan Song (or a Fanfare): Some Thoughts of an Institute Director After 30 Years of Service
(Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry)
Source: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - January 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gary B. Melton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research