Tim Ayers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5842418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Ayers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayers |
| SIGNATURE | AYERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regional patterns in medieval European glass composition as a provenancing tool
The Family Bereavement Program: Description of a Theory-based Prevention Program for Parentally-Bereaved Children and Adolescents
This article describes a preventive intervention to promote resilience of parentally bereaved youth. This intervention includes separate but concurrent programs for youth and caregivers that were developed to change empirically-supported risk and protective factors. We first discuss the risk that parental death confers to youth mental health and social adaptation outcomes. Next, we discuss the theoretical framework underlying this program. After …
Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period – rediscovery of a lost technology
Six-Year Longitudinal Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents and Young Adults
Using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, we examined posttraumatic growth in a sample of 50 adolescents and young adults who had experienced parental death in childhood or adolescence. Longitudinal relations were examined between baseline measures of contextual and intraindividual factors and scores on the posttraumatic growth subscales (i.e., New Possibilities, Relating to Others, Personal Strengths, Spiritual Changes, and Appreciation of Life)…
Parentally Bereaved Children's Grief: Self-System Beliefs as Mediators of the Relations between Grief and Stressors and Caregiver–Child Relationship Quality
We investigated whether 3 self-system beliefs--fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem--mediated the relations between stressors and caregiver-child relationship quality and parentally bereaved youths' general grief and intrusive grief thoughts. Cross-sectional (n = 340 youth) and longitudinal (n = 100 youth) models were tested. In the cross-sectional model, fear of abandonment mediated the effects of stressors and relationship qual…
Resilience Rather Than Recovery: A Contextual Framework on Adaptation Following Bereavement
Using a contextual resilience framework, the authors examine the processes whereby bereaved persons change over time. Rather than the concept recovery, the authors propose that the concept adaptation best captures the process of change following bereavement and that the desired outcome of such adaptation is denoted by the term resilience. Adaptation occurs over time and is shaped by environmental and individual level risk and protective factors. …
Positive Parenting as a Protective Resource for Parentally Bereaved Children
Positive parenting was examined as a protective resource against the adverse effects of negative life events on parentally bereaved children's mental health problems. The sample consisted of 313 recently bereaved children ages 8 to 16 and their current caregiver. Both the compensatory (direct effect independent of negative life events) and the stress-buffer (interactive effect with negative life events) protective resource models were examined an…
Developing Effective Prevention Services for the Real World: A Prevention Service Development Model
A Prevention Service Development Model (PSDM) is presented as an approach to develop, prevention programs that are both effective and that are readily adopted for implementation in community settings. The model is an integration of concepts and methods from two fields, prevention research and marketing research as applied to new service development. Questions that are posed at each stage of the PSDM are described. Studies from the development of …
The Family Bereavement Program: Efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally bereaved children and adolescents.
This article presents an experimental evaluation of the Family Bereavement Program (FBP), a 2-component group intervention for parentally bereaved children ages 8-16. The program involved separate groups for caregivers, adolescents, and children, which were designed to change potentially modifiable risk and protective factors for bereaved children. The evaluation involved random assignment of 156 families (244 children and adolescents) to the FBP…
Locus of Control and Self-Esteem as Stress-Moderators or Stress-Mediators in Parentally Bereaved Children
Parentally bereaved children's locus of control and self-esteem were examined as stress-moderators or stress-mediators of their internalizing and externalizing mental health problems. Seventy-six children ages 8 to 16 and their surviving parent were assessed 4 to 34 months after the death. Stress, locus of control, and self-esteem were measured by child report questionnaires. Internalizing and externalizing mental health problems were measured by…
A Dispositional and Situational Assessment of Children's Coping: Testing Alternative Models of Coping
Dispositional and situational measures of children's coping were developed using a theoretically based approach. Two studies ( N 1 = 217; N 2 = 303) assessed the psychometric characteristics of these measures in fourth‐ through sixth‐grade children. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a four‐factor model of dispositional coping (active, distraction, avoidant, and support seeking) provided a better fit to the data than either the problemve…
No Safe Haven: A Study of Violence Exposure in an Urban Community
Evaluation of a preventive intervention for a self‐selected subpopulation of children
Evaluated an experimental preventive intervention developed for children who perceived their parents as problem drinkers. The 8‐session program was designed to improve children's coping, self‐esteem, and social competence, and modify alcohol expectancies which were specified as mediators of the effects of parental alcohol abuse on child mental health. Participants were 271 self‐selected 4th‐, 5th‐, and 6th‐grade students in 13 schools. The childr…
