Acting Out
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Behavior predictors of language development over 2 years in children with autism spectrum disorders.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: This exploratory study examined predictive relationships between 5 types of behaviors and the trajectories of vocabulary and language development in young children with autism over 2 years. METHOD: Participants were 69 children with autism ... Read more...

The effects of exposure to community violence on aspects of adolescent identity development.

29 Apr 2009 PROBLEM: A gap exists in our understanding of the impact of exposure to community violence on identity development. The purpose of this study was to explore how exposure to community violence affects adolescents' identity development. Data were ... Read more...

Gay fathers' effects on children: a review.

30 Mar 2009 Extrapolating results from studies of lesbians' children to gays' children and assertions of "no risk to children as a result of growing up in a family with 1 or more gay parents" are questioned. A review of 9 studies gave evidence that gays' ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Acting Out'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Behavior predictors of language development over 2 years in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Sep 2009
• The effects of exposure to community violence on aspects of adolescent identity development. 29 Apr 2009
• Gay fathers' effects on children: a review. 30 Mar 2009
• Truth as a way of developing and preserving the space for thinking in the minds of the patient and the analyst. 30 Mar 2009
• Salivary alpha-amylase as a longitudinal predictor of children's externalizing symptoms: respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a moderator of effects. 3 Feb 2009
• A view from Riggs: treatment resistance and patient authority--X: from acting out to enactment in treatment resistant disorders. 30 Dec 2008
• Developmental psychopathological perspectives on sexually compulsive behavior. 29 Nov 2008
• Externalizing disorders in American Indians: comorbidity and a genome wide linkage analysis. 3 Sep 2008
• Can music preference indicate mental health status in young people? 30 Jul 2008
• Salivary cortisol levels and infant temperament shape developmental trajectories in boys at risk for behavioral maladjustment. 20 Jul 2008
• Self-presentational concerns and competitive anxiety. 30 May 2008
• Acting on harmful command hallucinations in psychotic disorders: an integrative approach. 29 Apr 2008
• HPA-axis activity and externalizing behavior problems in early adolescents from the general population: the role of comorbidity and gender The TRAILS study. 27 Apr 2008
• The "nesting phase": process or non-process in the psychoanalytic work? 30 Mar 2008
• Group processes and the therapist's subjectivity: interactive transference in analytical group psychotherapy. 30 Mar 2008
• [Psychopathology in eating disorders: new trends] 29 Jan 2008
• Autism spectrum disorders in institutionalized subjects. 30 Dec 2007
• Dysregulation and containment in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of a poorly controlled diabetic patient. 30 Dec 2007
• Relations of self-reported maternal acceptance and behavioral control with acting-out aggressive behavior in children diagnosed with ADHD. 29 Nov 2007
• Performance as annihilation or integration? 29 Sep 2007

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Technical information about 'Acting Out'

Definition: Expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings, often of hostility or love, through overt behavior.

Descriptor UI: D000184

Alternative terms: Acting Out;

Tree Number: F01.393.047;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: no qualif