Parental Pre ‐ and Postpartum Mental Health Predicts Child Mental Health and Development
ConclusionThe pre‐ and postnatal mental health of mothers and fathers is important for later child development.
ImplicationsTo support healthy child development, both parents need to be screened for early mental health problems, and psychological help should be offered to families across the pre‐ and postpartum period. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mervi V änskä, Raija‐Leena Punamäki, Jallu Lindblom, Marjo Flykt, Asko Tolvanen, Leila Unkila‐Kallio, Maija Tulppala, Aila Tiitinen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Teaching Undergraduates About LGBTQ Identities, Families, and Intersectionality
Abstract
Teaching undergraduate students about LGBTQ identities and family issues presents several challenges, or “opportunities,” which we address within personal, ecological, and historical contexts. We begin by articulating our positionality as scholars and instructors, and the feminist intersectional and queer lens that guides our research and pedagogy. We organize our presentation of contemporary teaching opportunities around three primary and interrelated topics: (a) teaching about LGBTQ issues with attention to intersectionality as a conceptual framework, (b) teaching about sexual orientation diversity and fluid...
Source: Family Relations - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Many Mornings After: Campus Sexual Assault and Feminist Politics
This article presents an appraisal of this historical legacy and draws out key lessons to be learned from the history of feminist organizing around sexual assault on campuses. The author explains how radical, liberal, and socialist feminist politics offer different lenses for framing sexual assault and discusses the value of a psychoanalytic feminist optics for thinking through dilemmas at the level of political practice. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janice Haaken Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Experiences of Sexual Minority Mothers with Trans* Children
Abstract
Eight nonheterosexual (i.e., bisexual, lesbian, bi/pansexual) mothers with trans* children between 6 and 11 years of age participated in semistructured interviews in which they discussed the intersections of their own sexual minority identities with their children's gender identities or expressions. Transfamily theory was utilized to understand how heteronormativity and cisnormativity operated in these families' lives. Initial lack of awareness among most of the mothers regarding trans* identities, as well as efforts by some to curb their children's gender expressions, paralleled previous reports on primarily hete...
Source: Family Relations - March 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Samuel H. Allen, Cat Munroe, Abbie E. Goldberg, Judith L. Weiner Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Parent –Child Relationships and Adolescents' Life Satisfaction Across the First Decade of the New Millennium
ConclusionThere were small positive changes in some family dimensions, and some of them were increasingly important for adolescent life satisfaction over time.
ImplicationsInterventions for strengthening parent–child relationships and promoting adolescent well‐being should include mothers and fathers and emphasize affection, communication, and family activities. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Antonia Jim énez‐Iglesias, Irene García‐Moya, Carmen Moreno Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Role of Marital Adjustment in Associations Between Romantic Attachment and Coparenting
ConclusionResults highlight the benefit of conceptualizing parental attachment, marital, and coparental subsystems within a systemic framework and suggest that a healthy marital relationship is an important intervening factor that helps explain links between attachment security and the coparenting alliance.
ImplicationsFindings underscore the importance of evaluating and treating multiple levels of the family system and suggest that therapeutic treatment of the marital relationship may be associated with a healthier coparenting dynamic. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michelle Young, Shelley Riggs, Patricia Kaminski Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Parental Participation in the Process of Youth Joining a Program: Perspectives from Adolescents and Parents
ConclusionFindings indicate that a multitude of factors intersect and shape whether and how parents attempt to influence the joining process and manage adolescents' social activities.
ImplicationsOur findings can be used by program administrators and youth leaders to strengthen outreach and recruitment efforts with adolescents from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse family backgrounds. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hyeyoung Kang, Marcela Raffaelli, Jill Bowers, Lorraine Munoz, Sandra Simpkins Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Associations Between Economic Pressure and Diabetes Efficacy in Couples with Type 2 Diabetes
ConclusionThese results provide evidence that the economic pressure couples with type 2 diabetes face may reduce the patient and spouse's confidence in the patient's diabetes management ability.
ImplicationsThis study demonstrates the importance of couple's relationship processes in buffering the impact of economic pressure on diabetes management, providing a clear target for intervention and education efforts. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joshua R. Novak, Jared R. Anderson, Matthew D. Johnson, Ann Walker, Allison Wilcox, Virginia L. Lewis, David C. Robbins Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Spillover of Child ‐Related Stress into Parents' Relationship Mediated by Couple Communication
ConclusionThe study suggests that child‐related stress is among the challenges that may impair parents' relationship quality, partially mediated through worsened couple communication.
