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A study confirmed the notion that preparing a child psychologically for surgery benefits not only the child but also the entire medical process. The study also confirmed significant statistical reduction of fear resulting from the effectiveness of psychological preparation and the use of films showing the surgical procedure. (Author/LB)

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The aim of this study was to describe and compare routines and behaviors in a sample of children from three countries during the mandatory quarantine of the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze their connections to anxiety. A total of 335 children aged 3 to 7 years from Spain, Argentina and the United States participated in the study. The instruments used were the Routine and Behavior Scale (RBS) and the Preschool Anxiety Scale (PAS). Using network sampling through online questionnaires in Spanish and English, the results showed differences in routines and behaviors patterns in participants from countries under confinement, as well as higher anxiety scores. The negative repercussions of confinement may affect a child’s welfare. It is therefore necessary to carry out cross-cultural studies in order to enable the early detection of psychopathological symptoms and promote prevention and intervention programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between participation and mental health of children and adolescents according to the perceptions of professionals working in the protection system in Chile. Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with 8 psychologists and 7 social workers (10 women and 5 men between 27 and 55 years old) belonging to the regions of Valparaíso, Metropolitana, Araucanía and Magallanes. A thematic analysis was carried out through an interpretative process of the data by constructing categories of analysis. It was found that among the professionals there is a low consensus regarding the concept of participation; that a contextual view of mental health prevails; and that they share the idea that the relationship between participation and mental health of children and adolescents is mainly given by the influence of participation on their mental health. Based on this, there is a need to generate new training and/or instances of reflection for professionals in the protection area where the idea of the reciprocal impact between participation and mental health of children and adolescents is strengthened. The need to include specific mechanisms to facilitate child participation in the technical guidelines of the programs is also proposed. As a projection for future research, it is necessary to explore the effective implementation of participation practices in future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children’s attributions towards withdrawn behaviors are usually determined by the particular social milieu in which they develop and tend to influence their behaviors and reactions. The aim of this work was to compare the attributions towards two subtypes of social withdrawal (shyness and unsociability) referred by children from three different contexts in Mendoza, Argentina: urban, urban-marginalized and rural. Participants were 221 kindergarten children from these contexts (urban: n = 82, Mmonths = 62.33; urban-marginalized: n = 72, Mmonths = 60.47; rural: n = 67, Mmonths = 63.07). Children were individually interviewed with a series of graphic vignettes with hypothetical characters displaying shy and unsociable behaviors, and for comparison purposes were also assessed aggressive and socially competent behaviors. After each vignette, children were asked a series of questions designed to assess their attributions toward each behavior in six dimensions: intentionality, social motivation, affiliative preference, social status, negative impact and sympathy. The results of this study showed that young children in the three contexts were able to distinguish social withdrawal from other types of behaviors (i.e., aggressiveness and sociability). Overall, withdrawn behaviors received more positive attributions (greater affiliative preference, better social position and less negative impact) than aggressive behaviors, although they were also perceived negatively in relation to more socially competent behaviors (the latter were attributed greater affiliative preference and best position within the peer group). Furthermore, it was observed that children from the three contexts made clearly distinctions among the different forms of social withdrawal in terms of intentionality and social motivation. Specifically, they reported that compared with unsociable characters, shy ones are more socially motivated and less intentional in their behavior, evocating greater feelings of compassion. However, some peculiarities can be appreciated in each context. The results indicated that children in the urban group reported greater feelings of sympathy for the shy character in relation to the unsociable, which was not evidenced in the other groups. In addition, children from the rural sample showed a greater preference for interact with the hypothetical shy peer than with the unsociable character and this inclination was also greater when compared with the urban sample. Taken together, these results may suggest that different socialization norms and expectations would evoke different meanings and implications to the socially withdrawn manifestations. It might be possible that in urban contexts children’s socialization expectations highlight extraversion and self-affirming behaviors which generate more empathetic reactions in front of passive or fearful manifestations as shyness. On the other hand, rural children may prefer peers who display shy behaviors possibly because it is in line with expectations of social cohesion and modesty that are value in this milieu. Nevertheless, no differences were found between shy and unsociable behaviors in any of the contexts in terms of social position and negative impact that they