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Out of the Funhouse Mirrors: Steps Toward Understanding the Role of Parenting in Maladaptive Child Development

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 50; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jaac.2011.06.017

1527-5418

Benjamin B. Lahey,

Child Welfare and Adoption

Every major theory of the origins of mental health problems, from Sigmund Freud to Gerald Patterson, posits a key causal role for maladaptive parenting. We are, in the shared view of the mental health field, the person created by our parents—but, are we really? This is one of the most important, complicated, and vexing questions facing the mental health sciences. Trying to answer it has proved to be at least as confounding and confusing as navigating carnival funhouse mirrors. Disentangling Child and Family Influences on Maternal Expressed Emotion Toward Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryVol. 50Issue 10PreviewWe used multi-level modelling of sibling-pair data to disentangle the influence of proband-specific and more general family influences on maternal expressed emotion (MEE) toward children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Full-Text PDF