Sentences with phrase «harmful emotional effects»

Divorce mediation will not only save you and your spouse the considerable time and expense of an adversarial legal proceeding, but it will also shelter you and your children from the most harmful emotional effects of your divorce.

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«As well as the harmful effects of alcohol on the body, the resources address issues such as emotional wellbeing and peer pressure.

The program also addresses research evidence suggesting that the development of resilience, positive - self esteem, empathy, cooperation, friendship skills, social skills, self management skills, decision making, emotional management and conflict resolution can help to protect people from the harmful effects of bullying, as well as helping them to build positive peer relationships.

While the majority of studies on ADs during pregnancy are focused on teratogenic effects, delivery complications and neonatal toxicity, current knowledge on the potential harmful effects on child development, including autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and emotional or behavioural problems in infancy and adolescence, are very unsatisfactory.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Children are especially sensitive to word choice, so using a term like «broken» or «fractured» to describe their family's situation can have harmful effects on a child's emotional wellbeing.

There is enough consensus that exposure to violence, sexual abuse, and emotional mistreatment are harmful and likely have long - term health effects; therefore, the next generation of studies should probably focus on preventing and remediating these exposures and following up to determine whether health outcomes improve.