Sentences with phrase «focused interventions such»

Targets of future couple - focused interventions such as self - care and use of social support are discussed.

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With a caring, supportive, strengths - based focus, and a touch of humor, Colleen uses a variety of approaches and interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Play Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness and Harm Reduction Strategies in order to help clients achieve their goals, feel empowered and realize their full potential.

Her treatment approach focuses intervention in the natural setting such as home, community and school to promote speech generalization.

Despite this promise, very little research or intervention efforts have focused on sports settings compared with research in other settings such as school and after - school programs.

Early intervention focuses on helping eligible babies and toddlers learn the basic and brand - new skills that typically develop during the first three years of life, such as:

«Currently, breastfeeding promotion focuses on encouraging women to breastfeed without providing the necessary economic and social conditions such as supportive health - care systems, adequate maternity entitlements and workplace interventions, counselling, and education», says Dr Rollins [1].

«Tailored interventions to reduce driver distraction could focus on at - risk groups, such as young males with bad attitudes to distracted driving and a low belief that they can control their distraction,» he concludes.

Specific interventions should focus upon improving the decision - making skills of adolescents for engaging in gambling activities and techniques to negotiate safer sex attitudes with potential sexual partners, such as using condoms.

However, the new findings suggest that a brief intervention focused on automatic attitudes could be useful as one aspect of marriage counseling or as a resource for couples in difficult long - distance situations, such as soldiers.

Now that we know what is going wrong with their decision making, we can look at developing treatments, for example using psychotherapy focused on forward planning or interventions such as medication which target the shift towards habitual choices.»

While improving access to interventions such as ART, condoms and lubricant for sex workers needs to be an urgent priority for health policymakers across the world, the Series shows that a focus on providing greater coverage of biomedical interventions will not be enough.

She has developed and tested social and emotional learning interventions focused on games such as «Red Light, Purple Light,» which is similar to «Red Light, Green Light.»

Our group focuses on developing pharmaceutical and immunological strategies to reduce HIV - 1 persistence, and on evaluating such interventions in clinical studies.

Our group has focused on understanding the immune effects of transfusion and how these are modulated by interventions such as pathogen reduction technologies.

Loggia said that means a lot of the focus has been placed on pain management, with patients turning to interventions such as painkillers (opioids) as well as yoga and cognitive behavioral therapy.

A major research focus should be on how metabolic interventions such as a ketogenic diet can ameliorate common, comorbid, and difficult - to - treat conditions such as pain and inflammation.

We could find plenty of examples of disconnect from other policy interventions, such as pre-school programs, but I am focusing on school choice because I know this literature best.

While a focus on socialization does not preclude long - term effects, kindergarten programs lacked features of some targeted interventions — such as parental involvement and health services — that may be critical to their success.

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

However, the story really changes if, instead of tying early career performance to dismissals, you focus on a policy intervention such as targeted supports.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

Khan adds that freed up class time allows teachers to focus on more important things such as «interventions, simulations, Socratic dialogue, and projects.»

«If you don't have your fundamental needs fulfilled — needs such as safety and hunger — then it's much harder to focus on higher - order concerns or issues and other interventions may not be as effective as they could have been otherwise.»

The secondary version covers: • Leading literacy across the school • Reading for enjoyment and wider reading • Developing teachers» reading approaches and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to read through interventions such as phonics • Writing engagement and enjoyment • Developing teachers» writing knowledge and pedagogy • Supporting pupils struggling to write — spelling, punctuation and grammar • Developing spoken language skills This sample section focuses on leading literacy across the school.

Dr David Armstrong, PwC partner and one of the authors of the independent report said the review provided evidence that the activities of the Achieving Schools programme were effective: «If we focus on wider outcomes, such as improving self - esteem and confidence, and interventions that seek to address poor behaviour, these can contribute to achieving emotional intelligence in children and young people.

With good focus on the key factors and processes implicated in resilience and by leveraging appropriate sites (such as schools), methods, and points in a child's life, the outcomes of structured resilience interventions are likely to be optimised.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

But they maintain that these interventions should focus on noncognitive outcomes, such as social skills, work habits, and motivation, which are more malleable at that age than cognitive skills.

Such students will benefit from daily intervention lessons of about 30 minutes each that focus on the specific area of need shown on the s2i Report.

As such, our study was an important stepping stone in our larger research agenda focused on developing interventions and supports to promote Native students» school outcomes.

