Punitive Discipline May Work in Short Term but Could Cause Long-Term Emotional Damage

This study demonstrates that for those mother-child dyads in which discipline is frequent, the type of approach used appears important with distinct later childhood mental health outcome,” Rajyaguru and colleagues wrote. “[I]f mothers adopted more withdrawal and less active approaches, then l ater emotional and behavioral problems might be decreased.”(Image: iStock/Giselleflissak)FollowPsychiatric News on Twitter!For previous news alerts,click here.
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: behavioral problems discipline emotional problems Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry mood parenting Pryia Rajyaguru UK Millennium Cohort Study Source Type: research