Mediational intervention for sensitizing caregivers to improve mental health outcomes in orphaned and vulnerable children

C Sharp, P Kulesz, L Marais, C Shohet… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective There is an urgent need to equip community-based careworkers with the skills to
address the mental health needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as an essential …

Health selection into eviction: adverse birth outcomes and children's risk of eviction through age 5 years

GL Schwartz, KM Leifheit, LF Berkman… - American journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Adverse birth outcomes put children at increased risk of poor future health. They also put
families under sudden socioeconomic and psychological strain, which has poorly …

A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning

J Garon-Bissonnette, K Dubois-Comtois… - Attachment & Human …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Childhood maltreatment is theorized as impeding the development of reflective functioning
(RF; ability to perceive and interpret oneself and others in terms of mental states). However …

[HTML][HTML] Association between availability of children's book and the literacy-numeracy skills of children aged 36 to 59 months: secondary analysis of the UNICEF …

A Manu, F Ewerling, AJD Barros… - Journal of global …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Stimulating home environments that have children's books, pictures and play
toys facilitate caregiver-child interactions and enhance children's development. Although …

Disparities in insulin resistance between black and white adults in the United States: The role of lifespan stress exposure

TE Fuller-Rowell, LK Homandberg, DS Curtis… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Disparities in insulin resistance between Black and White adults in the United
States are well documented, yet relatively little is known about the psychosocial or biological …

Top 10 (plus 1) research priorities for expectant families and those with children to age 24 months in Alberta, Canada: Results from the Family Research Agenda …

ML Brockway, E Keys, KS Bright, C Ginn, L Conlon… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The study objective was to identify the top 10 research priorities for expectant
parents and caregivers of children up to age 24 months. Design A priority setting partnership …

Cumulative risk and internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood: Compensatory and buffering roles of family functioning and family regularity

SI Hogye, N Lucassen, PW Jansen… - Adversity and Resilience …, 2022 - Springer
In this preregistered study, we studied the extent to which family functioning and family
regularity compensated for (compensatory model of resilience, Garmezy et al., Child …

Associations between maternal cytokine levels during gestation and measures of child cognitive abilities and executive functioning

MG Dozmorov, SD Bilbo, SH Kollins, N Zucker… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Preclinical studies demonstrate that environmentally-induced alterations in inflammatory
cytokines generated by the maternal and fetal immune system can significantly impact fetal …

An interpretive analysis of the early childhood development policy trajectory in post-apartheid South Africa

E Atmore - 2019 - scholar.sun.ac.za
Early childhood development (ECD) is universally recognised for its concern with the most
important foundation years of life, focussing on the holistic development of the young child's …

Examining the effects of Social Stories™ on challenging behavior and prosocial skills in young children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CL Wahman, JE Pustejovsky… - Topics in Early …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Social stories are a commonly used intervention practice in early childhood special
education. Recent systematic reviews have documented the evidence base for social …