Amie's research interests focus on the prevention of problem behaviors in youth, with a particular focus on identifying malleable risk and protective factors associated with the development of problem behaviors, and examining the impact of evidence - based interventions on reducing or preventing the development of such behaviors within low - income populations.

This was a particularly noteworthy statement, considering that in almost every breakout slot there was at least one session related to closure or revocation, with topics such as «By the Numbers: What Do We Know About School Closure Around the Country», «Building a Closure Plan Focused on Kids», «When and How to Revoke a Charter», and «Interventions for Struggling Schools».

Other approaches, such as Parental engagement and Social and emotional learning programmes, are often associated with reported improvements in school ethos or discipline, but are not included in this summary which is limited to interventions that focus directly on behaviour.

Focus areas range from academic disciplines (K — 12 math, science, world languages, and so on) to specific programs (such as library media, guidance, or Response to Intervention) to approaches that promote deeper thinking (such as the extent to which critical thinking is embedded in a district's curriculum).

This faulty thinking also leads to misguided intervention decisions, such as focusing school resources primarily on the «bubble kids» who are slightly below proficient.

Of course, better detection and early intervention strategies have led to more intensive and focused assistance at an earlier age, but the digital tools available for the patient's support community — especially tablets such as the iPad that have literally hundreds of apps that can enable special needs users — have also meant greater educational access, more inclusion in social settings, and unheard of independence for people with autism.

In such cases, government intervention might be warranted, provided it is carefully focused to have the greatest impact.

We focus our research on investigations of animal agriculture, 2 but this intervention is also used to document animal abuse in other areas, such as laboratory research that involves live animals3 and the breeding of companion animals.4 We believe that undercover investigations have had significant direct effects in reducing farm animal suffering through corporate policy change.

This webinar focuses on chronic medical pain conditions, such as those resulting from trauma, surgical intervention, degenerative disease (osteoarthritis), and neurologic impairments in cats and dogs.

Anarchive promotes awareness and provides the memory of an essential part of contemporary artistic practice: facilities, activities, videos, performances, interventions in public space, thus stimulating a critical and experimental approach of current technologies, such is the dual focus of this collection.

Sequences is an independent biennial that aims to produce and present progressive visual art with special focus on time - based mediums, such as performance, sonic works, video and public interventions.

Focus on transformational action: «Ensure that renewable and efficient solutions are emphasized rather than false solutions that fail to produce the results and protection we need, such as carbon markets in land and soil, dangerous geoengineering interventions, and more.»

UNHCR interventions will focus on increasing the integration of refugee response programmes with comprehensive national and regional protection and development frameworks; enhancing productive and coping mechanisms of refugee and host communities; and strengthening resilience through partnerships and innovative approaches such as cash - based interventions and other self - reliance initiatives in close cooperation with governments, humanitarian and development actors, civil society and the private sector.

• Instrumental in executing therapeutic interventions such as structural, strategic, solution - focused, CBT, emotionally - focused couple's therapy.

This includes for example a focus on prevention and early intervention programs, such as Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria's Sisters Day Out program or Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service's Kunga Stopping Violence Project.

Dr. Francisco's approach is family - focused with an emphasis on action - oriented interventions such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and skills training in the areas of Social Communication, Executive Functioning, and Independent Living.

Resource - oriented psychotherapy focuses on current concerns and tries to strengthen personal skills in order to achieve set goals.37 Self - management therapy has a long tradition in the treatment of depression, 38 and elements such as behavioural goal setting or activity monitoring are frequently applied in blended interventions.39 40 Finally, psychoeducational cognitive - behavioural group therapy has recently been applied in a stepped care service model41 within the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.

This review focuses on interventions for adult mothers; studies with young mothers were excluded, including central studies such as the Olds et al 63 studies of Nurse Family Partnership.

Caregiver - focused groups were rated as providing skills such as information and support that reduced the negative appraisal of caregiving, decreased uncertainty and lessened hopelessness, while also teaching skills to cope with the stresses of caregiving.66 This supports suggestions that such groups might give caregivers the chance to openly interact with other caregivers in the absence of their care recipients.57 Moreover, in a systematic review of psychosocial interventions, group based or otherwise, caregivers listed the most useful aspect of interventions as regular interactions with a professional, providing the chance to openly communicate issues with them, and as a time to talk about feelings and questions related to cancer.13, 66

The findings also suggest that such interventions need to focus specifically on assertive or intrusive maternal behaviors and not simply on prompting in general.