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Child And Parent Readiness To Change In A Clinical Sample Of Obese Youth, Jean E. Cobb
Child And Parent Readiness To Change In A Clinical Sample Of Obese Youth, Jean E. Cobb
Psychology Dissertations
Parent and child readiness to change have been identified as emerging areas informing pediatric obesity interventions. The purpose of this study was to increase understanding of child and parent readiness to change in obese youth by examining how these constructs are related to demographic variables, as well as to psychosocial functioning, in a sample of obese youth presenting for weight- management treatment. A secondary aim was to examine consistency between parent and child readiness to change. Two hundred twenty-eight 7- to 17-year-old children and their parents participated during the child’s initial assessment at a multidisciplinary weight-management clinic. Demographic variables included …
The Impact Of Psychological Acceptance And Sibling Relationship Quality On Depression And Perceived Stigma For Youth Living With Hiv, Kara E. Snead
The Impact Of Psychological Acceptance And Sibling Relationship Quality On Depression And Perceived Stigma For Youth Living With Hiv, Kara E. Snead
Psychology Dissertations
Compared to their uninfected peers, youth living with HIV experience greater distress related to a multitude of stressors they face. In order to enhance the lives of youth who are living with HIV, it is important to identify the personal and social resources that these individuals might bring to coping with their disease. Using the compensatory hypothesis and resiliency theory as conceptual frameworks, the present study examined the function of both psychological acceptance and sibling relationships for youths in managing depression and HIV-related stigma. In addition, the current study investigated the interactive effects of psychological acceptance and sibling relationship quality …
Measuring Children’S Perceptions Of Their Mother’S Depression: The Children’S Perceptions Of Others’ Depression Scale – Mother Version, Sherryl H. Goodman, Erin C. Tully, Corey L. Hartman, Arin M. Connell, Myoyeon Huh
Measuring Children’S Perceptions Of Their Mother’S Depression: The Children’S Perceptions Of Others’ Depression Scale – Mother Version, Sherryl H. Goodman, Erin C. Tully, Corey L. Hartman, Arin M. Connell, Myoyeon Huh
Psychology Faculty Publications
Several theoretical perspectives suggest that knowledge of children’s perceptions of and beliefs about their parents’ depression may be critical for understanding its impact on children. This paper describes the development and preliminary evidence for the psychometric properties of a new measure, the Children’s Perceptions of Others’ Depression – Mother Version (CPOD-MV), which assesses theoretically- and empirically driven constructs related to children’s understanding and beliefs about their mothers’ depression. These constructs include children’s perceptions of the severity, chronicity, and impairing nature of their mothers’ depression; self-blame for their mother’s depression; and beliefs about their abilities to deal with their mother's depression …
Neural Responses To Feedback Regarding Betrayal And Cooperation In Adolescents With Anxiety And Mood Disorders, Erin B. Tone
Neural Responses To Feedback Regarding Betrayal And Cooperation In Adolescents With Anxiety And Mood Disorders, Erin B. Tone
Psychology Faculty Publications
This study examined patterns of neural response to feedback regarding betrayal and cooperation in adolescents with anxiety/mood disorders and healthy peers. We compared performance on and neural activation patterns during the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) game, an economic exchange task involving betrayal and cooperation, between age- and IQ-matched groups of adolescents with anxiety/depressive disorders (A/D) (N=13) and healthy controls (n=17). Participants were deceived to believe that their co-player (a pre-programmed computer algorithm) was another study participant. Although participants responded similarly following feedback that the co-player had cooperated with them on preceding trials, A/D adolescents were more likely than controls to cooperate …