The Impact of Primary Relationships and Early Experiences in Toddlerhood: 12 to 18 Months

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-132
Author(s):  
Ann M. Mastergeorge ◽  
Katherine W. Paschall
Keyword(s):  
Early Experiences ◽  
Primary Relationships ◽  
The Impact

The Loss of the Self in Memory: Self-Referential Memory, Childhood Relational Trauma, and Dissociation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Chui-De Chiu ◽  
Marieke S. Tollenaar ◽  
Cheng-Ta Yang ◽  
Bernet M. Elzinga ◽  
Tian-Yang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
The Self ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Mental Function ◽  
Moderate Correlation ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
The Impact

The segregated representations pertinent to childhood relational trauma have long been posited as a key pathogenic mechanism for dissociation. Yet, the weak to moderate correlation of child maltreatment with dissociation proneness leads to the question about which factors may moderate the impact of adverse childhood interpersonal experiences and work synergistically in the genesis of dissociation. We hypothesized that self-referential memory may play a role and that low accessibility to self-referenced representations may obstruct the ongoing synthesis of self representations, leaving these unassimilated early experiences disintegrated and inimical to mental function in response to a stressful situation. This hypothesis was examined by two experiments in college students. The first experiment showed the association between dissociation proneness and low accessibility to self-referenced representations. The second demonstrated that low accessibility to self-referenced representations moderated the link between childhood relational trauma and dissociation proneness. Weakened self-referential memory matters in the link between trauma and dissociation.

Early Experiences With Family Involvement

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
Jade Burris
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate Practices ◽  
Early Childhood Programs ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Appropriate Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Successes And Challenges

This chapter reviews the impact early experiences with family involvement have on young children and their families, early childhood programs, and teachers. The author discusses the growing demand for early childhood services, characterized by a growing and changing society. There is discussion of developmentally appropriate practices and the ethical conduct of early childhood teachers as they navigate issues of social justice related to family involvement and engagement. The author presents findings from a recent pilot study to illustrate the successes and challenges experienced by eight diverse early childhood programs as they reflected on their family involvement practices. The author also emphasizes the importance of promoting equity and celebrating diversity through family involvement practices including examples, successes, and challenges that may arise.

“Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits”: Evolution, Eschatology, and the Anticommunist Politics of George McCready Price

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-722
Author(s):  
Carl R. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Seventh Day Adventist ◽  
Creation Science ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
New Christian Right ◽  
The Impact

George McCready Price (1870–1963) is best known as the Canadian-born Seventh-day Adventist amateur geologist who pioneered the idea of a young earth in the early twentieth century. Price laid the foundation for modern “creation science,” which took off decades later, with the publication of Henry Morris and John Whitcomb Jr.'sThe Genesis Floodin 1961. Despite his extensive writings on the details of geology, however, Price admitted that his main objections to evolution were not scientific but “moral” and “philosophical”—the “fruits” of the “corrupt tree” of evolution. Historians have almost entirely neglected this aspect of Price's opus; yet, Price authored a series of works from 1902 to 1925 that, in increasingly alarming tones, blamed evolution for socialism and communism. This article analyzes these works by examining Price's Adventist background, his early experiences working and living in the United States, and the broader political context in which he wrote. It also assesses the impact of Price's political writings on subsequent generations of creationists and conservative evangelicals. Price should be seen as part of the long process by which a New Christian Right was forged from materials including creationism and anticommunism. He was not only a geologist but also a creationist politician.

Depressive psychopathology and adverse childhood experiences in eating disorders

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 377-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Speranza ◽  
Frederic Atger ◽  
Maurice Corcos ◽  
Gwenolé Loas ◽  
Olivier Guilbaud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Diagnostic Specificity ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Adverse Childhood ◽  
The Impact

AbstractPurposeThe aim of this paper was to investigate the diagnostic specificity of the self-critical and dependent depressive experiences in a clinical sample of eating disorder patients and to explore the impact of adverse childhood experiences on these dimensions of personality.MethodA sample of 94 anorexic and 61 bulimic patients meeting DSM-IV criteria and 236 matched controls were assessed with the Depressive Experience Questionnaire (DEQ), the abridged version of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the AMDP Life Events Inventory. Subjects presenting a major depression or a comorbid addictive disorder were excluded from the sample using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI).ResultsAnorexic and bulimic patients showed higher scores than controls on both self-criticism and dependency sub-scales of the DEQ. Bulimic patients scored significantly higher than anorexic patients on self-criticism and reported more adverse childhood experiences. Finally, negative life events correlated only with self-criticism in the whole sample.DiscussionDifferences in the DEQ Self-Criticism between anorexics and bulimics could not be accounted for by depression since bulimic patients did not show higher BDI levels compared to anorexic patients and depressive symptoms measured with the BDI were not found to be significant predictors of diagnostic grouping in a logistic multiple regression.ConclusionThis study supports the diagnostic specificity of the dependent and self-critical depressive dimensions in eating disorders and strengthens previous research on the role of early experiences in the development of these disorders.

