Changes In Parents Research Articles

A Longitudinal Perspective on Bereaved Parent's Changes in Life Experience after the 2014 Sewol Ferry Sinking.

This study compared reports of parental life experiences from bereaved parents at two and five years after the death of their adolescent children due to the sinking of the Sewol Ferry in South Korea. Twelve bereaved parents (eight mothers and four fathers from eight families) were interviewed regarding the changes and stabilities they experienced over time at two time points of data collection. Twenty-eight in-depth interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Outcomes of parental bereavement and changes in life over time may be classified into four main categories: (a) personal changes, (b) changes in perspectives, (c) changes in family relationship, and (d) changes in social relationship and work attitude. This study includes a detailed examination of the phenomenon among the bereaved parents. Discussions and implications are provided based on the results.

Vaccination and the Effect on Custody When One Parent Opts Out

When it comes to personal and religious beliefs involving their children, parents are presumed to act in the best interests of their children. When a couple separates and requests the court’s intervention in determining the best interest of the child, virtually every decision comes under scrutiny. Vaccination can become a highly contested issue in custody cases. Whether former agreements to forego vaccinations will be upheld depends on the reasons behind the decision and the parent's change of heart. Courts examine the reasons behind a parent’s refusal to vaccinate and determine the credibility of a parent’s change of heart when the decision was made jointly and based on religious beliefs. Ultimately, courts must balance the freedom of religion with the right of parents to direct the upbringing of their child as they see fit and the best interest of the child. This article examines how the courts address a dispute over vaccination, the history of vaccination, its effects on the decline in disease, vaccine safety, the risks associated with vaccination, objections to vaccination, and the effect on custody in family court when one parent opts out.

Multimodal Psychoanalytically Informed Aid Work with Children Traumatized by the Chechen War

As demonstrated in three cases, this paper illustrates how psychoanalytically informed multimodal care was an essential element of effective medical treatment of children traumatized by the Chechen war. Multimodal psychoanalytically informed aid work involves holding a variety of psychoanalytic viewpoints, including but not restricted to those represented by the Freudian, Interpersonal, and Relational orientations; its purpose is to allow for greater clarity in conceptualizing the traumatized child's response to war in order to provide the necessary care during the therapeutic process. Among the issues addressed are how traumatic memory can initially be expressed nonverbally, and therefore the use of embodied life-metaphors and witnessing are central to the survivors' ability to remember and symbolize. In addition, the significance of cultural awareness and sensitivity are explored as key components to the children's care. In the first case, the author illustrates how a traumatic life-metaphor can be resolved at an embodied, rather than an exclusively verbal, level. In the second case, cultural tradition and relativism have a significant impact on addressing medical and quality of life issues for the child. The third case illustrates how the analyst functions as recognizing witness to a parent's trauma; the "being with" of the relationship becomes the agent of the parent's change.

High 5 for Kids: The impact of a home visiting program on fruit and vegetable intake of parents and their preschool children

Objective The High 5 for Preschool Kids ( H5-KIDS) program tested the effectiveness of a home based intervention to teach parents how to ensure a positive fruit–vegetable (FV) environment for their preschool child, and to examine whether changes in parent behavior were associated with improvements in child intake. Methods A group randomized nested cohort design was conducted (2001 to 2006) in rural, southeast Missouri with 1306 parents and their children participating in Parents As Teachers, a national parent education program. Results When compared to control parents, H5-KIDS parents reported an increase in FV servings (MN = 0.20, p = 0.05), knowledge and availability of FV within the home ( p = 0.01), and decreased their use of noncoercive feeding practices ( p = 0.02). Among preschoolers, FV servings increased in normal weight (MN = 0.35, p = 0.02) but not overweight children (MN = − 0.10, p = 0.48), relative to controls. The parent's change in FV servings was a significant predictor of child's change in FV in the H5-KIDS group ( p = 0.001). Conclusion H5-KIDS suggests the need for, and promise of, early home intervention for childhood obesity prevention. It demonstrates the importance of participatory approaches in developing externally valid interventions, with the potential for dissemination across national parent education programs as a means for improving the intake of parents and young children.

A RESEARCH REPORT:Measuring Academic QualityAn Interim Report

How to identify and measure educational quality has emerged as one of the central issues in the academy, and pervades the broader spectrum of American education as well. In a fresh effort to measure institutional quality, the Higher Education Research Institute, in association with the Council on Learning, Change's parent foundation, recently launched a pioneering study to identify broad quality indicators, particularly at the undergraduate level. (See Change, April 1979, page 23.) In this interim report, the researchers look at peer groups and indices of selectivity as one of several facets of measuring quality education. Early next year, Change will release the complete results of this study, including correlates of college quality and the findings of a pilot study of reputational ratings of undergraduate departments.