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Anticipated Coping With Interpersonal Stressors: Links With The Emotional Reactions Of Sadness, Anger, And Fear, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Ellen Skinner, Helen Morris, Rae Thomas
Anticipated Coping With Interpersonal Stressors: Links With The Emotional Reactions Of Sadness, Anger, And Fear, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Ellen Skinner, Helen Morris, Rae Thomas
Rae Thomas
The same stressor can evoke different emotions across individuals, and emotions can prompt certain coping responses. Responding to four videotaped interpersonal stressors, adolescents (N = 230, mean age = 10 years) reported their sadness, fear and anger, and 12 coping strategies. After identifying emotion patterns using cluster analysis, associations with coping were examined. Intensity of emotion, and emotion and stressor type were associated with coping. Adolescents with intense emotions (i.e., highly sad, afraid, and angry) anticipated using more of most coping responses, whereas diffuse but moderate intensity emotion was associated with more active coping relative to other strategies. Anger was …
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: A Manualized Intervention For The Therapeutic Child Welfare Sector, Rae Thomas, Amy Herschell
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: A Manualized Intervention For The Therapeutic Child Welfare Sector, Rae Thomas, Amy Herschell
Rae Thomas
Children who have experienced maltreatment can often display behavioral difficulties; their parents may lack disciplinary knowledge, be less sensitive to their children, and engage in coercive parenting practices. Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is a well-known, evidence-based treatment (EBT) for child behavior problems and within the last decade has garnered significant evidence to suggest its utility for parents engaged in child maltreatment. This article uses a case example to describe PCIT treatment phases and PCIT research within the child maltreatment sector is synthesized with particular focus on treatment modifications. Successful augmentations and modifications include a motivation component, keeping therapeutic time shorter …