Sentences with phrase «general social functioning»

Changes in PTSD and depressive symptoms over treatment accounted for 29 % of the variance in reduction of reported health problems and 30 % of the variance in improvement of general social functioning.

MFTs are relationship specialists trained to assess and treat individuals, couples and families to achieve more satisfying relationships in their personal and work life as well as their general social functioning.»

Not exact matches

Changes in the nature of religious television in the 1960s and 1970s can therefore be seen to have been a function of a historical coincidence of a number of related factors: social conditions, government regulation, audience response, and general trends in religious culture.

The «functions» for which theological schools are to prepare future clergy are determined by the expectations of the membership of «mainline» white Protestant churches, and in general that membership expects ministerial leadership to be «successful» and «efficient» (Brown, 55) in helping them to preserve their social status and cultural roles in a nation that is entering a future marked by unprecedented urbanization, technological change, and massive social planning (Kelly, 230 - 31).

Momentarily considered, then, the saint may waste his tenderness and be the dupe and victim of his charitable fever, but the general function of his charity in social evolution is vital and essential.

«We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time as assessed by the Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology (QIDS), as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group,» said Dr. Uebelacker.

Brain regions that contribute to optimal social functioning also are vital to general intelligence and to emotional intelligence.

Therapeutic groups designed to build your child's motor skills, sensory processing, social skills, executive functioning, and general well - being through nature play.

Some breeds as a whole take longer to reach social maturity (golden retrievers, labrador retrievers, standard poodles), while others are more open lifelong in general (scent hounds as a group tend toward being dog social lifelong as a function of how they were bred to work in groups for humans).

Therapeutic groups designed to build your child's motor skills, sensory processing, social skills, executive functioning, and general well - being through nature play.

Whether highlighting in illuminated letters the five «rights of man» under Islam, or deconstructing Shaker furniture, his work frequently turns the specific into the general, thereby testing its function as a form of social representation.

He is also interested in general meanings and social functions specific motifs or objects may have, which he explored in his pieces on five «rights of man» under Islam, and Shaker furniture.

It is certainly understandable that the objective of general deterrence is «particularly applicable to public welfare offences where it is essential for the proper functioning of our society for citizens at large to expect that basic rules are established and enforced to protect the physical, economic and social welfare of the public.»

The Chief Justice held that s. 6 of the Act protects both the functioning and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a general court of appeal for Canada, at para. 49: «The purpose of s. 6 is to ensure not only civil law training and experience on the Court, but also to ensure that Quebec's distinct legal traditions and social values are represented on the Court, thereby enhancing the confidence of the people of Quebec in the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of their rights.»

Frank Dassler has been the German multinational corporation's group general counsel since 2004 and, in addition to overseeing all legal affairs, is also responsible for the compliance, social and environmental affairs, risk management and government relations functions.

Therapeutic groups designed to build your child's motor skills, sensory processing, social skills, executive functioning, and general well - being through nature play.

The General Assembly has empowered and authorized 32 the Georgia Composite Medical Board, the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and 33 the Georgia Composite Board of Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and 34 Family Therapists to fulfill these responsibilities and expects them to work together to assure 35 a continuum of professional services that ensure appropriate diagnostic and assessment 36 functions for each profession and the psychotherapeutic and counseling treatment services 37 appropriate to each profession.

As general practice and health service providers, counseling psychologists address the emotional, social, work, school, and physical health concerns of individuals and focus on how people function both personally and within their relationships.

Frequency of suicide attempts and acts of self harm, number and duration of inpatient admissions, service utilisation, and self reported measures of depression, anxiety, general symptom distress, interpersonal functioning, and social adjustment.

Although the other two factors did not increase vulnerability to interpersonal NLEs or dysphoric mood, «lack of social self - confidence» worsened general functioning, and «assertion of autonomy» led to poor functioning in close relationships, both directly.

Ultimately, our handholding paradigm has provided a unique opportunity to test some of the proposed mechanisms of social support in general, and EFT in particular, all at the level of brain function, in vivo.

We assessed outcomes in target problems, general psychiatric symptoms, and social functioning.

Four dimensions of health - related quality of life were measured: general health (self - reported general health), physical health (absence or presence of functional limitations and illness symptoms), emotional health (the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and Rosenberg's self - esteem scale), and a school and social functioning scale.

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were inclusocial functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were inclusocial functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were incluSocial Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

However, in the general population, adolescents with above normal body mass did not report poorer emotional, school, or social functioning.

