Sentences with phrase «adversity on child behavior»

Shelly's professional focus is the impact of early life adversity on child behavior, learning, and development.

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But this stress is magnified in vulnerable communities, because young children living with the adversities of poverty exhibit more behavior problems, on average, than their peers (Evans et al., 2004; Gunnar, 2000).

According to the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, healthy, consistent relationships can help students to develop adequately, regulate behavior and overcome adversity.

I will help you and your family members get through uncertain and difficult times successfully by working with your child on developing better coping skills, communication skills, more positive behaviors, enhanced self - esteem and different ways to overcome life's adversities.»

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

Rutter & Quinton (1977) found that factors existing in children's social environment were linked to health - risk behaviors later in life, and were the first researchers to describe neglect, abuse, and other forms of maltreatment (what would later be considered adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs) in terms of their cumulative effect, range of adversity, and wide - reaching impact on both mental and physical health over the course of an individual's lifetime.

Building on an ecological model that explains multiple levels of influence on psychological development, 16 and a recently proposed biodevelopmental framework that offers an integrated, science - based approach to coordinated, early childhood policy making and practice across sectors, 17 this technical report presents an EBD framework that draws on a recent report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University to help physicians and policy makers think about how early childhood adversity can lead to lifelong impairments in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.1, 6