The Effects of Parenting Styles on Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: A Mexican Preadolescents Study.

Parental practices such as inconsistent discipline, psychological control, and imposition have been linked to the development of internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in preadolescents. This study aimed to identify the association these practices had on Mexican preadolescent problem behaviors through Structural Equation Modeling. The sample consisted of 306 elementary students from three public schools in Mexico City (age M = 10, SD = 0.

Parental Practices and Maternal Warmth as Protective Factors for Problem Behaviors in Mexican Preadolescents.

Epidemiological estimates indicate that approximately 12% of children and adolescents in Mexico are in clinical ranges for psychological disorders. Low-income families in need of psychological support generally encounter understaffed and sometimes inefficient public health services and thus, families frequently constitute the primary source of support for individuals affected by mental health disorders. Empirical studies in the Mexican context have demonstrated that positive parental practices are associated with positive developmental outcomes and low levels of problem behaviors for both children and adolescents.

[The role of social networks in exclusive breastfeeding].

Objective: The purpose of the study was to explore the network that the social actors form around the mother with a neonate and the roles they play, either as support or as an obstacle of exclusive breast-feeding.

Material And Methods: We applied a social network survey in two stages: in the first one, we asked mothers with babies under six months of age who had helped them breast-feed their babies and who had had a bearing on not letting them do it. Later, we asked other mothers who had told them to give formula, water, tea or solid food to the babies.

Selection of psychotherapeutic treatment for adjustment disorder with depressive mood due to acute myocardial infarction.

Background: There is a lack of specific emotional treatment in patients with adjustment disorder (AD) with depressed mood (DSM-IV-TR: 309.0) as a consequence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (ICD 10: 410.0-9), which renders treatment even more difficult.