anticipated for the peer group. These results could provide some support for the idea that social withdrawal tends to be globally perceived as benign at an early age, and especially in the rural context, where it is a frequent and valued behavior. Although it is not possible with the limited variables included in this study to know which are the specific contextual aspects that affect some attributions and through what mechanisms they do so, these findings are an important starting point to continue deepening the socialization processes in urban, urban-marginalized and rural young children. This study is also one of the first to evaluate the knowledge and attributions of Argentinean children from different social context toward social withdrawal and provides new evidence on the differences in the cultural meaning and implications of withdrawn behaviors in early childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the relationship between the levels of Processing Speed and Executive Functions in sixth grade students of the Ciudad de Pasto Educational Institution (IEMCP), Colombia. Method: Correlational descriptive research. The ENI-2 test was used, specifically the Executive Functions factor and the Processing Speed subtests of the WISC-IV. To analyze this relationship, the statistical program SPSS 0.25 was used, applying the Pearson and Spearman correlation indices. Results and conclusion: Based on the correlation indices, a positively favorable association is identified between the Processing Speed subtests with the Executive Functions in Verbal Fluency, Graphic Fluency, Cognitive Flexibility, and Planning and Organization. At the end, comparative ranges are presented based on the gender of the participants, demonstrating a low influence of this factor on the variables, in addition to recognizing the importance of this relationship in the child's learning development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition that is characterized by failures in social behavior and repetitive behaviors. The neuropsychological profile shows heterogeneous findings that depends on the severity of the disorder. The objective of this paper is to describe the neuropsychological functioning of a sample of children with ASD who attend the Institute for the Integral Development of Children with Autism (DINA). The sample consisted of 78 participants, 15.4 % female and 84.6 % male, aged between 6 and 16 years. The instruments used were the neuropsychological protocol adapted from the ENI, intelligence apportionment from the WISC-IV, Sally and Ann Test, Facial Expressions Test adapted by Paul Ekman and Reading the Mind in the Eye for children, Faux Pas Test, and The Happé's Strange Stories test. The results are discussed considering the scientific literature on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This special issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematical and Experimental Psychology (CIIPME), an executive unit of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Over these five decades, CIIPME has carried out interdisciplinary research on a wide range of topics related to human experience, which have contributed to scientific development and proposals to improve the living and learning conditions of various sectors of society. The article presents several research papers related to the development of literacy skills in children from low socioeconomic levels in Chile, the relationship between prosody and reading comprehension in Spanish speakers, the influence of textual structure on oral and written comprehension, the use of technology during childhood and its association with child development, the meaning of basic emotions concepts in children and adults, emotional regulation strategies in writing learning, private speech as a window to investigate motivation in adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities, school adjustment and connectivity with the environment in environmental education, the impact of the terms dyslexia and specific learning difficulty on teacher self-efficacy, the sociocognitive conflict theory of development, and attributions about the causes of poverty in Argentina. The article analyzes the causal attributions of general poverty and child poverty. [Extracted from the article]

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The objective of this narrative review is to present an update on children 's emotional self-regulation, emphasizing its conceptual development, the instruments available for its evaluation instruments and the importance of an integrated psychological assessment. Various sources of information were reviewed, especially journal articles in specialized databases, as well as reference authors in the local environment. It concludes by pointing out the importance of this concept in various fields, such as basic and clinical training in areas of evaluation and psychotherapeutic treatment. The importance of the study of children 's emotional self-regulation in childhood is also pointed out, since it is directly linked to the processes of mental health, socialization and academic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Diana Baumrind (1966) proposed three primary parenting styles: the authoritarian style, the permissive style, and the authoritative style. Almost two decades later, Maccoby and Martin (1983) theoretically added a fourth (negligent) parenting style. Parental styles are based on variations in the levels of the parental dimensions of sensitivity (warmth, affection), parental demand (parental control) and autonomy granted (Richaud, Lemos & Vargas Rubilar, 2013). It has been suggested that the findings related to broad parenting styles are not always easy to interpret (Stewart & Bond, 2002) and that Baumrind's three-category parenting style typology can be usefully disaggregated into parenting dimensions (Darling and Steinberg, 1993). A dimensional approach can be particularly valuable in allowing an independent assessment of parenting and discipline (Locke & Printz, 2002). One of these dimensional