Sentences with phrase «emotional adjustment at»

An additional finding of note was that contrary to our expectation, the majority (67 %) of the associations tested by the studies in this review did not show a significant relationship to emotional adjustment at all.

Not exact matches

The emotional damage which underlies alcoholism seems to have happened at a very early age, in many cases, and has been overlaid by many strata of comparatively normal personality adjustment.

I specialize in working with adolescents and teens struggling with various psychological and emotional adjustments in school and at home.

Children who blame themselves for their parents» fighting have also been found to be at greater risk of poor social and emotional adjustment following their parents» separation.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to: • Understand what to expect during the transition to parenthood • Understand the social - emotional needs of an infant • Create strategies to co-parent with your partner • Learn ways to improve communication • Demonstrate how to strengthen friendship, intimacy and conflict regulation skills • Recognize the signs of postpartum mood, anxiety, and adjustment disorders and be aware of support or treatment options

Kay Margetts, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Studies at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, talks about children's social, emotional and behavioural adjustment to school and the importance of early preparation by families for the best outcomes.

At 12 months there were no significant differences between the control and intervention group as regards any of the scales measuring children's emotional and behavioural adjustment.

Courts consider several factors in deciding child custody, including the child's wishes and concerns, the child's relationship with their parents, siblings, and extended family, the child's adjustment and development at home, school, and in the community, the mental, physical, and emotional health of the parents, child, and siblings, the wishes and concerns of the parents, parental abuse or neglect and parental failure to pay support.

The two were matched up by Youth Assisting Youth, an organization that links «at risk» children aged 6 to 15 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioural or cultural adjustment problems with volunteers aged 16 to 24 who can help them.

This study examined a cumulative model of risk / protective factors at the individual level (child's sense of coherence; attachment with father) and family level as manifested by fathers» emotional resources (fathers» negative / positive affect; attachment avoidance / anxiety), to explain socioemotional adjustment among children age 8 — 12 years with or without learning disabilities (LD).

In essence, this ten - session intervention is aimed at improving mothers» repertoire of parenting and disciplinary skills, and enhancing social and emotional adjustment, thereby reducing the children's behavioral and adjustment difficulties.

D) the custodial parent's psychological adjustment (maternal depression and anxiety at the beginning of the divorce process predicts later negative emotional and social adjustment in the children);

Benefits pupil behaviour and socio - emotional adjustment, particularly for those children considered to be most «at risk» for behavioural issues.

At the first stage of assessment self - report questionnaires were administered to examine the presence of maternal psychiatric symptoms (SCL -90-R), perceived social support (MSPSS), and marital adjustment (Dyadic Adjustment Scale); dyadic interactions were observed and rated with the Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, 2008) at each stage of data collectioAt the first stage of assessment self - report questionnaires were administered to examine the presence of maternal psychiatric symptoms (SCL -90-R), perceived social support (MSPSS), and marital adjustment (Dyadic Adjustment Scale); dyadic interactions were observed and rated with the Emotional Availability Scales (Biringen, 2008) at each stage of data collectioat each stage of data collection.

Conclusions: Results suggest that adolescents who experience high stress during and after pregnancy are at increased risk for difficult maternal adjustment and high postpartum emotional distress.

Papers included in this review were those reporting empirical research (cross sectional or longitudinal in design) exploring associations between a psychosocial variable and emotional adjustment, or the predictive effect of, at least one psychosocial variable on an emotional adjustment outcome measure.

Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes including maternal psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.

All three studies exploring attachment used different emotional adjustment outcome measures and all reported significant associations between at least one attachment style category and their outcome measure.