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C P Baldwin

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Child and family factors that ameliorate risk between 4 and 13 years of age.

Protective processes in at-risk children between 4 and 13 years of age were examined in a longitudinal study. A multiple risk index was used at 4 years to identify 50 high-risk children and 102 who were at low risk. Cognitive and social-emotional status were measured at each time point. The following indicators of protective processes were related to positive change in cognitive and/or social-emotional function in the high-risk children between 4 and 13 years: mother-child interaction; child perceived competence, locus of control, life events, and social support; and maternal parenting values, social support, depression, and expressed emotion. Many of these factors were also related to improvement in the low-risk children. Some variables showed an interaction effect, where impact was substantially higher in the high-risk group compared with the low-risk group. The utility of multiple risk constructs and process oriented approaches to protective factors are discussed.

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Family free-play interaction: the role of the patient in the family interaction.

We have discussed the salient features of the family interaction in the free-play situation: the high rate of interaction with the child and general predominance of parental initiations in the parent-child interaction, the high correlation among all dyads on warmth. This led to the selection of three variables for study: rate of patient-child interaction, proportion of parental initiations to the child, and family warmth. There are major age changes: rate and proportion both decline with age. The patient's rate of interaction with the child and his proportion of interaction is lower than the spouse's rate. This holds for the 4- and 10-year-olds separately. We have tried to account for its reversal in the 7-year-old sample. Nonpsychotic patients have a higher rate of interaction, higher proportion of interactions, and higher family warmth than psychotics. Affectivity shows no relationship to these variables. Patients with a low global assessment score have lower rates, lower proportion, and less warmth than patients with a higher score. Patients who have been recently hospitalized have a lower rate of interactions with their sons than those who have been hospitalized longer.

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