The effects of family context on adult offspring of patients with Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study
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Familial emotion-management techniques are the best predictors of changes in the health of offspring who function as caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease patients. Caregiving also influences other family members indirectly involved with the care. Offspring care-hours, gender, education, distress, patient severity characteristics of family functioning are used to predict offspring health 12 months after the initial patient evaluation. The findings contribute to the data on family context of care, and recommend family setting as a target of treatment.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 1996
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Prospects and possibilities - next steps in sound understanding of youth violence: reply to Kuperminc and Reppuci (1996), Henggeler (1996), Dakof (1996), and McCord (1996)
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There is a solid basis to the knowledge about youth violence and ways for intervening with it but there is still much to be learned. This view falls between that of Scott W. Henggeler and Joan McCord. Youth violence is an issue that can appear too complex for a scientific approach to work. However, it is so serious that scientific approaches must be tried to understand it and to think of interventions. The slow and scientific approach offers the best possibility of real advances.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 1996
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Assessment of family relationship characteristics: A measure to explain risk for antisocial behavior and depression among urban youth
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Family processes often contribute to risk for antisocial behavior amongst urban youth. An assessment model was developed and cross-validated based on two large samples of urban familes. Cohesion, deviant beliefs, organization, beliefs about family, support and communications were the six scales, producing a 3-dimension higher order factor model. Tests supported the dependence on composite family scoring. The majority of scales related to depression and aggression.
Publication Name: Psychological Assessment
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 1040-3590
Year: 1997
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