Predictors of Stability/Change in Observed Parenting Patterns Across Early Childhood: A Latent Transition Approach.

Parenting has long been a topic of research based on its importance for family and child outcomes. Recent methodological advances in person-centered approaches suggest that our understanding of parenting could be further advanced by examining parenting typologies across various parenting behaviors longitudinally. Accordingly, the current study aims to examine latent transitions in parenting practice patterns across four annual assessments during early childhood and examine whether individual- and family-level factors at baseline discriminate parenting transition patterns.

Development of temperament types from infancy to adolescence: Genetic and environmental influences with an economically and racially/ethnically diverse sample.

Kagan theorized biologically based temperament types that are present in infancy, stable across development, and essential for understanding individual differences. Despite evidence, temperament research remains focused on a few prominent dimensions of temperament, without adequately addressing covariance among dimensions and temperament types. Using longitudinal twin data, we took a person-centered statistical approach to identify temperament types and examined continuity and change across five developmental periods ( = 602; = 522; = 390; = 718; Nearly adolescence = 700).

Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools ADAPT4U study.

The military family stress (MFS) model conceptualizes that wartime deployments and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are associated with couple, parenting, and child adjustment difficulties. The aim of this study was to replicate and extend the military family stress model by examining the associations among deployment length, PTSD symptoms, marital functioning, parenting practices, and child adjustment in a replication sample of both National Guard and Reserve (NG/R) as well as active-duty service member families. The MFS model is extended to test whether these relationships vary between mothers and fathers.

A Conversion Crosswalk for the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index: Translating DSM-IV to DSM-5.

The use of patient-reported measures in assessing mental health symptoms is common in both the research and clinical fields. With regard to assessing posttraumatic stress symptoms, there are specific versions of measures designed for child and adolescent populations in accordance with the fourth and fifth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV and DSM-5, respectively). Different clinical thresholds, numbers of items, and score ranges may present obstacles for clinicians and researchers attempting to compare self-report ratings across different versions of a measure.

New Directions in Pediatric Palliative Care Education for Preclinical Medical and Nursing Students.

Objectives: Since insufficient education has partially contributed to challenges in providing pediatric palliative care (PPC), a cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and educational needs of preclinical medical and nursing students in Hong Kong.

Methods: Pretested self-administered 44-item questionnaires with written informed consent were distributed to 241 medical and nursing students at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, between February and March 2019. This questionnaire covered eleven categories related to participants' knowledge of and attitudes towards PPC.