Self-Reported Anxiety Ratings in Children With and Without Food Allergies and Teacher Knowledge of Food Allergies.

Background: Researchers have found a relationship between having food allergies and anxiety in children. Anxiety may relate to others' lack of food allergy knowledge. This study investigated the relationship between having a food allergy and self-reported anxiety among children.

A comparative analysis of family adaptability and cohesion ratings among traumatized urban youth.

Objective: Given the need to identify psychological risk factors among traumatized youth, this study examined the family functioning of traumatized youth with or without PTSD and a nonclinical sample.

Method: The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales, second edition (FACES II; Olson, Portner, & Bell, 1982), scores of youth with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; n = 29) were compared with the scores of trauma-exposed youth without PTSD (n = 48) and a nontraumatized comparison group (n = 44). Child diagnostic interviews determined that all participants were free of major comorbid disorders.

The parent ratings of traumatized children with or without PTSD.

Two clinical and 2 structured clinical interviews were used to identify children with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatized children without PTSD, and nontraumatized controls. Parents evaluated child conduct by marking the Conners' Parent Rating Scale-48 (CPRS-48; Conners, 1989). Data analysis indicated that the CPRS-48 Total scores and the Anxiety and Psychosomatic subscales scores of the PTSD group significantly exceeded the scores of the comparison groups.

The parent-rated social skills of a sample of New York City preschool children 8-10 months after September 11, 2001.

This study compared the Social Skills Rating System-Preschool Parent Version ratings of two groups of New York City preschool children 8-10 months after September 11, 2001. One group of children was within 1 mile (1.61 km) of the World Trade Center (WTC) during the attack and exposed to one or more traumatic events.

Attachment and autism: parental attachment representations and relational behaviors in the parent-child dyad.

While attachment research has demonstrated that parents' internal working models of attachment relationships tend to be transmitted to their children, affecting children's developmental trajectories, this study specifically examines associations between adult attachment status and observable parent, child, and dyadic behaviors among children with autism and associated neurodevelopmental disorders of relating and communicating. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was employed to derive parental working models of attachment relationships. The Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) was used to determine the quality of relational and functional behaviors in parents and their children.