The flowers of literature; being an exhibition of the most interesting geographical, historical, miscellaneous and theological subjects, in miniature. To which are prefixed, preliminary addresses, to parents, teachers and their pupils.

Mode of access: Internet.

Private education, or, A practical plan for the studies of young ladies : with an address to parents, private governesses, and young ladies /

Mode of access: Internet.

The wrongs of children, or, A practical vindication of children from the injustice done them in early nurture and education : addressed to parents, tutors, guardians, and masters, and to legislators and governors, setting forth the source of much human misery, and pointing out the remedy in a series of essays on education to be published periodically /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22547.

An address to parents and guardians, on the necessity of reducing all systems of art to the most simple and primary principles ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Hints to parents : in two parts.

From the 3rd London ed.

The mother's catechism. To which is prefixed a short address to parents and to children.

At head of title: No.86.

An offering of sympathy to the afflicted: especially to parents bereaved of their children. Being a collection from manuscripts never before published, with an appendix of extracts from various authors.

Mode of access: Internet.

The memoirs of the late Miss Emma Humphries, of Frome, England, with a series of letters to young ladies, on the influence of religion in the formation of their moral and intellectual character: and to parents, on the religious education and the bereavement of their children.

Mode of access: Internet.

An epistle of caution and advice to parents, recommending a Godly care for the educating their children in a Christian conversation.

Without title-page. Caption title.

A letter to parents and others : who have the care of youth in the Society of Friends /

Smith II:583.

Hints to parents ... no. I[-VI]

no. I. On the cultivation of children, in the spirit of Pestalozzi's method. 5th ed. 1827.--no. II. Exercises for exciting the attention and strengthening the thinking powers of children ... 5th ed. 1829.--no. III. First exercises in number; or, The elements of arithmetic visibly represented ... 4th ed. 1829.--no. IV. First exercises in forms. Intuition and denomination of the most simple relations of forms, their position and magnitude ... 2d ed. 1827.--no. V. First exercises in language ... 2d ed. 1827.--no. VI. Religious conversations, calculated for young children during the first period of education ... 1827.

The relationship of adult attachment to emotion, catastrophizing, control, threshold and tolerance, in experimentally-induced pain

Although insecure attachment has been associated with a range of variables linked with problematic adjustment to chronic pain, the causal direction of these relationships remains unclear. Adult attachment style is, theoretically, developmentally antecedent to cognitions, emotions and behaviours (and might therefore be expected to contribute to maladjustment). It can also be argued, however, that the experience of chronic pain increases attachment insecurity. This project examined this issue by determining associations between adult attachment characteristics, collected prior to an acute (coldpressor) pain experience, and a range of emotional, cognitive, pain tolerance, intensity and threshold variables collected during and after the coldpressor task. A convenience sample of 58 participants with no history of chronic pain was recruited. Results demonstrated that attachment anxiety was associated with lower pain thresholds; more stress, depression, and catastrophizing; diminished perceptions of control over pain; and diminished ability to decrease pain. Conversely, secure attachment was linked with lower levels of depression and catastrophizing, and more control over pain. Of particular interest were findings that attachment style moderated the effects of pain intensity on the tendency to catastrophize, such that insecurely attached individuals were more likely to catastrophize when reporting high pain intensity. This is the first study to link attachment with perceptions of pain in a pain-free sample. These findings cast anxious attachment as a vulnerability factor for chronic pain following acute episodes of pain, while secure attachment may provide more resilience. (c) 2006 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Medical treatment contrary to parents wishes: the illusion of parental autonomy

The NHS Trust v A (a child) & Ors [2007] EWHC 169

The influence of weak parental and peer attachment on academic achievement among late adolescent college students

The current study examined the influence of weak parental and peer attachment on academic achievement among late adolescent college students. In previous research, weak attachment to parents and/or peers had been found to have an adverse influence on the academic success of college students. This study also examined the potential moderating influence of several cognitive and non-cognitive psychosocial variables that might act as protective factors for weakly attached students and, therefore, enhance their academic competence. Data regarding attachment, cognitive variables, and non-cognitive variables were collected using several self-report measures. The multi-ethnic sample of students in this study (n = 357) attended an urban university. Students were classified into one of nine parental-peer attachment groups (e.g., Low-Low, Medium-Medium, High-High). Attachment groups were compared in terms of cognitive and non-cognitive variables. Contrary to the hypothesis, no statistically significant academic achievement differences were revealed for the group of college students who perceived themselves to be weakly attached to both parents and peers. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) identified the High-High group to be significantly different in terms of academic outcome variables from the other eight groups while the Low-Low group had significantly lower levels of non-cognitive variables than several of the other attachment groups. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that cognitive variables accounted for significant amounts of variance in academic outcomes and that several non-cognitive variables were significant predictors of scholastic competence. Correlational analyses revealed that parental and peer attachment were positively correlated with several cognitive and non-cognitive variables but neither was significantly correlated with self-reported college GPA. In general, the findings do not provide support for a main effect of weak attachment to parents and peers upon academic adversity among college students. Results suggest that both cognitive variables and non-cognitive variables may moderate academic risk due to weak attachment to parents and peers. Descriptive within group analyses of the Low-Low group revealed a heterogeneous group of students with regards to academic outcomes and scores on non-cognitive measures. Gender and ethnic differences were found for attachment status but not for cognitive or non-cognitive variables. Implications for interventions and suggestions for future research are presented. ^