{"title":"The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children","authors":"Jessica A. Byrne, Laura H. Clark","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09771-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09771-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background Parental anxiety and over-involved parenting behaviour are consistently associated with an increase in child anxiety symptoms. Primary school aged children also often develop a strong and influential relationship with their class teacher and how educators respond to anxiety therefore warrants investigation. Preliminary research has shown that educators use anxiety-promoting techniques, such as avoidance. However, there has been little empirical investigation of the factors that influence the management of anxious children by primary school educators in the classroom setting. Objective This study investigated the relationship between the anxiety literacy of primary school educators, anxiety symptoms experienced by primary school educators and the management of anxious children by primary school educators. Methods A total of 73 primary school educators in the United Kingdom completed an online survey. The survey measured participant anxiety and anxiety knowledge, as well as utilising vignettes of hypothetical scenarios to measure the use of anxiety-promoting and autonomy-promoting responses. Results Educator anxiety literacy predicted a reduced likelihood of using anxiety-promoting responses but did not predict increased use of autonomy-promoting responses. Educators’ anxiety was not found to predict anxiety-promoting or autonomy-promoting responses when managing anxious children. Conclusions The findings suggest that promoting anxiety literacy in primary educators may reduce the frequency with which educators use anxiety promoting responses with anxious students. The findings highlight the importance of further clarifying the quality and forms of anxiety mental health knowledge and training which educators receive. This type of data may be useful in developing ways to equip educators with the skills to respond and manage anxiety in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136278088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chimereodo Okoroji, Rachel Mack Kolsky, Ariel A. Williamson, Jennifer A. Mautone
{"title":"Integrated Behavioral Health in Pediatric Primary Care: Rates of Consultation Requests and Treatment Duration","authors":"Chimereodo Okoroji, Rachel Mack Kolsky, Ariel A. Williamson, Jennifer A. Mautone","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09769-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09769-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tíscar Rodríguez-Jiménez, Verónica Vidal-Arenas, Raquel Falcó, Beatriz Moreno-Amador, Juan C Marzo, José A Piqueras
{"title":"Assessing Emotional Distress in Adolescents: Psychometrics of the Spanish Version of the Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary.","authors":"Tíscar Rodríguez-Jiménez, Verónica Vidal-Arenas, Raquel Falcó, Beatriz Moreno-Amador, Juan C Marzo, José A Piqueras","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09758-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10566-023-09758-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Social Emotional Distress Scale-Secondary (SEDS-S) is a short measure designed for comprehensive school-based mental health screening, particularly for using very brief self-reported measures of well-being and distress. Whereas prior studies have shown validity and reliability evidence for the English version, there is a lack of literature about its psychometric properties for Spanish-speaking youths.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine the psychometric properties of the SEDS-S in a large sample of Spanish adolescents, providing evidence of its reliability, structure, convergent and discriminant validity, longitudinal and gender measurement invariance, and normative data.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 5550 adolescents aged 12-18 years old. Test-retest reliability was examined using Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega coefficients, and evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was measured using Pearson's correlation. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine structure validity, while multigroup and longitudinal measurement invariance analysis was conducted for longitudinal and gender latent structure stability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The CFA supported a unidimensional latent structure, which was also observed to be invariant between gender groups and over time. The scale showed evidence of reliability, with coefficients above .85. In addition, the SEDS-S score was positively related to measures assessing distress and negatively related to measures assessing well-being, thereby providing convergent/discriminant validity of the total scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study provides the first evidence of the reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the SEDS-S for assessing emotional distress among adolescents, cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Furthermore, findings indicated that SEDS-S could be a suitable assessment tool for screening and program evaluation purposes at different contexts beyond the school setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10239276/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10092410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Child & Youth Care ForumPub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1007/s10566-022-09696-8
Jocelyn I Meza, Christopher Bondoc, Nivedita Keshav, John Bosco, Elizabeth Barnert
{"title":"Exploring the Link Between Neighborhood Violence and Health Among African-American and Latinx Youth Returning Home After Incarceration.","authors":"Jocelyn I Meza, Christopher Bondoc, Nivedita Keshav, John Bosco, Elizabeth Barnert","doi":"10.1007/s10566-022-09696-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10566-022-09696-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>African-American and Latinx youth are disproportionately exposed to neighborhood violence and are overrepresented in the U.S. juvenile justice system. Perceived neighborhood violence is associated with negative health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We examined associations between African-American and Latinx youths' perceived neighborhood violence and health during reentry after juvenile incarceration.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Youth (n=50) returning home after incarceration completed health questionnaires at one-month post-incarceration. A subset of participants (n=25 youth) also participated in one-on-one, semi-structured longitudinal interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-eight (56%) participants reported neighborhood violence in quantitative surveys. Quantitative analyses revealed that perceived neighborhood violence was positively associated with reported asthma diagnosis, doctor recommendations for medical follow-up, perceived stress, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Perceived neighborhood violence was negatively correlated with perceived family support. Stress ratings were associated with ACE total scores, moderate to severe depression symptoms, and family support. Moderate-to-severe depression symptoms were significantly correlated with lower ratings of family support. Qualitative interviews supplemented our quantitative findings and showed that responses to perceived neighborhood violence were linked to specific health-related behaviors, such as substance use or avoidance of gang activity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, our quantitative and qualitative results indicate that perceived neighborhood violence is associated with many negative psychosocial factors that could impact overall health and wellbeing of youth undergoing reentry. Treatment implications include the development and testing of family-centered interventions that help improve the transition back into the community for youth undergoing reentry and especially, their access to evidence-based treatment, including leveraging family telehealth substance use interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"41 1","pages":"533-558"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12768516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77001686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ritu Sampige, L. Frankel, Lida Ehteshami, Katherine Zopatti
