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  • Chapter 21 - Emotion Coaching in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence

  • from Part V - New Developments in Family-Based Intervention
  • Edited by Jennifer L. Allen, University of Bath, David J. Hawes, University of Sydney, Cecilia A. Essau, Roehampton University, London
  • Book:
    Family-Based Intervention for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
    Published online:
    18 February 2021
    Print publication:
    11 March 2021, pp 284-303

  • Summary

    Parents play a critical role in helping children learn to manage their emotions. In this chapter, we describe a promising new emotion coaching (EC) parenting intervention for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) targeting parent and child emotion regulation skills and parent-child relationships. We provide an overview of the EC intervention developed for this at-risk population, outline its key elements and use preliminary pilot data to illustrate how such a behavioural intervention can yield improvements in behavioural and physiological indices of emotion regulation (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) and parent-child relationships and reductions in mental health difficulties in IPV-exposed mothers and their children. We also provide a clinical case example to illustrate the EC treatment principles and process, identify several core competencies that enhance delivery and outcomes of the EC intervention and consider potential directions for future work on EC.

  • Vagal tone protects children from marital conflict

  • Lynn Fainsilber Katz, John M. Gottman
  • Journal:
    Development and Psychopathology / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / Winter 1995
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 March 2009, pp. 83-92

  • In a previous article we reported linkages between marital hostility and children's externalizing behavior problems (Katz & Gottman, 1993). In this paper we examined whether individual differences in children's ability to regulate emotion (as indexed by vagal tone, a physiological measure of parasympathetic nervous system activity) could buffer children from the deleterious effects of marital hostility. Observational data was collected on 56 families during marital interaction when the children were 5 years-old. Baseline recordings of children's cardiac interbeat interval were also obtained for computations of vagal tone. Teacher ratings of children's behavior problems were obtained 3 years later when the children were on average 8 years old. Results indicated that children with low vagal tone showed a strong link between the amount of marital hostility displayed by their parents and subsequent displays of children's externalizing behavior. There was no relationship between marital hostility and children's externalizing for children with high vagal tone, suggesting that high vagal tone can buffer children from the negative effects of marital hostility.

  • Coparenting, family-level processes, and peer outcomes: The moderating role of vagal tone

  • ALISON LEARY, LYNN FAINSILBER KATZ
  • Journal:
    Development and Psychopathology / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / September 2004
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 September 2004, pp. 593-608

  • This article examines the relationship between coparenting and family-level processes during preschool and peer relationship outcomes in middle childhood, and the hypothesis that children's ability to regulate emotion (as indexed by basal vagal tone and the ability to suppress vagal tone) may moderate this relationship. We predicted that high vagal tone and a greater ability to suppress vagal tone would buffer children from the effects of negative coparenting and family processes. Results indicated that hostile–withdrawn coparenting predicted higher levels of conflicted play and lower levels of positive peer conversation. Vagal suppression also moderated the relationship between hostile–withdrawn coparenting and peer conflict. For children who were unable to suppress vagal tone, hostile–withdrawn coparenting was associated with higher levels of peer conflict, while for children who were able to suppress vagal tone there was no relationship hostile–withdrawn coparenting and peer conflict. The relationship between hostile–withdrawn coparenting and positive peer conversation was also moderated by children's ability to suppress vagal tone. For children who were unable to suppress vagal tone, there was no relationship between hostile–withdrawn coparenting and positive peer conversation, while for those who were able to suppress vagal tone, hostile–withdrawn coparenting was associated with less positive peer conversation. Cohesive family-level processes also predicted positive conversation in play at age 9 after controlling for positive conversation at age 5; however, this relationship was not moderated by vagal suppression. Basal vagal tone also did not function as a moderator of relations between hostile–withdrawn coparenting and peer play. Results are discussed in terms of the effects of negative coparenting on children with different patterns of modulating physiological arousal.This research was supported by a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to the second author (1 R01 49141). The authors thank the families involved for their participation.

  • 7 - Physiological Processes as Mediators of the Impact of Marital Conflict on Children

  • Edited by John H. Grych, Marquette University, Wisconsin, Frank D. Fincham, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    Interparental Conflict and Child Development
    Published online:
    01 May 2010
    Print publication:
    19 March 2001, pp 188-212

  • Summary

    Investigations have consistently demonstrated a relationship between marital distress and conflict and problem behaviors in children. Marital distress and conflict have been associated with depression, withdrawal, poor social competence, health problems, poor academic performance, and conduct-related difficulties in children (e.g., Cummings & Davies, 1994; Gottman & Katz, 1989; Grych & Fincham, 1990; Hetherington, Cox, & Cox, 1982; Rutter, 1971). Physical marital violence also has profound effects on children's socioemotional adjustment. Children living in maritally violent homes exhibit higher levels of conduct problems (Hershorn & Rosenbaum, 1985; Jouriles, Murphy, & O'Leary, 1989), more internalizing and externalizing behavior problems (Sternberg et al., 1993; Jaffe, Wolfe, Wilson & Zak, 1986; Wolfe, Jaffe, Wilson & Zak, 1985), and more depressive symptoms (Sternberg et al., 1993) than children from nonmaritally violent homes.

    While it is clearly understood that interparental conflict relates to a host of behavioral problems, there is less known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between marital conflict and child maladjustment. In this chapter, the notion that physiological processes may serve as mediators of the impact of marital conflict on children is explored. A discussion of the limitations and advantages of physiological measures is presented, followed by a basic description of physiological methods and measures. Empirical evidence supporting the idea that physiological processes act as mediators of the impact of marital conflict on children is then reviewed, followed by a discussion of remaining issues that have yet to be explored in understanding the role of physiological arousal and regulation in children's reactions to marital conflict.

  • 7 - Marital discord and child outcomes: A social psychophysiological approach

  • Edited by Judy Garber, Kenneth A. Dodge, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    The Development of Emotion Regulation and Dysregulation
    Published online:
    26 March 2010
    Print publication:
    31 May 1991, pp 129-156

  • Summary

    It has long been recognized that marital and family relationships affect the adjustment of developing children. Observations of the suffering and confusion of children whose parents continually disagree have been corroborated generally by research findings of powerful familial correlates of young children's adjustment. Indeed, the best familial predictor of childhood behavior problems has been found to be marital discord (for a review, see Emery, 1982).

    Less clearly understood are the processes by which characteristics of the marital relationship come to affect children. Many questions remain unanswered. For example, is marital conflict that children observe worse for their adjustment than unobserved conflict is? One of the best predictors of physical spouse abuse is a report of having seen one's own parents be abusive to each other, regardless of whether they were abusive to their children (Dutton, 1987). We also do not know whether children are affected by marital dissatisfaction because there has been a change in the quality and/or quantity of the parent-child contact or whether negative consequences can occur independently of the parent-child relationship. For example, perhaps just having a depressed mother or a withdrawn father can change a child's interpersonal behavior.

    Nor have the exact consequences of marital discord for children been clearly outlined. Such varied symptoms as depression, withdrawal, acting out, and aggression have been observed (Hetherington, Cox, & Cox, 1978; Porter & O'Leary, 1980). It is not clear, however, whether marital discord disrupts one central developmental process or several different processes.