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Psychology

2014

Homelessness

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The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Class Explores, Leeann Bartolini Dec 2013

The Homeless Mentally Ill: A Class Explores, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

This blog is created to foster faculty and student engagement focusing on the topic of the homeless mentally ill. Much research, scholarship, discussion, and money has been and is currently devoted to solving this problem. In the Spring of 2014, students in Dr. Bartolini’s Abnormal Psychology course (yes, she’d rather it be called the Psychology of Mental Illness) will be summarizing past research from the last four decades on this topic and examining various city based attempted solutions

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Parenting And Co-Regulation: Adaptive Systems For Competence In Children Experiencing Homelessness, Janette E. Herbers, J. J. Cutuli, Laura M. Supkoff, Angela J. Narayan, Ann S. Masten Dec 2013

Parenting And Co-Regulation: Adaptive Systems For Competence In Children Experiencing Homelessness, Janette E. Herbers, J. J. Cutuli, Laura M. Supkoff, Angela J. Narayan, Ann S. Masten

J. J. Cutuli

The role of effective parenting in promoting child executive functioning and school success was examined among 138 children (age 4 to 6 years) staying in family emergency shelters the summer before kindergarten or first grade. Parent-child co-regulation, which refers to relationship processes wherein parents guide and respond to the behavior of their children, was observed during structured interaction tasks and quantified as a dyadic construct using state space grid methodology. Positive co-regulation was related to children’s executive functioning and IQ, which in turn were related to teacher-reported outcomes once school began. Separate models considering parenting behavior demonstrated that EF carried …

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