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The Impact of the Best Interests of the Child on Shared Parenting and Joint Custody. University of Antwerp

Frederik Swennen
University of Turin, Personal Rights and Property Rights
In the western legal tradition, joint custody is generally considered the optimum custody outcome when parents break up. Indeed, it is widely accepted that the involvement of both parents in the child upbringing is in the best interests of the child, even though they are living apart. But what does joint custody entail? Is joint custody implemented in the same way in Belgium, Italy, England and Wales? In whose best interests is joint custody ...

MARGA (Move ARound and Get Active): Using parenting practices to intervene in 24-hour movement behaviors in overweight preschoolers Ghent University

Marieke De Craemer
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

About 25% of Belgian preschoolers are overweight. Therefore, this project aims to increase the amount of overweight preschoolers complying with the new World Health Organization´s guidelines (May 2019) regarding 24-hour movement behaviors. By means of co-creation with parents an intervention will be developed targeting parenting practices. The different intervention components will be tested on effectiveness and duration of exposure.

Feeling, thinking, acting: Pathways to parenting in parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities KU Leuven

Bea Maes
Parenting and Special Education
Parenting can be seen as an interplay between a meaning-oriented and an action-oriented component. This means that parents’ goals, cognitions and affective responses regarding themselves, their child and their parenting role are important predictors of the parenting decisions they make and the parenting behaviors they enact. Very little is known on these processes in parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities ...

Khat use during pregnancy: impact on child development, parenting and maternal mental health Ghent University

Department of Head and Skin, Jimma University

Khat use is widely prevalent in East-Africa and frequently consumed by women during pregnancy. Research on the consequences of prenatal khat exposure for child development and parenting scarce. Therefore, this project will examine the effects of khat use during pregnancy on child development, maternal mental health and parenting in the Jimma region in Ethiopia.

Parenting Schemas: An Experimental Approach KU Leuven

Karla Van Leeuwen
Parenting and Special Education, School Psychology and Development in Context
Parenting behavior is, consciously or not, influenced by a number of covert factors, such as ideas and expectations about child rearing. This research proposal focuses on the covert factors to attain a better understanding of how parents deal with the behavior of their child. According to the theory, parental behavior emerges in four stages. A first stage is noticing the child behavior (e.g., seeing that the child pushes someone). In a second ...

What kind of parent do I want to be? The role of parental identity in first-time parents‟ well-being and early parenting Ghent University

Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

This project aims to investigate the development of parental identity in terms of well-being and parenting style of first-time parents during the transition to parenthood. Findings from this project may inform future preventions and interventions targeting parents‟ pre- and postnatal adjustment, to the benefit of both parents and their children‟s early development.

Temperament and parenting as predictors of psychosocial development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy. Ghent University

Sarah De Pauw
Department of Special Needs Education

This project addresses the predictive value of the temperament-parenting interplay, vitally crucial for all children, to explain the wide range of variability in both maladaptive and adaptive development of youngsters with special needs. Using a three-wave prospective cohort design, transdiagnostic generalizability of processes is tested in and across three neurodevelopmental disabilities (Autism, Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy) relative to ...

Parenting in a context of prolonged armed conflict Ghent University

Ilse Derluyn
Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

This research project studies the impact of war and armed conflicts onto parental ethno-theories and parenting practices. Hereto, we will execute three studies in Uganda, hereby using focus group discussions, questionnaires and multiple case studies. These studies will enable us to compare parenting practices in a regio affected by armed conflict with a non-war-affected region. On top, parenting in extreme situations of violence will be ...

Parenting adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder KU Leuven

Ilse Noens
Parenting and Special Education, Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences

Parents of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face specific challenges in parenting. However, little is known about parenting behaviours among parents of a child with ASD. Moreover, the literature is especially limited regarding adolescence (12 – 16 years), although this period is associated with additional challenges in parenting, given the multiple physical, social and psychological changes that characterize ...

Adolescents’ coping with parental pressure: The role of parenting history and emotion regulation Ghent University

Maarten Vansteenkiste
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

In the present project, we aim to investigate whether youngsters may cope differently with pressuring parenting strategies. Specifically, we will test whether these coping reactions are determined by the general parenting history and the adolescents’ emotion regulation style. Moreover, we will investigate whether we can affect youngsters’ emotion regulation style through an intervention.