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Skouteris, Helen; McCabe, Marita; Ricciardelli, Lina A.; Milgrom, Jeannette; Baur, Louise A.; Aksan, Nazan; Dell'Aquila, Daniela – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Child obesity research has generally not examined multiple layers of parent-child relationships during weight-related activities such as feeding, eating and play. A literature review was conducted to locate empirical studies that measured parent-child interactions and child eating and child weight variables; five papers met the inclusion criteria…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Prevention, Parent Child Relationship
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Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna; Helinski, Monica; Buchstein, Fred – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
In this research project we investigated the process of adoption of foster children by foster parents and the foster parents' ideas of how to help foster children going through the process of adoption or those who have been adopted. We sent questionnaires to 200 foster parents living in the Cleveland area, but just 23 foster parents replied.…
Descriptors: Adoption, Foster Care, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes
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Cunningham, Judi; Harris, Gillian; Vostanis, Panos; Oyebode, Femi; Blissett, Jackie – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
This study describes the pattern of emotional and behavioural difficulties of children whose mothers have mental illness, and explores the relationship between children's behavioural and emotional difficulties and maternal perceptions of attachment. Thirteen mothers previously admitted to psychiatric hospital for mental illness completed a measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Emotional Disturbances