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From the fragments of our notebooks, from the dissonance of overdriven, overprotective ' research ', we create our pasts and thus interpret our presents.
Why would highly critical, hostile, or overprotective attitudes in caregivers bring about a mood disorder relapse in a biologically vulnerable family member?
Negative relations with parents is measured by five items assessing the extent to which youths find parents to be domineering, overprotective, unsupportive, and demanding.
Also, some prog ram staff members were initially overprotective of clients and declined to administer the full assessment.
Vulnerable children for whom protective influences are unavailable, or who are less resilient when facing adversity will be more strongly affected by critical or overprotective attitudes of parents.
One possibility is that parents act more concerned and overprotective of boys that appear inhibited and thus, contribute to the continuity in this behavior over time.
The developmental psychopathology0biopsychosocial model posits that the seeds of critical, hostile, or overprotective behaviors or attitudes begin with a child who has a temperamental vulnerability to mood swings.
There is always a balance between putting children at risk and being overprotective.
