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SummaryThis study investigates the role of parental expressed emotion (EE) in families of well‐adjusted children. These were randomly selected from two school populations representing two different socio‐economic backgrounds. Maternal criticism was strongly correlated with children's behaviour, although both the EE ratings and the scores of children's behaviour were within the established normal range. Mothers were more emotionally over‐involved but also more positive towards their children in manual families. Fathers expressed more warmth towards boys. Clinical and methodological issues regarding the concept of EE are disc

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00358.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryService contacts, perceived helpfulness of services and needs for help were investigated in a sample of 107 families of young children with severe physical disability. Many families were in contact with a multiplicity of different services and overall frequency of contact was high. Despite this, there was evidence of considerable unmet need, particularly in the provision of information to families. Families with the highest levels of unmet need were likely to have experienced high levels of strain from life events and to have children with mental retardation as well as physical disability, fathers in those families were more likely to be unemployed and mothers were more likely to use passive optimism in coping with child problems. The findings indicate the importance of services which are easily accessible to parents, the provision of information to parents about such services, the co‐ordination of services through a ‘link’ person and the accurate and individual assessment of family

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00359.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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SummarySome children, who are otherwise normal, experience unusual difficulties with the acquisition and performance of motor skills. These children are commonly described as being clumsy. Impaired performance of motor skills, to the degree experienced by clumsy children, is unlikely to present a serious problem. However, a review of the literature suggests that significant associated and secondary emotional problems are common. In particular, such problems are likely to result in children not achieving their full potential. Therefore, it is important that the cause of affected children's impaired motor skills be recognized early so that these problems can be avoided, or at least minimized, by a sympathetic understanding of their difficulties. The problem is that, whilst severely affected children can be readily recognized, identification of mildly and moderately clumsy children is difficult.

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00360.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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SummaryAlthough parental involvement has been a major development in the field of disability and handicap, there has been relatively little systematic investigation of the value and appreciation of parental involvement from the parent's point of view. This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family‐focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement. The evidence showed that the overall appraisal of the Centre was high but, given the choice, individual parents selected and appreciated different kinds of parental involvement services. Certain family background variables were associated with the pattern of selection and ratin

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00361.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary‘Lead and its compounds are potentially toxic; the element has no known physiological function; it is widely distributed in nature and as a result of man's activities’ (Lawther Report: DHSS 1980). Concern grew in the late 1970s that even low levels of exposure to lead caused adverse changes in children's adjustment and academic attainment. This paper traces the rapid developments of the past decade in investigating the relationship between body lead burden and relevant outcome measures. Research strategies moved from small‐scale, clinical‐descriptive studies to large‐scale epidemiological studies; from cross‐sectional studies to longitudinal ones. Agreement had to be reached on how to measure body lead burden. Decisions had to be made on which outcome measures to use. Measures of global intelligence were complemented by measures of academic attainment, emotional adjustment and hyperactivity, as well as by experimental measures of more basic psychophysiological functioning. Ways had to be found of dealing experimentally and statistically with socio‐economic factors which acted as confounds. The investigations were marked by tremendous collaboration between investigators, between national agencies and across countries. The methodological issues are relevant to the investigation of other toxins and they define a field of developmental behavioural toxicology. This case study can act as a model for investigating the effects of other environmental toxin

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00362.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this articles:An Aid to Paediatric Surgeryedited by R. A. MacMahon.The Normal Child10th edn by Ronald S. IllingworthChild Care, Some Nursing Perspectivesedited by Alan Glasper.

ISSN:0305-1862    

DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00363.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY