The Pathway to Making Change: How Parents Promote Health for Their Overweight or Obese Child

33 mother-child dyads with an obese child (aged 9 to 12 years) and a similar control group were studied. The power interaction was used as an indicator of the style of the relationship between mother and child. To analyse the interactions the model of Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson was used because it considers three different possible situations of complementarity, symmetry, and parallelism. A revised version of the Scoresby Relationship Style Inventory was given. Analysis showed that dyads with obese children differ in some ways from the control dyads. These differences include the mother's dominant position in the relationship and the tendency of the obese child to avoid conflict and symmetry and to adopt a ‘one-down’ complementary position. We conclude it is important to improve the study of childhood obesity from a systemic perspective and to extend this analysis to other aspects of the complex familial picture to prevent overweight or to maintain it within reasonable limits thereby avoiding more serious complications.

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Thin mother, obese child? A review of early risk factors for obesity in offspring

Current Opinion in Psychiatry ◽

10.1097/yco.0000000000000268 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 309-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pantea Tabibzadeh ◽

Ricarda Mewes

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Obese Child ◽

Early Risk ◽

Early Risk Factors

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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in a Japanese obese child

Postgraduate Medical Journal ◽

10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138951 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. postgradmedj-2020-138951

Author(s):

Toshihiko Kakiuchi ◽

Yurie Sakata

Keyword(s):

Obese Child ◽

Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

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5210 Pediatric Obesity Clinical Decision Support Chart

10.1542/9781581108941 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Health Care Professionals ◽

Obese Child ◽

Clinical Decision ◽

Child Health Care ◽

Treatment Interventions ◽

Management Guidelines ◽

Practical Support ◽

Flip Chart ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Prevention Protocol

This convenient flip chart provides child health care professionals practical support and guidance to help improve care and outcomes for overweight youth. Bring your practice the latest ready-to-use tools including *Step-by-step prevention, assessment, and treatment interventions for the overweight and obese child developed by the CDC *15-minute obesity prevention protocol *Hypertension evaluation and management guidelines *Growth charts spanning birth to 20 years of age, including body mass index-for-age percentiles *Blood pressure levels for boys and girls *Coding information for obesity-related health services

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Motivating the Obese Child to Move

Southern Medical Journal ◽

10.1097/00007611-199906000-00006 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 92 (6) ◽

pp. 577-584 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

MELINDA S. SOTHERN ◽

SANDRA HUNTER ◽

ROBERT M. SUSKIND ◽

RAYNORDA BROWN ◽

JOHN N. UDALL ◽

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Keyword(s):

Obese Child

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Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections

Precarity and Ageing ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447340850.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-66

Author(s):

Stephen Katz

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Human Development ◽

Older Adult ◽

Social Problems ◽

Obese Child ◽

Cognitively Impaired ◽

Historical Texts ◽

Popular Images ◽

The Life Course ◽

Ageing Populations

This chapter explores the critical intersections between ageing, human development, and the life course as precarious forms of life. The first part reviews the literature on global precarity and the endangerment of liveability in relation to ageing populations, with a focus on neoliberal strategies that naturalise and individualise risky life-course trajectories and health crises. The second part examines selected figures of the obese child, unstable adolescent, despairing mid-lifer, and cognitively impaired older adult as examples of crisis-laden personifications of social problems. Data are drawn from historical texts, popular images and professional knowledges. Conclusions revisit the work of Butler and Foucault to raise questions about current models of resilience and the possibilities of resistance and living differently.

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