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  • Supporting children who struggle with self-regulation : the role of early family risk and child care quality

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    Pratt, Megan E.
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    Children's early self-regulation skills have long-term implications for a variety of academic, social, and health outcomes. Unfortunately, children facing multiple family risk factors (e.g., harsh parenting, economic disadvantage) are more likely to struggle with early self-regulation. Despite early disparities in self-regulation, promising intervention evidence suggests that high quality prekindergarten experiences...
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    differences in children’s early self-regulation, with children characterized by the profile including high

  • Parental beliefs and practices : influences of parenting in Latino/a and Caucasian children's behavioral regulation

    Creator:
    Diaz, Guadalupe
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    The transition to kindergarten can be challenging for many children who do not have the necessary skills to meet the demands of classroom settings such as paying attention, remembering instructions, and demonstrating self-control. Children who lack the necessary behavioral regulation skills to meet the demands in the classroom environment are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , remembering instructions, and demonstrating self-control. Children who lack the necessary behavioral

  • Do Family Risk Classes Predict Attrition in Parent Child Interaction Therapy?

    Creator:
    Hartman, Grace M.
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    Child behavior disorders are the second most prevalent form of mental illness affecting children in the United States (Perou et al., 2013), with lifetime prevalence estimated at 10% (Nock, Kazdin, Hiripi & Kessler, 2007). Negative outcomes associated with ODD during childhood and adolescence include conflict in families, poor peer relationships,...
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    behavior disorders are the second most prevalent form of mental illness affecting children in the United

  • "I'm the best of both worlds" : factors influencing the racial identities of biracial youth

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    Mouzong, Christine LeAnn
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    This study examined the social and contextual factors that lead to differences in the way biracial adolescents interpret their racial identity. Using 11 interviews with a sample of biracial youth between the ages of 14 and 17-years-old, this study also explores the strategies these individuals use to achieve social validation...
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    children in the socio- racial hierarchy” ( Rockquemore, 1998). In this view, a separate status for

  • Parental warmth and children's effortful control : predictors of social-emotional competency

    Creator:
    Murray, Amy K.
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    Recent research has examined complex relationships between parent and child characteristics and the development of children’s social-emotional competencies. The over-arching objective of the current study was to compare differential patterns of predictability between the individual social-emotional competencies of cooperation, responsibility, and independence, and a social-emotional competency composite, to parental warmth...
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    of Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on March 22, 2007. Title

  • Emotion regulation and hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence

    Creator:
    Lewis, Kendra M.
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    This study posited that maturational growth in emotion regulation should be associated with reduction in hyperactivity during the transition into adolescence. The longitudinal design assessed emotion regulation and hyperactivity in an urban community sample of children in three waves, at ages 10.6, 11.6, and 12.6 years. A parallel growth curve...
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    design assessed emotion regulation and hyperactivity in an urban community sample of children in three

  • A qualitative analysis of clinical records from a trauma response program for families exposed to violence

    Creator:
    Behan, Kathleen G.
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    This dissertation is a qualitative secondary content analysis of clinical records collected for the Spokane Safe Start Project in Spokane, Washington, a program designed to offset trauma in children exposed to domestic and intimate partner violence (IPV). The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have identified intimate...
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    Dissertation
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    in children exposed to caregiver intimate partner violence. To this end, the four research

  • Evaluation of a social-emotional and character development program : methods and outcomes

    Creator:
    Lewis, Kendra M.
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    Schools are increasingly expected to prevent and decrease violence, substance use, and other problem behaviors linked to academics and prepare students to be contributing members of society. One approach with proven success in promoting positive outcomes related to a broad range of student behaviors and personal characteristics is social-emotional learning,...
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    effective in improving the SECD developmental status of children from this population. Data for this