Background For decades, parental self‐efficacy (PSE), or parents' belief in their ability to
influence their child in a healthy and success‐promoting manner, has been understood as a …

A growing body of recent research has identified associations between various parenting
practices and styles and internalizing problems among adolescents. However, the reported …

School attendance problems (SAPs) are heterogeneous with respect to etiology and
presentation. The long history of conceptualizing SAPs has led to a vast array of terms and …

A student's academic and social-emotional development is increasingly jeopardized with
mounting absence from school. School refusal (SR) is one type of school attendance …

Absence from school jeopardizes children's and adolescents' education and their social and
emotional development. Proximal and distal individual, parental, familial, and environmental …

What function does parental self-efficacy have for parenting behaviors and children's
adjustment, and what explains individual variations in parents' self-efficacy? Parental self …

School refusal and other school attendance problems are vexing problems for school-aged
youth, families, school personnel, and clinicians. However, few resources exist to detect …

School refusal is a complex problem that refers to difficulty attending/remaining at school
due to emotional distress about attendance. Despite its occurrence being associated with …

This questionnaire-based study compared 36 Israeli lesbian mother families (n= 72 lesbian
mothers) formed by donor insemination, 39 Israeli gay father families (n= 78 gay fathers) …

Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty:
A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet …