What’s in This Issue 1. Don’t miss the first No Hit Zone conference! 2. The 2nd #HitNoMore Social Media Contest winners announced 3. FEATURE: Ongoing work to reduce CP in Sierra Leone – Meet Anty Tenneh 4.
What’s in This Issue 1. Don’t miss the first No Hit Zone conference! 2. The 2nd #HitNoMore Social Media Contest winners announced 3. FEATURE: Ongoing work to reduce CP in Sierra Leone – Meet Anty Tenneh 4. |
first No Hit Zone Conference WHEN: March 2-3, 2022 WHERE: University of Texas at Austin, Texas No Hit Zones are quickly emerging as an effective, low-cost, and easy-to-implement strategy for the prevention of child abuse. |
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"A recent narrative review has confirmed that the physical punishment of children (commonly known as 'spanking') is not effective in preventing child behavior issues, nor is it effective in promoting positive outcomes. |
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"The year 2020 was like no other for the world’s children, who everywhere faced isolation from school, friends, services and support. |
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"The findings are in line with similar research conducted on children who had experienced severe violence, suggesting that “while we might not conceptualize corporal punishment to be a form of violence, in terms of how a child’s brain responds,... read more |
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In September of 2020, the Global Initiative's work was taken forward by the End Violence Partnership. API has long joined in fighting for a world where all children are protected from corporal punishment. |
"Telling a teen boy not to make a choice that he deems fun or a chance to succeed will seldom change the outcome as he is seeking autonomy and, like most teens, resists being told what to do or not do." ~Maggie Dent |
While maternal warmth was predictive of better behavior regulation in the child overall, maternal responsiveness to child distress was specifically related to the child’s internalization of rules of conduct. |
Permissive parenting intensified boys’ behavioral problems, and harsh discipline was related to child behavioral problems regardless of gender, but parent education lessened child behavioral problems, particularly for girls. |
Harsh discipline contributed to child behavior problems. |
Harsh discipline strategies were predictive of poor emotional adjustment in emerging adults, while positive discipline predicted healthy adjustment. |
Authoritative parenting—high on positive parenting and monitoring but low on inconsistent discipline—had the best long-term outcomes of all parenting styles. |
Insecurely attached children showed more resentful opposition toward their mothers than did those with secure attachments. |
While high-quality child care was predictive of greater pre-academic skills, children who spent more time in non-parental child care, especially in center-type care, tended to have more behavior problems that continued into adolescence. |
Child emotional eating is correlated with minimizing and non-reasoning, punitive parental responses, which are in line with authoritarian and permissive parenting styles but not authoritative styles. |