The Impact of Early Loss History on Parenting of Bereaved Children: A Qualitative Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Porterfield ◽  
Albert Cain ◽  
Amy Saldinger
Keyword(s):  
Community Sample ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Parentally Bereaved ◽  
Bereaved Children ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Childhood Loss ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
The Impact

The current report is a qualitative exploration of the ways in which an adult's childhood experiences with death subsequently influence their parenting of their own parentally-bereaved children. Findings stem from semi-structured interviews with a community sample of 41 bereaved spouses, interviews that are part of a broader, longitudinal investigation of the determinants of the impact upon children of parent death. While some researchers have examined how childhood loss globally affects parenting, none has looked at the unique experience of the impact of such early experiences on parenting during bereavement. Moreover, in contrast to most studies of childhood loss which operate exclusively from an impairment-focused stance, this study also documents the long-term competency-building that may result from the experience of bereavement during childhood.

Weeping Mother

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarralynne Agee
Keyword(s):  
Early Experiences ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 9 explores the depression of the contributor’s mother, the poverty in which the family found itself for many years, and the impact of these early experiences on the contributor’s life and career.

Early Experiences With Family Involvement

2019 ◽  
pp. 505-527
Author(s):  
Jade Burris
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate Practices ◽  
Early Childhood Programs ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Appropriate Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Successes And Challenges

This chapter reviews the impact early experiences with family involvement have on young children and their families, early childhood programs, and teachers. The author discusses the growing demand for early childhood services, characterized by a growing and changing society. There is discussion of developmentally appropriate practices and the ethical conduct of early childhood teachers as they navigate issues of social justice related to family involvement and engagement. The author presents findings from a recent pilot study to illustrate the successes and challenges experienced by eight diverse early childhood programs as they reflected on their family involvement practices. The author also emphasizes the importance of promoting equity and celebrating diversity through family involvement practices including examples, successes, and challenges that may arise.

Views from the Inside, Part 1: Routes to Diagnosis — Families' Experience of Living with a Child with Arthritis

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 374-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Britton ◽  
Ann Moore
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Outpatient Appointments ◽  
The Impact

This is the first of a trilogy of articles that presents the experiences and perspectives of 46 families about what it is like to live with and care for a child with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). An independent professional recruited the children from a random sample of families who attended consecutive outpatient appointments at the juvenile arthritis clinic and who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Qualitative and quantitative data from self-completion questionnaires, transcripts from semi-structured interviews with family members in their homes, family-filmed video diaries, and diaries written by siblings and children with arthritis were analysed. These different types of data were gathered over 18 months in order to collect information about the fluctuating nature of this disease and the impact of this changeability on family members. Part 1 concentrates on a brief presentation of relevant literature, presents a simplified map of the findings and introduces the families' early experiences of seeking and coping with the diagnosis of JIA. The article explores the myth that arthritis only affects elderly and infirm people, explains the mirage effect and discusses the significance of different routes to diagnosis. The majority of the families felt that these early events had a significant, sometimes considerable, impact upon how they coped later, including how they related subsequently to health care professionals and engaged with continuing prescribed health care programmes. The findings report the families' experiences as recipients of health care by many different professionals and relate to their recollection and interpretation of events. Research into the professionals' perspectives would be illuminating but did not fall within the scope of the present study. The experiences of families of children with arthritis are shared by families of children with other chronic conditions and by other carers and service users.

scholarly journals Hashtag NZPol: New Zealand Women Twitter Users and Political Participation Construction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Bickerton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Primary Relationships ◽  
Online Politics ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Impact