models is that of Power (2002), which includes 11 dimensions of which the first three: Sensitivity, Inconsistency and Follow-up through discipline, evaluate a general dimension of the relationship of parents with their children, as perceived by parents. These three basic dimensions correspond to those of Baumrind described above: sensitivity (warmth, affection), autonomy granted (permissiveness) and parental demand (parental control), respectively. Power's Parenting Styles Inventory (PDI) assesses parenting styles from a parent's perspective. It is a self-report that, as we said, assesses 11 dimensions of parents' attitudes and behaviors towards their children. It has 57 items organized into 11 scales, each of which evaluates different dimensions of parent-child relationships. The first three scales, which include 13 items, measure a "general dimension" (Support / care, Inconsistency and Follow-up through discipline / control). The following scales assess different types of control and are distinguished from the general dimensions, in that they focus on disciplinary practices in response to the child's misbehavior. The PDI-S is a shortened version, which retains the most valid and reliable components of the original PDI. The PDI-S can be used with parents of children between 3 and 12 years old, and was developed from the PDI (Slater & Power, 1987). Given the importance of having an adequate instrument to assess parental style from the parents' perspective, the objective of this study is to adapt the Inventory of Parental Dimensions in its short version (Power, 2002) to the Argentine population. The 13 items included in the evaluation of the General Dimension, were translated, which includes the dimensions: Support / care, Inconsistency and Follow-up through discipline / control). The translated Inventory was administered to an intentional sample of 771 adults, 535 women and 236 men, between 26 and 63 years of age (Me = 38.56 SD = 4.76), middle class (Stratum II of the Graffar / Méndez Castellanos Scale), of the non-clinical population, and parents of children who attended pre-school in 12 private schools in different provinces of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán). The Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the three-dimensional theoretical model, proposed by the authors of the original test, satisfactorily adjusted to the data, indicating an adequate consistency of the test structure. In addition, reliability was analyzed as internal consistency evaluated through McDonald's omega, obtaining the following values: Support / care = .74; Follow-up through discipline / control = .70 and Inconsistency = .74. Finally, given that the Inventory has been studied with an extensive sample, drawn from several Argentine provinces, the results obtained are generalizable to almost the entire country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, the number of researches on suicidal behavior in childhood and adolescence has increased, however, there are no studies at present that characterize the scientific production in research perspectives. The objective of this article is to carry out a systematic review of the main perspectives of study on suicidal behavior in children and adolescents, emphasizing the main risk factors at the biopsychosocial level, clinical predictors and explanatory models. The bibliographic search was carried out in the Web of Science database. For the management of the information, a citation and clustering analysis was carried out by means of graph theory. The tools Sci2 Tool and Gephi were used. Three dominant research orientations were found focused on the analysis of psychiatric predictors of suicidal behavior (1), the relationship between non-suicidal selfinjury and suicidal behavior (2) and child abuse and its relationship with suicidal behavior (3). It is hoped that this study will contribute to the understanding of the multiple research questions about suicidal behavior in childhood and adolescence. At the same time, the methodology used enriches the field of study by accurately reflecting its current status at the research level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nowadays, parents must develop strategies to accompany their children in the use of digital technologies. The reason for this is that the internet is a social space. Online life offers possibilities for individual and social development, but it also promotes the emergence of new risks such as sexting, cyberbullying, and cyber dependence. There are two ways parents can guide their children: parental mediation and parental control. Parental mediation is the set of actions that parents take to manage the use and consumption of the media by their sons and daughters. There are three types of parental mediation: restrictive mediation, permissive mediation, and active mediation. In this context, this research aims to correlate mediation and parental control strategies with their use of the internet for children and adolescents. The EU Kids Online survey was used to achieve this goal. This questionnaire was adapted for the Colombian population through expert review and cognitive validation to children and adolescents in Medellin, Cali, and Cartagena (Colombia). The adaptation followed the procedures and standards of Kids Online Brasil and Kids Online Chile. The stratified and non-probabilistic sample consisted of 303 children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years from ten cities in Colombia. The results indicate that the more parental control, the shorter the child connection time. Whether it's behavioral or psychological control. While the greater the psychological control of the mother, the greater the presence of addictive behaviors of children and adolescents to the internet and cell phone. Besides, the more psychological control of the mother, the more risky behaviors the children assume. Conversely, if the mother performs greater behavioral control, the presence of risky behaviors in the child is less. Also, restrictive control of internet use has