190 research outputs found
Integration of research and clinical practice: an innovative child and family service for the young children of the New Forest with primary health care colleagues
No full textStudy of psychological problems in families with children with cystic fibrosis in Wessex
No full textA joint assessment and treatment service for the under fives: work with health visitors in a child guidance clinic, paper 1: method
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A joint assessment and treatment service for the under fives. Work with health visitors in a child guidance clinic. Paper 2: outcome
No full textMental health of pre-school children and their mothers in a mixed urban/rural population. III: latent variable models
No full textBACKGROUND: There is a lack of clear and explicit models of the way various family and social influences on children's behaviour interact with factors such as temperament to produce behaviour disturbance in young children. METHOD: The following measures had been obtained on a total population sample of 1047 families with a 3-year-old child: the child's perceived cuddliness, difficult temperament, mother's unhappy childhood, maternal disturbance, social class, behaviour problems and overactivity. A latent variable analysis using the LISREL 7 program was applied to the data. RESULTS: A model that allowed the latent variables child 'temperament' and 'mother's mental state' to have separate additive effects on 'child adaptation' proved an excellent fit (goodness of fit index = 0.956). This model suggests that there is a common factor ('child adaptation') underlying behaviour problems and overactivity. Using this model 72% of child adaptation in boys could be explained. For girls however temperament and mother's mental state accounted for only 30% of the variance in child adaptation. CONCLUSION: There is a need to investigate different mechanisms for the origins of behaviour problems in preschool boys and girls
Mental health of preschool children and their mothers in a mixed urban/rural population. II: family and maternal factors and child behaviour
No full textThe extent to which certain maternal, child and family characteristics are associated in families with a 3-year-old child were examined. METHOD: A total population of families with a 3-year-old child and living in the New Forest were identified. Measures of child behaviour and the maternal GHQ-30 were obtained. RESULTS: Whereas behaviour problems were found to be significantly associated with all maternal and family factors (except social class), difficult temperament was only related to mother's recall of their own childhood as unhappy and overactivity was only significantly associated with maternal disturbance. CONCLUSIONS: The results are consistent with maternal disturbance and difficult temperament acting independently and additively to influence the development of behaviour problems in preschool children
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