Sentences with phrase «better use of interventions»

This suggests that teachers need ongoing support to implement research - based procedures and that the RLT model is one effective model for helping general education teachers to make better use of interventions in their instruction.

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While we feel the best interests of the child in question are paramount, the interests of society, including the other children who might have used this valuable resource, can not be ignored, especially when non-medically indicated painful and futile therapies are continued on children due to the expectation of miraculous intervention.

Lyle Schaller, the best - known church consultant in America today, uses a model of intervention and planning that is essentially mechanistic in its pattern.

BACKGROUND: Prayer is amongst the oldest and most widespread interventions used with the intention of alleviating illness and promoting good health.

We believe in the physiologic model of care, which is client - centered, respects birth as a normal life event, care is individualized and interventions only used when necessary, time charts are irrelevant, and clients are respected as autonomous and the best people to make decisions for themselves and their baby.

A meta - analysis of American interventions with very young fathers points to quality intensive community - based interventions with a good understanding of gender: the staff (who were experienced, empathetic, enthusiastic, and well connected into their communities) partnered with community organisations and used incentives to draw the young men in; they utilized needs assessments and participant feedback; developed one - on - one relationships with their young clients and provided mentoring; offered a comprehensive array of services delivered in engaging and interactive ways which incorporated teaching methods and materials appropriate to young men's culture, sex and age.

Both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) professional guidelines for best practice treatment of ADHD state that medication should be used in conjunction with psychological interventions for best over-all results.

(AACAP) professional guidelines for best practice treatment of ADHD state that medication should be used in conjunction with psychological interventions for best over-all results.

Using original content authored by Missy, as well as up - to - date, evidence - based resources, Your Birth Experience helps you understand the physiological process of Normal Birth, while also offering non-biased information about interventions and options you might encounter in your birth setting.

I was explaining to her how helpful I had found the class and that it was really good at explaining all the different equipment that they use during labor and what the different procedures were, and she was nodding but I could tell she had no intention of checking it out, because she didn't want to know about the different «interventions.»

Midwives are trained in guarding the normalcy of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, not disturbing it when all is well, knowing when to compassionately observe with loving support, and when and how to use holistic remedies, or medical intervention only when necessary as a last resort; they are also educated in prevention, assessment and treatment of complications, which most times can be managed simply and naturally, but sometimes involves consultation or referral to an obstetrician.

I discovered that CNMs or Certified Nurse Midwives are simply another cog in the hospital birthing industry's wheel and while they may have started out with good intentions, they are just as quick as any other birthing attendant to use dangerous interventions in the name of convenience and profit.

What is really being pushed on parents here is the arbitrary social idea and / or judgment that the earlier the infant does not need intervention the better (in some way for the infant and eventual child and adult) and this concept is inappropriately used as a weapon often by false claims suggesting that if an infant or child can not by some pre-determined age «self - soothe» it never will, or that something is either wrong with them, and is in need of repair, or that their parents are deficient (for not setting «boundaries»).

Natural Childbirth is the prenatal class best suited to women who are motivated to avoid or reduce the use of medications and interventions.

If the risks are simply minor discomforts (meaning, the health or life of the mother would not be damaged), it might be a better idea to bypass the use of medical interventions.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

The guidelines include interventions provided to the mother — for example steroid injections before birth, antibiotics when her water breaks before the onset of labour, and magnesium sulfate to prevent future neurological impairment of the child, as well as interventions for the newborn baby — for example thermal care, feeding support, (e.g. kangaroo mother care, when babies are stable), safe oxygen use, and other treatments to help babies breathe more easily.

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

And the counter reaction to that has been a much bigger effort done by several hospitals to make the experience better, lessen interventions, use CNMs instead of residents and provide several tools to avoid c.sections, so that you can have the safety of an early intervention without being bed ridden and forcibly tied to a monitor and an IV at the hands of OB wannabes.

In some infants early pacifier use may interfere with establishment of good breastfeeding practices, whereas in others it may indicate the presence of a breastfeeding problem that requires intervention.169

Full of weekly advice and tips, Howland covers vital pregnancy nutrition, natural remedies for common concerns, as well as the appropriate (and inappropriate) use of medical interventions.

Robin Kaplan: OK, when we come back, we'll discuss how the routine use of vacuum can affect breastfeeding as well as what to do to counteract these effects if you end up needing birth interventions.

Further to the previous question, however, will my right hon. Friend now use it as an illustration to persuade permanent members of the Security Council, such as Russia and China, that a well conducted intervention can be successfully used to restrain autocrats in countries such as Syria?

