A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention.

Bugental, Daphne Blunt; Ellerson, Patricia Crane; Lin, Eta K.; Rainey, Bonnie; Kokotovic, Anna M.; O’Hara, Nathan N.

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“…In addition, prior research of parental transmission has shown that the manner in which a mother expresses her emotions is related to her child's emotion regulation (Eisenberg et al, 2001). Family influences, then, may include skills that parents learn regarding emotion regulation and parenting that will then affect their children, a family transmission that intervention studies have illustrated (Bugental et al, 2002).…”

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Genetic and environmental effects on daily life stressors: More evidence for greater variation in later life.

Charles

Almeida

2007

Psychology and Aging

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People vary in the occurrence and perceived severity of stressors experienced in their daily lives. In the current study, the authors examined the extent to which individual differences in these relatively minor occurrences are determined by genetic endowment as well as environmental influences and how these effects vary by age. Identical (n pairs ϭ 111) and fraternal (n pairs ϭ 99) twin adults ranging from 25 to 73 years old reported the occurrence and severity of their daily stressors on 8 consecutive evenings. Both genetic and unique environmental effects accounted for the variance in stressor occurrence, whereas shared family and unique environmental effects accounted for the variance in the perceived severity of these stressors. In addition, the influence of unique environment on perceived stress exerted a stronger influence among the older adults than the younger adults.

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Section: Stressor Severity: Genetic and Environmental Variancementioning

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Genetic and environmental effects on daily life stressors: More evidence for greater variation in later life.

Charles

Almeida

2007

Psychology and Aging

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“…Finally, Bugental et al (2002) reported an intervention targeted toward mothers who were at risk of making hostile attributions about their infants and engaging in physical abuse. Their cognitive intervention, focused on helping women understand that infants are not capable of behaving with hostile intent.…”

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Translational science in action: Hostile attributional style and the development of aggressive behavior problems

Dodge

2006

Develop. Psychopathol.

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A model of the development of hostile attributional style and its role in children's aggressive behavior is proposed, based on the translation of basic science in ethology, neuroscience, social psychology, personality psychology, and developmental psychology. Theory and findings from these domains are reviewed and synthesized in the proposed model, which posits that (a) aggressive behavior and hostile attributions are universal human characteristics, (b) socialization leads to the development of benign attributions, (c) individual differences in attributional style account for differences in aggressive behavior, and (d) interventions to change attributions have the potential to alter antisocial development. Challenges for future research are described.The problem of antisocial crime has been estimated to cost American society over one trillion dollars per year (Anderson, 1999). Chronically antisocial individuals cost society between 1.6 and 2.2 million dollars each over the life span (Cohen, 1998). As youth, they are called seriously emotionally disturbed in the education system, juvenile delinquents in the justice system, and conduct disordered in the mental health system. About 7% of males qualify as conduct disordered in psychiatric nosology (Dodge, Coie, & Lynam, 2006). Their antisocial behavior is regarded as highly stable across long periods of life, and they are notoriously difficult to treat effectively. In the search for solutions regarding an understanding of etiology of chronic antisocial behavior and novel methods for intervention and prevention, the practice field has turned to the basic sciences, including ethology, neuroscience, social psychology, personality, and developmental psychology. The translation of these sciences to the treatment of these children is captured in the tenets of developmental psychopathology.This article concerns one concept that has grown out of translational science: hostile attributional bias. Consider the hypothetical 12-year-old boy walking down the middle-school hallway. A peer runs down the hallway, knocking him over and spilling his books on the floor. Peers laugh. How does the boy respond? Does he interpret the incident as disrespect and a threat to his reputation for strength and toughness and respond aggressively, or does he interpret the act benignly and walk away? Every child has this kind of experience, and the child's attribution and response are crucial to his or her well-being, self-respect, and reputation for strength. As Nisbett and Cohen (1996, p. xv) noted, "In many of the world's cultures, social status, economic well-being, and life itself are linked to such a reputation." A central thesis of this article is that individual differences in aggressive behavior occur as a function of characteristic styles of attributing hostile intent (or not) to others' provocative behavior.Over the past 25 years, over 100 studies have identified reliable correlations between the attribution that a peer provocateur has acted with hostile intent and a behavioral...

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“…A Chi-square analysis (corrected for small samples) testing these differences revealed a trend-level difference (X 2 = 3.56, p =.07). Families also participated in an ongoing home visitation program in which they had been randomly assigned to either a cognitive reframing condition, or a condition focused on parent training and social support (employing methods described in Bugental, Ellerson, Lin, Rainey, Kokotovic, & O'Hara, 2002). A Chi-square analysis testing these differences revealed a trend-level difference among those who completed the program (X 2 = 3.30, p =.08).…”

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Hormonal sensitivity of preterm versus full-term infants to the effects of maternal depression

Bugental

Beaulieu

Schwartz

2008

Infant Behavior and Development

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Comparisons were made of differences in the hormonal sensitivity of preterm versus full-term infants to maternal depression, as reflected in children's cortisol levels. In Study 1 (N = 25), a comparison was made between preterm versus healthy full-term children. In Study 2 (N = 80), a comparison was made between preterm infants and full-term infants with mild or moderate medical problems. Preterm infants were found be highly reactive to maternal depression (as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory). That is, they demonstrated higher cortisol levels when paired with depressed mothers and lower cortisol levels when paired with non-depressed mothers. No equivalent effects were found for children who were full-term, even when they had experienced other medical problems at birth. It was concluded that premature infants are exceptionally sensitive to the "emotional climate" in their home environment. As a result, they may manifest very different hormonal outcomes --with implications for their later development.Considerable attention has been given historically to the fact that high levels of stress early in life predict later problems. More recently, such effects have been interpreted in terms of biological changes as mediators of this process. Researchers concerned with developmental psychopathology have given increasing attention to the neurohormonal responses of very young children to early trauma or stress (e.g., Bremner & Narayan, 1998;Gunnar, 2000; Nelson, 2000). However, interests have expanded beyond concern with trauma to a broader consideration of early experiences that predict children's later outcomes. It has also extended to consider possible variations in child vulnerability. Repetti, Taylor and Seeman (2000), in a review of literature concerning the biological outcomes of children in "risky" families (e.g., those characterized by aggression/conflict or coldness/neglect), concluded that child vulnerability and family risk combine to predict dysregulation of the child's stress response system --a consequence that ultimately has negative implications for their later health and well-being. In this study, we focused attention on maternal depression as a potential source of early stress for infants. Our specific concern here was on the differential vulnerability of preterm versus full-term infants to maternal depression -in terms of their stress-relevant hormonal responses.Maternal Depression-Maternal depression has repeatedly been found to have negative implications for maternal responsiveness and sensitivity to infants -which in turn has Corresponding author: Daphne Bugental, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Email: bugental@psych.ucsb.edu, David A. Beaulieu, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Email: beaulieu@psych.ucsb.edu, Alex F. Schwartz, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, Email: schwartz@psych.ucsb.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited ma...

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A cognitive approach to child abuse prevention.

Cited by 227 publications

References 58 publications

Genetic and environmental effects on daily life stressors: More evidence for greater variation in later life.

Genetic and environmental effects on daily life stressors: More evidence for greater variation in later life.

Translational science in action: Hostile attributional style and the development of aggressive behavior problems

Hormonal sensitivity of preterm versus full-term infants to the effects of maternal depression

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