<p>This dissertation addresses the research question of “How do women Twitter users in New Zealand construct political participation?” On the issue of the potential of the online spaces as political spaces, historical research has tended to be technologically deterministic, and dichotomous. Further, contemporary quantitative research into the impact of online politics on offline political participation has identified a gap: that the qualitative particularities of political participation online have not been sufficiently researched to provide a more nuanced and complete understanding. In a New Zealand context, what little empirical research there has been on online politics has taken a top-down approach. With a focus on political parties, political figures, and campaigning, there has been almost no research into bottom-up citizen-focused online politics, nor political participation construction more widely in New Zealand. It is in these gaps that this research is positioned.  Methodologically, 25 unstructured interviews were conducted using prompt-style questions, either in person or via video-call software, with women based in New Zealand who were active Twitter users. Selective snowball sampling was used as a recruitment strategy, providing a range of participants from different ethnic backgrounds, locations around New Zealand, and levels of political involvement. Interviews were transcribed and then thematically coded from themes based both from the literature and emergent from the interviews themselves. A theoretical framework of narrative analysis was used during this analysis to look for the understandings and social meanings that the participants were invoking in their constructions.  The findings were grouped largely into four areas: 1) a propensity towards prioritising primary relationships in political behaviour rooted in experience, the everyday, the personal, and understandings of social location and relationality; 2) an issue-based approach to being political and how discussion, listening, reading, and engagement are foregrounded over traditional political forms, including forefronting an empathetic imperative; 3) specifically online political behaviour that prioritised impact (but indirect rather than direct), complicated simplistic ‘echo chamber’ conceptions of online groupings and different social media platforms, as well as how negativity and diversity was managed; and 4) understandings of what might be a particularly ‘New Zealand’ articulation of political participation that centred a lack of size, being conflict-averse, and a less party-political culture negotiating between global and local political narratives, concluding with an introduction of whakawhanaungatanga.  Chapter 9 analyses the critical findings of this thesis: the centrality of primary relationships and relationality, indirect impact, how an issue-based approach to politics is negotiated, and the emphasis on personal experience and emotion. Further, it examines the priority of discursive forms of political participation over traditional forms, and the location of such in the everyday, both in topic and embedding. This is all analysed using Sociology of Space, looking to constructions of political space, place, and boundaries. The conclusion summarises these contributions, suggesting that New Zealand policy around online politics requires understanding of how New Zealanders conceptualise bottom-up political participation.</p>

scholarly journals Hashtag NZPol: New Zealand Women Twitter Users and Political Participation Construction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Bickerton
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Primary Relationships ◽  
Online Politics ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
The Impact

<p>This dissertation addresses the research question of “How do women Twitter users in New Zealand construct political participation?” On the issue of the potential of the online spaces as political spaces, historical research has tended to be technologically deterministic, and dichotomous. Further, contemporary quantitative research into the impact of online politics on offline political participation has identified a gap: that the qualitative particularities of political participation online have not been sufficiently researched to provide a more nuanced and complete understanding. In a New Zealand context, what little empirical research there has been on online politics has taken a top-down approach. With a focus on political parties, political figures, and campaigning, there has been almost no research into bottom-up citizen-focused online politics, nor political participation construction more widely in New Zealand. It is in these gaps that this research is positioned.  Methodologically, 25 unstructured interviews were conducted using prompt-style questions, either in person or via video-call software, with women based in New Zealand who were active Twitter users. Selective snowball sampling was used as a recruitment strategy, providing a range of participants from different ethnic backgrounds, locations around New Zealand, and levels of political involvement. Interviews were transcribed and then thematically coded from themes based both from the literature and emergent from the interviews themselves. A theoretical framework of narrative analysis was used during this analysis to look for the understandings and social meanings that the participants were invoking in their constructions.  The findings were grouped largely into four areas: 1) a propensity towards prioritising primary relationships in political behaviour rooted in experience, the everyday, the personal, and understandings of social location and relationality; 2) an issue-based approach to being political and how discussion, listening, reading, and engagement are foregrounded over traditional political forms, including forefronting an empathetic imperative; 3) specifically online political behaviour that prioritised impact (but indirect rather than direct), complicated simplistic ‘echo chamber’ conceptions of online groupings and different social media platforms, as well as how negativity and diversity was managed; and 4) understandings of what might be a particularly ‘New Zealand’ articulation of political participation that centred a lack of size, being conflict-averse, and a less party-political culture negotiating between global and local political narratives, concluding with an introduction of whakawhanaungatanga.  Chapter 9 analyses the critical findings of this thesis: the centrality of primary relationships and relationality, indirect impact, how an issue-based approach to politics is negotiated, and the emphasis on personal experience and emotion. Further, it examines the priority of discursive forms of political participation over traditional forms, and the location of such in the everyday, both in topic and embedding. This is all analysed using Sociology of Space, looking to constructions of political space, place, and boundaries. The conclusion summarises these contributions, suggesting that New Zealand policy around online politics requires understanding of how New Zealanders conceptualise bottom-up political participation.</p>

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