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Girls Perform Better on Tests When Feuding Parents Divorce |
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Written by University of Florida
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A clean break from a bad marriage is actually better for the
couple’s school-age daughters than a troubled union, a new University
of Florida study finds.
Contrary to the expectation that marriage
is always good for children while divorce is bad, the study found that
the schoolwork of girls whose parents split up is better than that of
girls who live with a mom and dad who don’t get along, said Mark
Hoekstra, who did the research for his doctoral dissertation in
economics at UF.
“There is no question, as I and other
researchers find, that boys and girls from two-parent intact families
perform better academically than boys and girls whose parents
divorced,” Hoekstra said. “But I was surprised to learn that girls
whose parents divorced do better in school than girls from similarly
troubled families whose parents went to the brink of divorce but
remained married.”
In the study, girls between first- and
10th-grades whose parents divorced scored an average of slightly more
than eight points higher on standardized reading and mathematics tests
than girls whose parents filed for divorce but later requested the case
be dismissed. These differences persisted four years after the divorce,
he said.
No academic differences were found for boys, although
they did experience a short-term increase in disciplinary problems
immediately after divorce that did not last beyond three years, said
Hoekstra, who is now an economics professor at the University of
Pittsburgh.
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One Year after Katrina - the Mental Health Aftermath |
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Written by American Psychological Association
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Hurricane Katrina is acknowledged to be one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the United States. The storm and its aftermath displaced more than 1 million people, mostly African-Americans, and unveiled issues of national disaster preparedness, socioeconomic status and race.
Victims of national disasters often experience trauma that can lead to psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and substance abuse. Katrina and its aftermath left whole communities particularly vulnerable to such psychological disorders, not only because of the ongoing stress and upheaval of the storm, but also because of the challenging circumstances that many storm victims lived with before Katrina.
The loss of the social network and sense of self that come with familiar surroundings—a home, neighborhood, school and job—can in and of itself lead to serious psychological health problems.
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Marital Therapy Effective Treatment for Female Alcoholics |
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Written by RTI International
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Marital therapy may be more effective at treating female alcoholics than traditional methods, according to the findings of a new study by researchers at RTI International; University of Southern California, San Diego; and Old Dominion University. The study, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, looked at more than 120 female alcoholic patients and their male partners who were not substance abusers. Researchers found that women alcoholics treated with behavior couples therapy combined with individual alcoholism treatment reported greater reductions in drinking and higher levels of satisfaction in their relationships during the year following treatment compared to women alcoholics who received traditional one-on-one counseling only or those who participated in educational lectures with their partners. "Family and relationship factors play a particularly critical role in the drinking problems of women," said William Fals-Stewart, Ph.D., principal investigator and lead author for the study. "Interventions specifically designed to address both relationship and drinking problems at the same time are more likely to have a greater benefit for female alcoholic patients than traditional treatment methods for alcoholism, which largely focus on drinking only." |
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