If we used some of the resources that go to fund asset accumulation amongst the better off to fund the CTF, and diverted resources from HE to early years initiatives, we could have a decent CTF and really good early years intervention programs.

Seligman's interventions aimed to boost all three of what he calls the basic types of happiness: pleasure, which includes sensory enjoyments like good food and sex; flow, the sensation of being fully absorbed in a task; and meaning, using your highest strengths in service to something larger than yourself.

Survey data gathered voluntarily from homeless youth in Los Angeles, as well as behavioral theories and observations of previous interventions, were used to build a computational model of the interventions.

To close the gap, the researchers are using technology that facilitates intervention early in the child's life and empowers parents to play a very important role: «baby's first and best teacher,» said Ashley Darcy - Mahoney, assistant professor and neonatal nurse practitioner at The George Washington University School of Nursing and director of infant research at its Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

The researchers believe that future research could focus on specific aspects of the self - expanding activities that produce this effect, as well as test the use of self - expansion activities in clinical interventions for smoking cessation.

He would like to determine whether the participants find this type of intervention helpful, easy to use, and accessible, as well as whether they will be willing to discuss sensitive issues in an online community.

«We discovered that better case management by clinicians led to fewer neonatal complications, and therefore better use of resources by the intervention group.»

«Given that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug by high school students in the U.S., having a better understanding of how marijuana use affects future SC use and vice versa is essential for designing effective prevention and intervention programs.»

«Having a more targeted intervention for the high - risk population is probably a better use of time and resources.»

«Gauging attitudes and behaviors of those providers on the front lines with respect to PrEP is a key pressure point in moving towards the routine use of effective, safe and well - targeted biomedical interventions in the fight against new HIV transmissions in the US.»

The study, published in the Journal of Gambling Studies, found that the effectiveness ofGambers Anonymous needs to be studied further, but appeared to show better rates of abstinence, improved gambling symptoms and better quality of life, especially when used in conjunction with other approaches, such as stress management intervention and cognitive behavioural therapy.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the use of estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»

«It's important to understand the cause so we can do a better job at reducing the number of cancer cases using dietary modifications or therapeutic interventions.»

Factors influencing susceptibility and resilience to developing PTSD are not yet fully understood, and identifying and understanding all these contributing factors could in future contribute to better treatments, especially since the microbiome can easily be altered with the use of prebiotics (non-digestible food substances), probiotics (live, beneficial microorganisms), and synbiotics (a combination of probiotics and prebiotics), or dietary interventions.»

«This kind of intervention study is exactly what we need more of,» says Megan Moreno, a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington who uses Facebook data to study adolescent health and well - being.

Rather than just studying people's well - being and their use of Facebook over time, the researchers performed an «intervention,» having subjects repeatedly visit a lab in Ann Arbor and use their personal Facebook accounts in specific ways.

But as lifesaving interventions grow steadily more sophisticated, the course of recovery from severe brain injury is often much better than it used to be.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

Women were highly satisfied with the telephone - delivered intervention and primarily used the program to set weekly goals regarding exercise, work, better nutrition, taking care of themselves and their homes, managing stress, and social activities.

If their intervention to reduce implicit racial bias is effective in that setting as well, they hope to develop a more consumer - friendly version of their training sessions: a fun, gamified app that could be used in schools and at home.

On the one hand providing, in a single resource, assessment criteria for use by veterinary practitioners seeking to provide the best care to their growing case load of ageing pet cats; on the other, providing a focal point for initiating future clinical research — for example, on the effects of specific interventions on ageing cats.

«Behavior represents the ultimate output of brain functions and can be used to assess the importance of specific cellular or molecular mechanisms, as well as for the evaluation of therapeutic interventions.»

Using optimal nutrition and exercise as the «' first - line» intervention in the management of chronic osteoarthritis could well constitute [the] best medical practice.»

To better understand the evidence for the use of yoga for DM2 management, researchers examined all of the published controlled trials in which yoga was used as a primary intervention for DM2 symptom reduction.

As discussed in Part II of this review, urine hormone testing using both gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GS - MS) or liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC - MS / MS) is well - established in the medical literature as a reliable method of assessing levels of active (free & conjugated) hormones and their metabolites, correlates well with patient symptoms, and reflects the beneficial impact (or lack of benefit and potentially oncogenic effect) of therapeutic interventions.43, 444 Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and enzyme - linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, also known as enzyme immunoassay [EIA]-RRB- analysis may not be accurate.