An Exploration Of The Impact Of Family Relational Dynamics And Structure On The Development And Magnitude Of Disordered Eating
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An Exploration of the Impact of Family Relational Dynamics and Structure on the Development and Magnitude of Disordered Eating
Author: Gabrielle Marie Roy (Psy.D. candidate at the University of Hartford)
language: en
Publisher:
Release Date: 2021
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the relationship between family dynamics, such as emotional availability and parentification, family structure, and disordered eating symptomology. Over the past few decades, there has been a gradual shift away from the traditional, nuclear (i.e., two, heterosexual, married parents in the home) family structure, which has the potential to impact the upbringing of children and influence the development of psychopathology, such as eating disorders. It was hypothesized that variations of such factors (i.e., family structure, emotional availability, and parentification) would be associated with the prevalence of past eating disorder(s) as well as the severity of current eating disorder symptomology. Consistent with previous findings and empirical research, results from this study suggested that there is an association between emotional availability of both mothers and fathers and current disordered eating symptomology. Alternatively, parentification was not found to be linked with current disordered eating behavior. With regard to family structure, mothers’ emotional availability was found to be the strongest predictor of current eating disorder symptomology for individuals who were raised in divorced families, whereas fathers’ emotional availability was the strongest predictor for those who grew up in (heterosexually) married families. Greater knowledge of the way in which family impacts the development and magnitude of disordered eating symptomology may assist clinicians in the treatment of these disorders, as effectively treating an eating disorder frequently requires treatment of the whole family. It is hoped that the exploratory nature of this study may provide insight for future research that may be utilized for the development of more effective eating disorder intervention and prevention programs.
Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language: en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date: 2016-11-21
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Families Caring for an Aging America
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language: en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date: 2016-12-08
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.