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Bidirectional Associations Between Co-Parenting And Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Jennifer I. Trempala
Bidirectional Associations Between Co-Parenting And Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Jennifer I. Trempala
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The associations between how parents’ co-parenting influence adolescent’s mental health, and how adolescents’ mental health influences parent’s co-parenting are compared in this study. Participants were parents who had a first-born adolescent about to enter sixth grade and they were currently living in the same household. The participants took questionnaires at three time points, every eight weeks, through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). This research study focuses on only the first two-time points and questionnaires about co-parenting dimensions (i.e., conflict, triangulation, cooperation) and adolescents’ depressive symptoms. Six linear regressions were run using SPSS 21, and all analyses controlled for the corresponding Time …
Experiences And Needs Of Parents After Their Child's Suicide Attempt, Maryna V. Haponava
Experiences And Needs Of Parents After Their Child's Suicide Attempt, Maryna V. Haponava
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The purpose of this literature review is to examine parents’ needs and experiences after their child committed a suicide attempt. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (2017), a suicide attempt is when a person injures herself or himself in order to kill herself or himself, but the actions do not result in death. The American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (2018) has analyzed the data and concluded that in 2015, 8.6 % of adolescents in grades 9-12 reported having made at least one suicide attempt in the past 12 months. Most of the time in the situation of a …