He notes that a psychic closing off can serve a
highly adaptive function; it protects survivors from feeling helpless and is our defense against death anxiety and death guilt.
Yet, the universal occurrence of forgetting throughout the animal kingdom suggests that it serves
critical adaptive functions, driven by distinct mechanisms.
The headlights
get adaptive function that automatically aligns light beams with steering inputs and follow curves in the road.
While child adaptive behaviour was lower in ASD children,
adaptive functioning did not impact negative outcomes in mothers.
But typically laughter serves as an emotionally laden social signal and occurs in the presence of others, which led psychologist Diana Szameitat and her team to explore the possible
adaptive function of human laughter.
Proximal process moderation patterns were identified (e.g., families with parents with lower levels of adaptive child discipline skills gained more from MST), but the majority of significant interactions showed a facilitation moderation pattern with, for instance, higher levels of
adaptive functioning in families and parents appearing to facilitate MST (i.e., greater benefits from MST were found for these families).
Effects of Risperidone and Parent Training
on Adaptive Functioning in Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Serious Behavioral Problems Lawrence Scahill, M.S.N., Ph.D., Christopher J. McDougle, M.D., et.
A meta - analysis of over three hundred articles by Segerstrom and Miller (2004) elucidated that physiological reactions to acute stressors
serve adaptive functions, wher...
This triage approach «is designed to reduce distress, foster short - and long -
term adaptive functioning, and link survivors with additional services,» Watson and her co-authors explained in a new paper, also published in the September issue of American Psychologist.
Randomized controlled trial of the use of compensatory strategies to
enhance adaptive functioning in outpatients with schizophrenia.Velligan DI, Bow - Thomas CC, Huntzinger C, et al.Am J Psychiatry2000 Aug; 157:1317 — 23.
«My clinical focuses are psychological and psychoeducational assessment in school and clinical settings for intellectual disabilities, gifted status, learning disabilities, ADHD, emotional and personality disturbances, and
adaptive functioning deficits.
We discuss results in the context of their implications of our integrative model of racial socialization and supportive parenting in
promoting adaptive functioning in under - resourced African American families.
School - age and adolescent children of depressed parents are at risk for
impaired adaptive functioning and psychopathology, including conduct disorders, affective disorders and anxiety disorders.
Achievement Tests, Objective or Subjective Personality Tests,
Adaptive Functioning Tests, Intelligent Tests, are but a few of the instruments commonly used in attempting to help a person gain insight and understanding of themselves.
But the question arises: Do dinosaurs and finches possess their specific features in order to realize particular goals or because during the course of evolutionary experimentation they have accidentally
acquired adaptive functions by an impersonal process of natural selection?
Our findings above raise the question: Could adding a specific cognitive training component to schema therapy speed up and / or enhance the ability to disengage from these unhelpful rigid cognitive processes to enable
more adaptive functioning?
The assessment of a child involves a judgment
about adaptive functioning in the context of caregiving relationships — family and early care and education - and requires an understanding of what is valued and expected by the family's culture (Emde, 2006).
That is, in addition to their LBW / PT status, children with a difficult temperament who experience family conflict during early elementary school years have
poorer adaptive functioning than LBW / PT children without these additional risks.
Contributions of peer, romantic partner, and nonparental adult relationships to adolescent adaptive functioning
Children with high levels of aggressive - hyperactive - impulsive - inattentive behavior (AHII; n = 154) were subdivided into those with (n = 38) and without (n = 116) adaptive disability (+ AD / − AD) defined as a discrepancy between expected versus
actual adaptive functioning.
At two time points (T1 and T2, ~ 15 months apart), we examined early academic skills (school readiness), and parent - reported behavioral adjustment (internalizing and externalizing behavior) and
adaptive functioning of a sample of 75 children (45.9 % boys, mean age = 5.17 years) adopted from Russia into US families.
Electronic components such as transistors and amplifiers
with adaptive functions could be reduced to single, complex molecules.
These are complemented by tests on specific cognitive functions by subtests from the developmental neuropsychological test battery A Developmental NEuroPSYchological Assessment, version 2 (NEPSY - II) including attention and executive functioning, language, social perception, sensorimotor and visuospatial processing (Delhi) and
adaptive functioning by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (Bangalore).
Treatment group boys showed no significant improvements on the Teacher's Reporting Form (TRF) measures, except
for adaptive functioning.
However, temperament has several dimensions, each of which may be implicated in different ways in long -
term adaptive functioning, depending on the quality of children's experiences throughout childhood (Rothbart, Ahadi, Hershey, & Fisher, 2001).
A more recent definition in the context of evaluating child and adolescent treatment defines therapy as any intervention that is designed to alleviate distress, reduce maladaptive behavior, or
enhance adaptive functioning and that uses means that include counseling and structured or planned interventions (Weisz, Weiss, Han, Granger, & Morton, 1995).»
ASD assessments are administered to determine whether a child has an autism spectrum disorder, as well as explore the cognitive and behavioural difficulties often evident in children with ASD (intellectual and
adaptive functioning deficits, communication limitations, learning difficulties, sensori - motor problems, social deficits).
In conclusion, healthy mothers with internalizing symptoms appear to have children with higher HRV, which in turn fosters strategies that
promote adaptive functioning in the children.
Various studies have shown that school - age children of depressed mothers display
impaired adaptive functioning, including internalizing and externalizing problems.
The human potential, movement may serve such
an adaptive function, and perhaps Synanon also does to a certain extent.
His studies of nonsuicidal self - injury (such as cutting and burning) among adolescents have demonstrated that these behaviors may serve
an adaptive function by activating the body's ability to self - regulate runaway anger, anxiety, or stress.
But they score higher on a test of
adaptive functioning, which measures daily - living skills.