Development of a school-based prevention program for children in alcoholic families
Children's self‐selection into prevention programs: Evaluation of an innovative recruitment strategy for children of alcoholics
Systematically evaluated the efficacy of a self-selection strategy to recruit elementary-aged children into a school-based prevention program for children of alcoholics. Recruitment involved: a film about parental alcoholism, a follow-up meeting, and an invitation to participate in a prevention program. Of the 844 4th-6th graders exposed to recruitment, 67% showed no interest in the program, 26% attended the follow-up meeting, and 11% obtained pa…
Regional patterns in medieval European glass composition as a provenancing tool
Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period – rediscovery of a lost technology
Developing Effective Prevention Services for the Real World: A Prevention Service Development Model
A Prevention Service Development Model (PSDM) is presented as an approach to develop, prevention programs that are both effective and that are readily adopted for implementation in community settings. The model is an integration of concepts and methods from two fields, prevention research and marketing research as applied to new service development. Questions that are posed at each stage of the PSDM are described. Studies from the development of …
Parentally Bereaved Children's Grief: Self-System Beliefs as Mediators of the Relations between Grief and Stressors and Caregiver–Child Relationship Quality
We investigated whether 3 self-system beliefs--fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem--mediated the relations between stressors and caregiver-child relationship quality and parentally bereaved youths' general grief and intrusive grief thoughts. Cross-sectional (n = 340 youth) and longitudinal (n = 100 youth) models were tested. In the cross-sectional model, fear of abandonment mediated the effects of stressors and relationship qual…
Locus of Control and Self-Esteem as Stress-Moderators or Stress-Mediators in Parentally Bereaved Children
Parentally bereaved children's locus of control and self-esteem were examined as stress-moderators or stress-mediators of their internalizing and externalizing mental health problems. Seventy-six children ages 8 to 16 and their surviving parent were assessed 4 to 34 months after the death. Stress, locus of control, and self-esteem were measured by child report questionnaires. Internalizing and externalizing mental health problems were measured by…
Children's self‐selection into prevention programs: Evaluation of an innovative recruitment strategy for children of alcoholics
Systematically evaluated the efficacy of a self-selection strategy to recruit elementary-aged children into a school-based prevention program for children of alcoholics. Recruitment involved: a film about parental alcoholism, a follow-up meeting, and an invitation to participate in a prevention program. Of the 844 4th-6th graders exposed to recruitment, 67% showed no interest in the program, 26% attended the follow-up meeting, and 11% obtained pa…
Positive Parenting as a Protective Resource for Parentally Bereaved Children
Positive parenting was examined as a protective resource against the adverse effects of negative life events on parentally bereaved children's mental health problems. The sample consisted of 313 recently bereaved children ages 8 to 16 and their current caregiver. Both the compensatory (direct effect independent of negative life events) and the stress-buffer (interactive effect with negative life events) protective resource models were examined an…
Evaluation of a preventive intervention for a self‐selected subpopulation of children
Evaluated an experimental preventive intervention developed for children who perceived their parents as problem drinkers. The 8‐session program was designed to improve children's coping, self‐esteem, and social competence, and modify alcohol expectancies which were specified as mediators of the effects of parental alcohol abuse on child mental health. Participants were 271 self‐selected 4th‐, 5th‐, and 6th‐grade students in 13 schools. The childr…
Development of a school-based prevention program for children in alcoholic families
Children's self‐selection into prevention programs: Evaluation of an innovative recruitment strategy for children of alcoholics
Systematically evaluated the efficacy of a self-selection strategy to recruit elementary-aged children into a school-based prevention program for children of alcoholics. Recruitment involved: a film about parental alcoholism, a follow-up meeting, and an invitation to participate in a prevention program. Of the 844 4th-6th graders exposed to recruitment, 67% showed no interest in the program, 26% attended the follow-up meeting, and 11% obtained pa…
No Safe Haven: A Study of Violence Exposure in an Urban Community
Evaluation of a preventive intervention for a self‐selected subpopulation of children
Evaluated an experimental preventive intervention developed for children who perceived their parents as problem drinkers. The 8‐session program was designed to improve children's coping, self‐esteem, and social competence, and modify alcohol expectancies which were specified as mediators of the effects of parental alcohol abuse on child mental health. Participants were 271 self‐selected 4th‐, 5th‐, and 6th‐grade students in 13 schools. The childr…
A Dispositional and Situational Assessment of Children's Coping: Testing Alternative Models of Coping
Dispositional and situational measures of children's coping were developed using a theoretically based approach. Two studies ( N 1 = 217; N 2 = 303) assessed the psychometric characteristics of these measures in fourth‐ through sixth‐grade children. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a four‐factor model of dispositional coping (active, distraction, avoidant, and support seeking) provided a better fit to the data than either the problemve…
The Family Bereavement Program: Efficacy evaluation of a theory-based prevention program for parentally bereaved children and adolescents.
