Sentences with phrase «competent adults»

Many perfectly competent adults face feelings of extreme confusion and overwhelm with a new baby.

The premise of social and emotional learning is simple: If students are exposed to positive, supportive school environments and personnel (including socially and emotionally competent adults, from bus drivers to teachers), and are equipped with social - emotional models that can help them navigate their lives, they will be in a better position to learn and thrive.

Trusting relationships foster the social - emotional skills — confidence, persistence, self - regulation, attentiveness, and ability to form relationships — that set infants and toddlers on the path to being enthusiastic learners, productive workers, and emotionally competent adults.

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) notes, «While great diversity exists in children's adjustment to divorce, and a majority of children weather the transition and become competent adults, up to a quarter of children whose parents divorce experience ongoing emotional and behavior difficulties.»

There are managers who want to be asked for permission, but they tend to be (a) overly controlling managers who don't trust that they've hired competent adults or (b) in jobs where scheduling and coverage is a big thing that needs to be managed centrally.

In Carter v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5, [2015] 1 SCR 331, for example, the Court struck down the criminal prohibition of physician - assisted dying, finding that it violated the s. 7 rights of competent adults seeking such assistance as a result of a grievous and irremediable medical condition causing enduring and intolerable suffering, and that this violation was not justified under s. 1.

Restricting access to competent adults with no option of advanced consent could potentially infringe an individual's right to life, liberty and security in Section 7 as well as an individual's right not to be discriminated against based on disability in Section 15 (1);

The first stage would grant access of physician - assisted death to competent adults 18 years or older and the second stage would grant access of physician - assisted death to competent «mature minors» to come in to force no later than three years later.

The Supreme Court of Canada previously said that physician - assisted dying should be available to competent adults who clearly consent to the termination of life and have a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition.

Within the challenge, the BCCLA is seeking to give seriously and incurably ill, mentally competent adults the right to receive medical assistance to hasten death under certain specific safeguards.

The BCCLA believes that every Canadian should have the choice to have what they consider to be a good death, including the option of a medically assisted death for seriously and incurably ill, mentally competent adults.

The Supreme Court was clear that the ruling only applies to competent adults who clearly consent to the termination of life and who have a grievous and irremediable condition that causes enduring, intolerable suffering.

In October the issue was before the Supreme Court again and on February 6 of this year, they unanimously decided to lift the ban against competent adults with irreversible medical conditions having a physician assist with terminating their lives when they are too physically disabled to do so themselves.

She has spent more than 30 years helping children develop into confident and competent adults.

Are charter schools, online providers, and private and parochial schools all afraid they will not get access to public funds if parents recognize that they too are aimed at neural rewiring «to produce knowledgeable and competent adults able to participate as informed citizens in the democratic process»?

To make the transition from school to adult life and the world of work, adolescents and young adults need support from caring competent adults.

As if the level of humor in the film wasn't enough to insult the audience, we are asked to believe that competent adults would believe that this freakish looking person is a baby.

«Mentally competent adults should be able to engage in cognitive enhancement using drugs,» they wrote.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that competent adults suffering from a «grievous and irremediable medical condition» should be able to access assisted dying.

The large majority of Britons, including Christians, believe that mentally competent adults who are permanently incapacitated and suffering unbearably, as well as those who are terminally ill, should be able to seek medical assistance to end their life with dignity.

The bill, sponsored by Sens. Diane Savino and Brad Hoylman, would create a process that would allow the terminally ill, but mentally competent adults to obtain a medication that would ultimately bring about a «peaceful and humane death.»

We want to establish the right to a doctor - assisted death for mentally competent adults who are suffering incurably, permanently incapacitated, or who have made a clear and informed decision to end their life but are unable to do so independently.

In the last few years the campaign to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults has been increasing in momentum.

«So long as there are strict safeguards, it is our moral duty as a society to give assistance to mentally competent adults who are suffering incurably, permanently incapacitated, and have made a clear and informed decision to end their life but are unable to do so independently.

«So long as there are strict safeguards, it is our moral duty as a society to give assistance to mentally competent adults who are suffering incurably, permanently incapacitated, and have made a clear and informed decision to end their life but are unable to do so independently,» BHA chief executive Andrew Copson said.

Her goal is teach children to become self - disciplined and competent adults.

Pushing and over-scheduling prevent them from becoming competent adults capable of the resilience, perseverance, motivation and grit that business leaders say they'll need to compete in tomorrow's workforce.

They'll never be successful, competent adults now!»

Equally a Rational mother, believing in the value of efficient education to produce competent adults, may become impatient with a Guardian child who wants rules and guidelines, and is happier learning step by step.

Choices about birth and breastfeeding do not have much, if any, impact on whether children will become healthy, happy and competent adults.

The most competent adults children see may be Cap’n Crunch, Ronald McDonald and Lingerie Barbie.

But in a real sense, the moment the government began to mandate specific health and safety decisions of competent adults, the healthcare debate ended.

And what is the «rational basis» for limiting the class to those who are «terminally ill» or to mentally competent adults?

A market freedom perspective typically rests upon the presumption of capacity to consent, on the part of competent adults, in normal circumstances.

No one can force a mentally competent adult to seek medical care.

Snowplow parents forget that their principle job is not to make sure that a child is successful, but to make sure that a child becomes a competent adult; the success will follow if it is merited.

State - sanctioned coercion of medical procedures on pregnant women or any other competent adult is not only unacceptable but it is also unlawful in other jurisdictions, such as the USA and the UK (Re AC [1990] & Re S [1998]-RRB-.

What's funny to me is, i feel that providers who treat me like a competent adult instead of protecting my feelings ARE showing respect for me as a human being.

Medical ethicists and the public alike accept that a mentally competent adult who is terminally ill or in intractable pain has the right to choose to be removed from a ventilator or to refuse tube feedings and hydration — a view which American courts have so far upheld.

One on one relationships with a caring, competent adult can elevate a student's academic performance and his or her career aspirations.

They should never be allowed with the puppy unsupervised by a competent adult.

Whatever the case, «proper» socialization is supervised by a competent adult who is aware of the risks and knows how to maximize the potential of the encounters.

Unlike Cook et al., Oreskes was not only a mentally competent adult but (nominally) a scientist, so she didn't even have the excuse of naivete.

Section 241 (b) and s. 14 of the Criminal Code unjustifiably infringe s. 7 of the Charter and are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physician - assisted death for a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition.

Health Care Power of Attorney: A document in which a competent adult grants another person the authority to make Healthcare decisions for him or her.

(a) to recognise the right of a mentally competent adult who is suffering intolerably from a terminal illness to request a medical practitioner to provide medical services that allows the person to end his or her life peacefully, humanely and with dignity; and (b) to grant a medical practitioner who provides such services immunity from liability in civil, criminal and disciplinary proceedings.

Any competent adult or financial institution can be appointed power of attorney.

As discussed in our previous blog posts, the Supreme Court of Canada declared, on February 6, 2015, that the prohibition on physician - assisted death in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional as it violated the s. 7 Charter rights of competent adult persons who have grievous and irremediable medical conditions: Carter v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5 («Carter»).

The SCC has found the Criminal Code provision prohibiting physician - assisted suicide unconstitutional, due to its violating the s. 7 Charter rights of competent adult persons with grievous and irremediable medical conditions causing them enduring and intolerable suffering: Carter v. Canada (Attorney...

It is a well - known principle in English law that a competent adult's refusal to treatment can not be overridden — no matter how unwise or incomprehensible that decision may be.