{"title":"The Relationship Between Parent Anxiety Symptomatology and Feeding Behaviors: A Systematic Review","authors":"Ritu Sampige, L. Frankel, Lida Ehteshami, Katherine Zopatti","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09752-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09752-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"43 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75107442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Santos, Maria do Rosário Pinheiro, Daniel Rijo
{"title":"The Effects of the Compassionate Mind Training for Caregivers on Professional Quality of Life and Mental Health: Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Trial in Residential Youth Care Settings.","authors":"Laura Santos, Maria do Rosário Pinheiro, Daniel Rijo","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09749-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10566-023-09749-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychological distress is highly noticeable among caregivers working in residential youth care (RYC). Maintaining and enhancing caregivers' professional mental health and quality of life is crucial to achieve effective outcomes in RYC. Nevertheless, trainings to protect caregivers' mental health are scarce. Considering the buffering effect over negative psychological outcomes, compassion training could be beneficial in RYC.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study is part of a Cluster Randomized Trial examining the effects of the Compassionate Mind Training for Caregivers (CMT-Care Homes), looking at professional quality of life and mental health of caregivers working in RYC.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample was composed of 127 professional caregivers from 12 Portuguese residential care homes (RCH). RCHs were randomly allocated at experimental (N = 6) and control group (N = 6). Participants were assessed at baseline, post-treatment, and 3 and 6-month follow-ups, answering to the Professional Quality of Life Scale and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. Program effects were tested using a two-factor mixed MANCOVA, with self-critical attitude and education degree as covariates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>MANCOVA showed a significant Time × Group interaction effects (F = 1.890, <i>p</i> = .014; <math><msubsup><mi>η</mi><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><mn>2</mn></msubsup></math> = .050), with CMT-Care Homes participants presenting lower scores on burnout, anxiety, and depression at 3 and 6-months follow-ups, when compared with controls. Participants that received CMT-Care Homes considered the program useful to deal with pandemic threats and with youth during lockdowns.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study shows the benefits of the CMT-Care Homes in helping professional caregivers reducing burnout, anxiety and depression, and dealing with pandemic challenges in RYC.<i>Trial registration</i>: This cluster randomized trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (TRN: NCT04512092) on 6th August 2020.</p>","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10154747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10092415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Youn Kyoung Kim, Eusebius Small, Rachel D Pounders, Salimata Lala Fall, Wendy L Wilson
{"title":"Ecological Factors of Telemental Healthcare Utilization Among Adolescents with Increased Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Effect of Gender.","authors":"Youn Kyoung Kim, Eusebius Small, Rachel D Pounders, Salimata Lala Fall, Wendy L Wilson","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09751-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10566-023-09751-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescent substance use is often associated with concurrent mental health problems (e.g., depression, suicide attempts, parental emotional and physical abuse, not feeling close to people at school, and lower virtual connectedness) at multiple ecological levels.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined whether such risk factors among adolescents were associated with the use of telemental healthcare (TMHC) and whether gender moderated these associations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were drawn from the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from January to June 2021. A hierarchical multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted using a national sample of 1,460 students in Grades 9-12 in the United States who reported having used more alcohol and/or drugs during the pandemic than before it started.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed that only 15.3% of students sought TMHC. Students reporting increased substance use during the pandemic were more likely to use TMHC if they experienced more severe mental health problems (e.g., suicide attempts) compared to other ecological factors, such as issues with their family, school, or community. Analysis of the moderating effect showed that the closer male students felt to people at school, the more likely they were to seek TMHC, whereas the opposite was true for female students.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings highlighted that feeling close to people at school is an important aspect of understanding the help-seeking behavior of female and male adolescent substance users.</p>","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151213/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9769905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah N. Lang, Erin Tebben, Rosalie Odean, M. Wells, He Huang
{"title":"Inequities in Coaching Interventions: A Systematic Review of Who Receives and Provides Coaching Within Early Care and Education","authors":"Sarah N. Lang, Erin Tebben, Rosalie Odean, M. Wells, He Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09748-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09748-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89789237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classroom and Behavior Management Training Needs and Perceptions: A Systematic Review of the Literature","authors":"Stacy N. McGuire, H. Meadan, Rebecca Folkerts","doi":"10.1007/s10566-023-09750-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09750-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47479,"journal":{"name":"Child & Youth Care Forum","volume":"35 1 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90976685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}