For STPP, the pre — follow - up effectsizes were stable (target problems, 1.44 vs 1.57; general psychiatric symptoms, 0.91 vs 0.95; social functioning, 0.89 vs 1.19).

This was also true for CBT (target problems, 1.37 vs 1.33; general psychiatric symptoms, 1.01 vs 0.97; social functioning, 0.97 vs 1.05).

Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).

Separate effect sizes were determined for targeted symptoms, general symptoms, and social functioning.

Results Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

Measures of effect size from pretreatment levels showed that short term psychotherapy improved targeted symptoms (17 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), general symptoms (15 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero), and social functioning (11 studies, p < 0.01 for post-treatment effect size v zero).

Effect sizes were calculated for target problems, general psychiatric symptoms, and social functioning using the data published in the original studies.

Checklist subsections most relevant to depression were: observed depressed mood; depressed thinking; loss of interest; social interaction and communication; appetite and weight loss; and general functioning.

Between - group comparisons showed that short term psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual (p < 0.01 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general symptoms and social functioning) but there was no difference between short term and other forms of psychotherapy (15 studies, p = 0.69 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general and social functioning).

Thus, among students with high social support, general family functioning was a significant determinant of self - esteem.

When these students reported a high level of social support, those with a low score of general family function reported a higher level in self - esteem.

In contrast, at low levels of social support, general family function did not influence self - esteem.

These results suggest that social support moderated the relationship between general family functioning and self - esteem.

To illustrate the general family functioning × social support interaction for self - esteem in the grandparenting group, we plotted the regression of self - esteem on general family functioning at high and low levels of social support (see Figure 1).

According to the procedures posed by Aiken and West (1991), we used the simple slope for the regression of self - esteem on general family function by using the high (one standard deviation above the mean) and low (one standard deviation below the mean) values for social support.

Therapeutic groups designed to build your child's motor skills, sensory processing, social skills, executive functioning, and general well - being through nature play.

Perceived social support refers to «an individual's perceptions of general support or specific supportive behaviors (available or acted on) from people in their social network, which enhances their functioning and / or may buffer them from adverse outcomes» (Demaray & Malecki, 2002, pp. 306 - 307).

VPO major functions are: (a) Coordination of the development, implementation, and evaluation of two major programs: the ACT / Raising Safe Kids Program (parenting skills training and child maltreatment prevention program) and The Effective Providers for Child Victims of Violence Program (training for mental health and other professionals on trauma, assessment tools and treatment models for children victimized by violence); (b) Development of training and educational materials, technical assistance and training to professionals and organizations participating in both programs; (c) Dissemination of research - based knowledge, information, and materials to professionals and the general public on violence, prevention and related topics through Web (www.actagainstviolence.apa.org), Facebook page www.Facebook.com/ACTRaisingSafeKids and other social media outlets; (d) Collaboration with other national associations, national collaboratives, and federal agencies to promote the contributions of psychology and psychologists to the understanding and prevention of violence.

There was a significant increase in the FamTh - G in quality of life in terms of general health perception, vitality, social functioning, emotional problems, and emotional health.

Parents completed the Home Situations Questionnaire (HSQ), Weschler Preschool and Primary Intelligence Scale (WPPIS), General Functioning Scale of the Family Assessment Device, Social Provisions Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale.

Mental exercising through simple socializing: Social interaction promotes general cognitive functioning.

4) Quality of life defined as subjective evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life covered physical functioning, occupational role, interpersonal relationships and psychological functioning, measured by validated standardized including General Quality of Life Inventory -74 - GQOLI - 74 which measured physical functioning, psychological functioning, social functioning, and standard of living; Well - Being scale - WBS, measure positive aspects of psychological functioning.

Alsosee: Odent, Michele «The Scientification of Love,» Free Association Books / London / New York, 1999; Janov, Arthur, «The Biology of Love; «Prometheus Books, New York, 2000; Lewis, Thomas, Amini, Fari, & Lannon, Richard, «A General Theory of Love,» Random House, New York, 2000; Pearce, Joseph Chilton, «The Biology of Transcendence,» Inner Traditions - Bear & Co., 2002; Heath, R. G. (1975): «Maternal - social deprivation and abnormal brain development: Disorders of emotional and social behavior,» In Brain Function and Malnutrition: Neuropsychological Methods of Assessment (Prescott, J.W., Read, M.S., & Coursin, D.B., Eds).

Low levels of wellbeing are associated with social isolation in the general population (Kinderman et al. 2015), and it possible that child behaviour difficulties lead to greater isolation and impact on caregivers» overall functioning, over and above other child and family factors.