Family Resilience Amid Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Model for Families Headed by Same ‐Sex Parents
We describe a model of family resilience, grounded in minority stress theory, that may help inform the research agenda on families headed by same‐sex parents. Our conceptual framework of family resilience can guide the next wave of research with LG families and may help programs to promote key family strengths. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Prendergast, David MacPhee Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Birth Family Contact Experiences Among Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents With School ‐Age Children
ConclusionAlthough some differences in birth family contact distinguished lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parent families, these families generally appeared more similar than different.
ImplicationsImplications—particularly a need for demonstrated competencies in adoption openness—are discussed for adoption professionals in policy, practice, and legal realms. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel H. Farr, Yelena Ravvina, Harold D. Grotevant Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Supporting Family Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients: A Focus Group Study
ConclusionThis study allowed us to identify caregiver‐perceived intervention needs, barriers to access and continuity of intervention, and suggestions for intervention design.
ImplicationsThis information is of value to inform the design of interventions for this population. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rinat Nissim, Sarah Hales, Camilla Zimmermann, Amy Deckert, Beth Edwards, Gary Rodin Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Predictors of Internalizing Behaviors in Ukrainian Children
ConclusionThese results raise awareness about the importance of child familial backgrounds while trying to address child mental health problems in Ukraine.
ImplicationsFamily practitioners may want to help mothers learn and apply positive parenting and effective supervision and monitoring skills to help reduce their children's depression and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, helping to decrease maternal depression may have a positive trickle‐down effect on their children's internalizing behaviors. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Viktor Burlaka, Yi Jin Kim, Jandel M. Crutchfield, Teresa A. Lefmann, Emma S. Kay Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Maternal Gatekeeping Scale: Constructing a Measure
ConclusionThe use of different items for mothers and fathers will allow scholars to account for differences depending on whether the reporter is engaged in gatekeeping or the recipient of gatekeeping behavior.
ImplicationsThe new measure may be a useful tool for researchers attempting to measure maternal gatekeeping as a multidimensional construct. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel J. Puhlman, Kay Pasley Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Parental Depression and Cooperative Coparenting: A Longitudinal and Dyadic Approach
ConclusionThe results not only highlight the importance of both parents' mental health on coparenting but also the added role that fathers' depression plays in shaping their own and their partners' perceptions of coparenting.
ImplicationsPolicy makers and family practitioners who are invested in building healthy families may find it valuable to screen for and treat mental illness in the context of creating programs to increase cooperative coparenting. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Deadric T. Williams Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
The Parental Stress Scale: Psychometric Properties in Families of Children With Chronic Health Conditions
ConclusionThe PSS is valid and reliable in parents of children with chronic health conditions.
ImplicationsHaving established robust psychometric properties of the PSS, research is needed to extend its utility and routine use in clinical and public health settings. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica J. Zelman, Mark A. Ferro Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Marital Benefits of Daily Individual and Conjoint Exercise Among Older Couples
ConclusionExercise may provide unique relationship benefits for individuals and couples. Results indicated that relationships benefit from both individual and especially conjoint couple exercise.
ImplicationsCouples who exercise conjointly may experience more positive marital interactions. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - December 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy B. Yorgason, Lee N. Johnson, Melanie S. Hill, Bailey Selland Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Parent –Child Contact for Youth in Foster Care: Research to Inform Practice
ConclusionWhen parent–child contact is safely possible, more frequent contact with mothers is associated with beneficial youth outcomes.
ImplicationsApplying a translational family science approach, implications for engaging mothers and fathers in visitation are discussed. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - November 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lenore M. McWey, Ming Cui Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
What Relationship Researchers and Relationship Practitioners Wished the Other Knew: Integrating Discovery and Practice in Couple Relationships
As we consider what both family scientists and practitioners can learn from each other, we discuss important advances in relationship and marriage education (RME). We note best practices for research and review recent evaluative findings from randomized controlled trial studies that have important implications for RME. An almost singular RME focus on teaching communication and conflict resolution skills may not be as valuable as it was believed to be. We discuss recent shifts in RME, share results from recent research, and advocate for a balanced approach that incorporates both skill‐based and principles‐based approach...
Source: Family Relations - November 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David G. Schramm, Adam M. Galovan, H. Wallace Goddard Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Family Instability and Children's Health
This article describes how basic science in this area can more effectively support work in later stages of the translational research process. To begin, the scope of family instability is outlined with trends, causes, and effects. Next, a conceptual model of the effects of family instability on children's health identifies focal aspects that could be leveraged for translational research: developmental domain, developmental time, mechanisms, and points of variation. The guidelines presented are meant to be general and applicable to a variety of topics and fields in which family scholars aim to improve basic research that ca...
Source: Family Relations - November 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chelsea Smith, Robert Crosnoe, Shannon E. Cavanagh Tags: Review Source Type: research
Actor –Partner Associations of Mindfulness and Marital Quality After Military Deployment
ConclusionMindfulness engenders intra‐ and interpersonal benefits for the marital system in men and in women after deployment to war.
ImplicationsThe results emphasize the importance of a dyadic approach when examining the role of mindfulness in marital or family relations, and suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in marital relationships in the context of deployment may benefit from integrating mindfulness‐based training. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - October 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Osnat Zamir, Abigail H. Gewirtz, Na Zhang Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
How Does Couple and Relationship Education Affect Relationship Hope? An Intervention ‐Process Study with Lower Income Couples
ConclusionWe conclude that relationship hope is a legitimate target outcome in CRE and is influenced by improvement in positive interaction skills, consistent with social learning theory. Also, those entering CRE with low levels of hope improve interaction skills most, and men's growth produces larger gains for the couple relationship than women's growth.
ImplicationsDistressed individuals and couples should be particularly encouraged to attend CRE programs, and program developers should make sure that their curricula and pedagogic processes are well aligned with men's interests and learning styles. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - October 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alan J. Hawkins, Sage E. Allen, Chongming Yang Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Moods, Stressors, and Severity of Marital Conflict: A Daily Diary Study of Low ‐Income Families
ConclusionFamily‐strengthening interventions may be able to reduce the tendency for negative moods and stressors to manifest in more severe marital conflict.
ImplicationsPrograms may benefit from explicitly addressing the moods and stressors that individual husbands and wives report experiencing in their daily lives. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - October 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meghan P. McCormick, JoAnn Hsueh, Christine Merrilees, Patricia Chou, E. Mark Cummings Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Family Stressors and Resources: Relationships with Depressive Symptoms in Military Couples During Pre ‐Deployment
ConclusionResults indicated that logistical and instrumental preparation, in addition to informal resources such as effective family functioning and social support, are important for positive adaptation in times of stressful transition.
ImplicationsFamily service professionals may want to assist families with identifying and strengthening their family support and improving family functioning, as well as guide families in a process of identifying the instrumental and logistical tasks that are necessary or helpful for an impending transition. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - October 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christina L. Collins, Kyung ‐Hee Lee, Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