This article presents an experimental evaluation of the Family Bereavement Program (FBP), a 2-component group intervention for parentally bereaved children ages 8-16. The program involved separate groups for caregivers, adolescents, and children, which were designed to change potentially modifiable risk and protective factors for bereaved children. The evaluation involved random assignment of 156 families (244 children and adolescents) to the FBP…
Locus of Control and Self-Esteem as Stress-Moderators or Stress-Mediators in Parentally Bereaved Children
Parentally bereaved children's locus of control and self-esteem were examined as stress-moderators or stress-mediators of their internalizing and externalizing mental health problems. Seventy-six children ages 8 to 16 and their surviving parent were assessed 4 to 34 months after the death. Stress, locus of control, and self-esteem were measured by child report questionnaires. Internalizing and externalizing mental health problems were measured by…
Positive Parenting as a Protective Resource for Parentally Bereaved Children
Positive parenting was examined as a protective resource against the adverse effects of negative life events on parentally bereaved children's mental health problems. The sample consisted of 313 recently bereaved children ages 8 to 16 and their current caregiver. Both the compensatory (direct effect independent of negative life events) and the stress-buffer (interactive effect with negative life events) protective resource models were examined an…
Developing Effective Prevention Services for the Real World: A Prevention Service Development Model
A Prevention Service Development Model (PSDM) is presented as an approach to develop, prevention programs that are both effective and that are readily adopted for implementation in community settings. The model is an integration of concepts and methods from two fields, prevention research and marketing research as applied to new service development. Questions that are posed at each stage of the PSDM are described. Studies from the development of …
Resilience Rather Than Recovery: A Contextual Framework on Adaptation Following Bereavement
Using a contextual resilience framework, the authors examine the processes whereby bereaved persons change over time. Rather than the concept recovery, the authors propose that the concept adaptation best captures the process of change following bereavement and that the desired outcome of such adaptation is denoted by the term resilience. Adaptation occurs over time and is shaped by environmental and individual level risk and protective factors. …
Parentally Bereaved Children's Grief: Self-System Beliefs as Mediators of the Relations between Grief and Stressors and Caregiver–Child Relationship Quality
We investigated whether 3 self-system beliefs--fear of abandonment, coping efficacy, and self-esteem--mediated the relations between stressors and caregiver-child relationship quality and parentally bereaved youths' general grief and intrusive grief thoughts. Cross-sectional (n = 340 youth) and longitudinal (n = 100 youth) models were tested. In the cross-sectional model, fear of abandonment mediated the effects of stressors and relationship qual…
Six-Year Longitudinal Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth in Parentally Bereaved Adolescents and Young Adults
Using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, we examined posttraumatic growth in a sample of 50 adolescents and young adults who had experienced parental death in childhood or adolescence. Longitudinal relations were examined between baseline measures of contextual and intraindividual factors and scores on the posttraumatic growth subscales (i.e., New Possibilities, Relating to Others, Personal Strengths, Spiritual Changes, and Appreciation of Life)…
Technology, production and chronology of red window glass in the medieval period – rediscovery of a lost technology
The Family Bereavement Program: Description of a Theory-based Prevention Program for Parentally-Bereaved Children and Adolescents
This article describes a preventive intervention to promote resilience of parentally bereaved youth. This intervention includes separate but concurrent programs for youth and caregivers that were developed to change empirically-supported risk and protective factors. We first discuss the risk that parental death confers to youth mental health and social adaptation outcomes. Next, we discuss the theoretical framework underlying this program. After …
Regional patterns in medieval European glass composition as a provenancing tool
Psychology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)