ImplicationsThe findings support the potential benefits of prevention programs aimed at reducing child‐related stress and enhancing couple coping skills for maintaining parents' relationship satisfaction over time. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Martina Zemp, Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, E. Mark Cummings, Guy Bodenmann Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
African American Extended Family and Church ‐Based Social Network Typologies
We examined social network typologies among African American adults and their sociodemographic correlates. Network types were derived from indicators of the family and church networks. Latent class analysis was based on a nationally representative sample of African Americans from the National Survey of American Life. Results indicated four distinct network types: ambivalent, optimal, family centered, and strained. These four types were distinguished by (a) degree of social integration, (b) network composition, and (c) level of negative interactions. In a departure from previous work, a network type composed solely of nonki...
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann W. Nguyen, Linda M. Chatters, Robert Joseph Taylor Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parent –Child Estrangement: Conditions for Disclosure and Perceived Social Network Member Reactions
Disclosing a family disruption like estrangement might be an important first step in garnering supportive communication, yet disclosure also might come with costs. Grounded in the disclosure literatures, this study illuminates the conditions under which adult children disclose estrangement from parents to their social networks and the perceived reactions of social network members to such disclosures. Findings from a thematic analysis of 52 narrative interviews reveal that adult children go to great lengths to keep their estrangement private, but disclose (a) when others witnessed conflict, (b) when asked, (c) when disclosu...
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kristina M. Scharp Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Renegotiating Nonresidential Father –Child Relationships During Emerging Adulthood
Father–child relationships tend to decrease in quality and closeness following parental divorce, yet little is known about how these relationships evolve in response to normative developmental changes in children. We conducted a grounded theory study of how 33 emerging adults maintained or changed their relationships with their nonresidential fathers during the transition to adulthood. In‐depth interviews revealed that some father–child relationships were unchanged by divorce, but most became more distant immediately following parental separation. During emerging adulthood these relationships did not necessarily beco...
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Richard Feistman, Tyler Jamison, Marilyn Coleman, Lawrence Ganong Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Parent –Adolescent Relationship Factors and Adolescent Outcomes Among High‐Risk Families
Using a stress‐process and attachment theory framework, we identified salient aspects of the parent–adolescent relationship and tested the extent to which those aspects were longitudinally associated with depression, withdrawal, delinquency, and aggressive behavior outcomes among a sample of high‐risk adolescents (N = 498). First, four dimensions of the parent–adolescent relationship were identified: emotional closeness, communication, autonomy, and conflict. Next, latent profile analyses were conducted, and four distinct parent–adolescent relationship profiles emerged: secure, avoidant, anxious, and detached. Ad...
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mathew C. Withers, Lenore M. McWey, Mallory Lucier ‐Greer Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Intimate Partner Violence, Maternal Gatekeeping, and Child Conduct Problems
We examined the mediating role of parenting behavior on the relationship between intimate partner violence and child conduct problems, as well as the moderating role of maternal gatekeeping to these associations. The sample (N = 395) is from a longitudinal study of rural poverty in the eastern United States exploring the ways in which child, family, and contextual factors shape child development over time. Study findings indicate that a father's harsh–intrusive parenting behavior may be a key mediating pathway linking intimate partner violence and child conduct problems. Study findings further provide evidence for proble...
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bharathi J. Zvara, W. Roger Mills ‐Koonce, Martha Cox, Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
A Person ‐Oriented Analysis of Couple and Relationship Education
This study explored the benefit of using a person‐oriented analysis for evaluating CRE program effectiveness with low‐income couples and individuals. Couple participants reported moderate improvement in communication and relationship satisfaction, but the magnitude of reported improvement varied for male participants from different ethnic groups. An outcomes‐focused cluster analysis showed that variance in reported improvement can be explained by pre‐workshop outcome measures, with couples starting in the middle range of scores reporting the most improvement. Similar patterns were found for individual participants....
Source: Family Relations - January 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Devin G. DuPree, Jason B. Whiting, Steven M. Harris Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
