This focuses on enabling patients to work through, or psychologically process, the complex mixture of feelings that inevitably arise from sexual abuse. The therapist needs to help patients to foster a more positive sense of self, while creating an environment in which the patient feels safe enough...
(very true) the extent to which they used the strategy described in the given scenario (e.g., I kept track of the direction [north, south, east, or west] in which I was going; clearly visible signs pointing the way to different sections of the building or complex were important to ...
What our research with these longitudinal studies has shown, absolutely yes and absolutely no. [chuckle] So like many things with human beings, it’s quite difficult to have a simple answer. Life is just too complex, and that’s one of the things that Jay really draws out in the book. ...
When we refer to street children in this chapter we mean those who come from the developing world and homeless youth who come from the developed world. When we speak of both, we call them “children in street situations.” While children in the streets are often thought of as a huge ...
I REALLY could use a friend, someone who’ll say, “This totally sucks!” along with me. I know people don’t know what to say to someone like me, but I still want them to say something – the silence is deafening. This road I’m on islonely. ...
It remains to be tested whether child gender differences in the link between gender similarity and appearance might become more pronounced in older children, when children’s view of themselves in terms of gender becomes more complex and multidimensional (Halim & Ruble, 2010). Gender Differences in...
Other investigators have also shown that lifetime traumatic stressors and ACEs uniquely predict concurrent PTSD, complex PTSD, and the dissociative subtype of PTSD symptoms, whereas recent adult non-traumatic stressors do not [35]. Complex PTSD as defined by ICD-11 comprises all of the characteris...
“at least one good friend”) and internal and external motivation (e.g., beliefs that gave comfort, enjoyment of school, a teacher who cared). A cumulative score is generated ranging from 0 to 10. Higher number of questions answered with “yes” indicates higher levels of positive ...
Just as the challenge of defining parent partnership is complex, so too is the process of identifying the factors affecting the quality of the relationship (Cottle & Alexander, 2013). There are a number of barriers that can impede the development of positive relationships between early years pract...
Although this way all of the participants were able to master the tasks, it is not clear whether goal focus is the same for simple and complex goals and whether these tasks similarly reflect goal focus as previous measures. One observation that speaks against this lack of validity were the ...