a higher relationship with a lower presence of general risk behaviors and lower risks assumed by children on the internet. This was also related to high rates of restrictive mediation by parents. As conclusions, it is possible to say that any type of control that parents exercise over their children's use of the internet (restrictive, co-visioned or technical) is related to shorter connection time and less cell phone addiction. Besides, a conflicting relationship with the mother increases the addictive behaviors of the internet and the smartphone. Especially when the kind of control the mother exerts is psychological. Whereas, if the mother exerts greater behavioral control, the presence of risky behaviors in the child is less. This research could serve as the basis for the design and implementation of psychoeducational training programs for parents and caregivers aimed at developing effective parental mediation skills and strate gies to guide children and adolescents in their use of digital technologies. Also, the findings of this study could lay the scientific basis for the presentation of social projects that impact public policies on the responsible and healthy use of the internet. Moreover, when Colombia has a Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and media outreach strategies on ICT care. Finally, researches done in psychology about this topic are limited in Latin America. For this reason, the findings of this work are a significant step forward on the explanation of ITC use in the region from a disciplinary point of view. This article seeks to encourage researchers to continue to advance their knowledge of the relationships between parental mediation and the use of the internet by children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El articulo discute la importancia de bienestar docente de la salud mental de los alumnos y de sistema educativos con el enfoque del uso de la salud mental y apoyo psicosocial (SMAPS) a los niños y jóvenes afectados. El articulo también se centra en los factores y seguridad del bienestar del profesorado ,los programas de desarrollo profesional docente y el establecimiento de unas relaciones positivas entre los alumnos y profesores con el enfoque del programa de SMAPS.

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This study analyzes the ability of 14 children (65% girls) between 2 and 3 years old (M = 2.8; SD = 0.17) to understand wishes. The literature has taken for granted that children of these ages understand simple desires, relying on a structuralist posture of development, where there is basically a description of milestones that are related to age. In contrast to this tradition, this study seeks to account for a change and rely on the theory of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems. Therefore, using the microgenetic method, the children's ability to use the wishes of others to predict emotions and behaviors was assessed during several sessions. Wellman and Wooley (1990) classic tasks were adapted and presented to children in 5 sessions, where there were 3 variations of the tasks. The data were analyzed with the minimum and maximum technique, finding a set of trajectories with many fluctuations, which are far from showing high and stable performances as stated in previous studies. In development research, cumulative and homogeneous views make it difficult to observe change, and its amplitude, therefore it is necessary to emphasize variability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to analyze different forms of agency assumed by children and young people with respect to child protection policies, specifically, in terms of adoption or foster care processes. To this end, I apply an ethnographic approach to describe and analyze the institutional logic behind the operation of certain residential homes, the guidelines and sanctions that regulate the behavior of the children and young people housed there, and how they, in turn, make sense of and heighten the monitoring and control of these institutions. Secondly, I examine the ways in which children and young people develop their capacity for agency by engaging in dialogue or confronting the officials of the entities that promote and protect their rights; how they attribute meaning to the official's decisions, and how they seek to avoid them or propose alternatives. This paper supports the production of knowledge on how children and young people contribute to shaping social life and, at the same time, is intended to deepen the government's analysis of this sector of the population. I maintain that far from considering state intervention on children and young people as homogeneous and totalizing, the cases reveal the different nuances assumed by child government and how this variability creates the conditions to enable them to carry out their projects. The materials I present and analyze here are the result of field work, carried out over ten years, between 2009 and 2019, in households and entities that promote and protect rights, in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aimed to explore the psychological assessment of preschool children in Family Courts in the Brazilian forensic context. The objective was to understand how the practices of 12 forensic psychologists are with regard to the assessment of children aged 3 to 5, inserted in contexts of custody dispute and/or regulation of the right to coexistence. We sought to investigate what are the psychological techniques used by professionals, the difficulties and the advantages of doing it, as well as the use of resources such as tests and protocols by the professionals interviewed. It was possible to draw an overview of the performance of geographically representative expert psychologists, as it encompasses professionals from the five Brazilian regions. The interview with children was understood to be a fundamental part of the assessment process in the forensic context, despite the lack of specific instruments and guidelines to guide it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]