When you are in therapy with Kent, you can expect to feel safe... safe enough to honestly acknowledge and accept your feelings, challenge yourself to rise above your pain and creatively take
healthy emotional risks to empower and improve your life.
Not exact matches
Although unforeseen events and emergencies can occur in any birth setting, some of which can be best handled in a high
risk hospital, a low
risk healthy woman entering the typical U.S. hospital expecting a normal vaginal birth is subjected to a routine barrage of procedures and interventions that dramatically increase the
risk of complications and problems, with potentially longstanding physical and
emotional ramifications for both mother and baby.
«The new science of fatherhood shows that fathers have very strong
emotional and even physical connections with their children that are very important for their children's
healthy developments and even for lowering their
risk of disease and obesity and for supporting their mental health,» he says.
Teens suffering from severe behavioral issues are at
risk for jeopardizing their
emotional development as well as their ability to maintain
healthy relationships.
Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and
emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience
emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater
risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering
healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.
During the training that is intense and involves having a partner with you, women are taught how to use exercise, a good diet, relaxation, and
emotional support, in order to have a
healthy, low -
risk pregnancy and give birth without an epidural or other common pain management drugs.
Children and young people should: keep themselves fit through regular physical activity; have a positive self - image; talk about the benefits to their health through participation in physical outdoor activities; adopt a
healthy lifestyle, including
healthy eating appropriate to the demands of their activities; understand the
risks to fitness and health posed by smoking, alcohol and drugs, and set an example in their own lifestyle; walk or cycle where this is a realistic and safe option, or take other regular exercise; want to continue their interest in outdoor activities beyond school and into adult life; independently participate in follow up courses where these are available; understand how much exercise is required to remain
healthy; and are aware of the links between physical and
emotional well - being.
I believe it is important to find creative and
healthy ways to help children, teens, adults, couples and their families to solve problems and move forward in their lives.I have experience working with children, teens, adults and families who have experienced childhood complex trauma and traumatic changes / situations and loss in their lives, working with «At
Risk» youth and their families, adoptive and foster youth and children with severe
emotional and behavioral problems.»
The effect of the nurses and paraprofessionals on responsive mother - child interaction indicates that the program was operating as intended in helping parents provide more sensitive and responsive care for their children, which is thought to promote secure attachment and
healthy emotional and behavioral development.49 The reductions in subsequent pregnancies and increases in interpregnancy intervals are particularly important as short interpregnancy intervals increase the
risk of child maltreatment (including infant homicide among teen parents) 50 and compromise families» economic self - sufficiency.51
Healthy Women,
Healthy Futures aims to improve the physical,
emotional, social, dental, and vision health of low - income, at -
risk mothers before they become pregnant again, as a strategy to reduce rates of LBW and infant mortality.
I specialize in treating at -
risk children and teens that suffer from behavioral /
emotional issues that prevent
healthy development.»
Early childhood mental health consultants promote
healthy development by working to support social and
emotional wellness in all young children and make every effort to prevent the occurrence or escalation of social and
emotional problems in children at -
risk.
Identify the indicators of
healthy social and
emotional development as well as potential
risk for problems in social and
emotional development in young children ages birth to twelve months.
Each section of this module begins with a table listing
healthy social and
emotional indicators for a particular age range, related to social health and attachment, and
emotional health and regulation as well as vignettes to illustrate
healthy and at -
risk behavior.
The focus on social and
emotional learning offers students a regular opportunity to share deeper parts of their identity creating a caring, safe environment that strengthens relationships and offers
healthy risk - taking opportunities.
McDonough is a data manager who has worked on several projects at MDRC: Supporting
Healthy Marriage (SHM) is an evaluation of marriage education programs targeting low - income, racially and ethnically diverse married couples; Head Start CARES (Classroom - based Approaches and Resources for Emotion and Social skill promotion) is a national evaluation of three evidence - based strategies to improve the social and
emotional development of children in Head Start; the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) aims to build knowledge about the effectiveness of the new federally funded Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home - Visiting Program (MIECHV) in improving outcomes for at -
risk children and families.
Finding and staying in a
healthy relationship requires the ability to take
emotional risks and this trait is associated with high self - esteem.
Al's Pals: Kids Making
Healthy Choices is an early childhood curriculum designed to increase the protective factor of social and
emotional competence in young children and to decrease the
risk factor of early and persistent aggression or antisocial behavior.
Organized to serve the public purpose of advocating the
healthy development of children, it is the mission of CRC to minimize the
emotional, physical and economic abuse, neglect and distress of children and the development of at -
risk behaviors following relationship breakups between parents involved in highly conflicted marital disputes.
The researchers show how important the
emotional work is to
healthy relationships; partners with a gender imbalance with
emotional work tended to see an erosion of the marriage, which «posed a health
risk to women and helped explain gender differences in psychological distress.»
Designed to provide research - based information to parents and early childhood professionals on interventions associated with the
healthy mental, behavioral, communication, early literacy, and social -
emotional state of young children with or at
risk for developmental disabilities.