The Role of Language Skill in Child Psychopathology: Implications for Intervention in the Early Years
| Autor: | Clare-Ann Fortune, Karen Salmon, Richard O'Kearney, Elaine Reese |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Child age Child psychopathology media_common.quotation_subject Emotions education Psychological intervention Child Behavior Disorders Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Self-Control Education Developmental psychology Early Medical Intervention Intervention (counseling) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Narrative Conversation media_common Problem Behavior 05 social sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 19:352-367 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2827 1096-4037 |
| Popis: | In this narrative review, we suggest that children's language skill should be targeted in clinical interventions for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties in the preschool years. We propose that language skill predicts childhood emotional and behavioral problems and this relationship may be mediated by children's self-regulation and emotion understanding skills. In the first sections, we review recent high-quality longitudinal studies which together demonstrate that that children's early language skill predicts: (1) emotional and behavioral problems, and this relationship is stronger than the reverse pattern; (2) self-regulation skill; this pattern may be stronger than the reverse pattern but moderated by child age. Findings also suggest that self-regulation skill mediates the relation between early language skill and children's emotional and behavioral problems. There is insufficient evidence regarding the mediating role of emotion understanding. In subsequent sections, we review evidence demonstrating that: (1) particular kinds of developmentally targeted parent-child conversations play a vital role in the development of language skill, and (2) some current clinical interventions, directly or indirectly, have a beneficial impact on children's vocabulary and narrative skills, but most approaches are ad hoc. Targeting language via parent-child conversation has the potential to improve the outcomes of current clinical interventions in the preschool years. |
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