Child of Impaired Parents - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Supporting children of parents who are dying.

29 Nov 2009 Nurses, parents and other family members tend to feel ill equipped when talking to children about a parent's impending death. Adults often feel the need to protect children from the reality of a parent's imminent death. However, research indicates ... Read more...

Vascular factors and markers of inflammation in offspring with a parental history of late-onset Alzheimer disease.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Alzheimer disease (AD) is a complex disorder with a strong heritable component. Amyloid pathology, vascular factors, and inflammation are postulated to be involved in its pathogenesis, but causality has not been established unequivocally. ... Read more...

Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype.

30 Oct 2009 CONTEXT: Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking (PEMCS) may affect brain development and behavior in adolescent offspring. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in mediating the relationship between PEMCS ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child of Impaired Parents - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Supporting children of parents who are dying. 29 Nov 2009
• Vascular factors and markers of inflammation in offspring with a parental history of late-onset Alzheimer disease. 30 Oct 2009
• Orbitofrontal cortex and drug use during adolescence: role of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking and BDNF genotype. 30 Oct 2009
• When a parent is chronically ill: chronic fatigue syndrome. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioural functioning of children where a parent has cancer: a multinational study. 30 Aug 2009
• A latent class analysis of maternal depressive symptoms over 12 years and offspring adjustment in adolescence. 30 Jul 2009
• How children cope when a parent has advanced cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Emotion dysregulation in the intergenerational transmission of romantic relationship conflict. 30 Jul 2009
• Childhood motor coordination and adult schizophrenia spectrum disorders. 13 Jul 2009
• Do parental psychopathology and unfavorable family environment predict the persistence of social phobia? 3 Jul 2009
• Unfavourable family characteristics and their associations with childhood obesity: a cross-sectional study. 29 Jun 2009
• Knowing kids dying of HIV: a traumatic event for AIDS orphans. 29 Jun 2009
• Predictors and pathways from infancy to symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence. 29 Jun 2009
• Depressive symptoms in mothers and children: preschool attachment as a moderator of risk. 29 Jun 2009
• Parent, family, and neighborhood effects on the development of child substance use and other psychopathology from preschool to the start of adulthood. 29 Jun 2009
• Association of adverse childhood environment with late-life depression. 28 Jun 2009
• Complex trauma among psychiatrically impaired children: a cross-sectional, chart-review study. 28 Jun 2009
• Subcortical volumetric correlates of anxiety in familial pediatric bipolar disorder: a preliminary investigation. 23 Jun 2009
• Common predictor effects for multivariate longitudinal data. 13 Jun 2009
• The Child Anxiety Prevention Study: intervention model and primary outcomes. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Child of Impaired Parents'

Definition: Child with one or more parents afflicted by a physical or mental disorder.

Descriptor UI: D016241

Alternative terms: Child of Impaired Parents; Offspring of Impaired Parents; Impaired Parents Offspring; Impaired Parents Offsprings; Parents Offspring, Impaired; Parents Offsprings, Impaired; Impaired Parents' Children; Children, Impaired Parents'; Children of Impaired Parents;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.106;

History Note: 91

Technical Notes: coord IM with parental dis (IM with no qualif); restrict to impaired parents: for child with impaired siblings; index CHILD (IM) + disease of sibling (IM) + SIBLINGS (IM); interpret "child" as "offspring" & check appropriate age check tags