Sentences with phrase «impact of social interventions»

The researchers were surprised by the strength of these emergent effects, which were as large as or even larger than the direct effects that triggered them: «It really makes you wonder how often we underestimate the full impact of social interventions,» says Powers.

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Articles explore: the idea that violence should be thought of as a public health problem analogous to infectious disease; examine from a scientific perspective the impacts on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development of growing up in a violent community; share first - hand insights from children and caregivers; and explore various interventions, from the favelas of Recife, Brazil, to the inner cities of Chicago, Illinois, United States (US), and Glasgow, Scotland, which are offering a tangible sense of hope.

Matthew Pike is chair of the Views social impact partnership and adviser to the new Early Intervention Foundation

The team carried out a wide range of research including surveys and field - based intervention studies investigating the impact of social identity on various outcomes, including performance, stress, health and wellbeing.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

Rozelle's earlier experiments on health interventions in China had «a real impact on the lives of poor people,» says Howard White, a developmental economist with the Oslo - based Campbell Collaboration, which reviews economic and social studies.

TOPIC: The Impact of Social Media on Society This resource is two pages, the first is a blank copy that my students complete in class and the second is an «answer» sheet that I provide the students, either on the board as a reflective exercise or in hard copy for intervention purposes.

They subsequently outline the production process that leads to good evidence, explaining how the causal impact of educational and social interventions can be estimated from quantitative data.

This review indicated that interventions have a substantial impact on a variety of outcomes, including aggression and disruption, social and emotional competence, school bonding, prosocial norms, disciplinary referrals, emotional distress, and academic achievement.

Interventions that can impact skills and performance, should also reflect on the social, emotional, and financial content of employees.

«When we talk about empathy, perspective - taking, and mindfulness, those things are circulating around a broader framework of social - emotional learning,» says Associate Professor Stephanie Jones, who researches the developmental impact of school - based interventions targeting children's social - emotional skills and aggressive behavior.

The study examined the two - year experimental impacts of an integrated school - based intervention in social - emotional learning and literacy development on children's social - emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

This 20 - year randomized controlled trial examined the impact of social and emotional intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent behavior - management training with home visiting, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for 979 high - risk students in kindergarten.

Developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones, whose lab explores the impact of high - quality social - emotional interventions, helped us trace the connections between SEL and bullying prevention.

The Impact of Enhancing Students» Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta - Analysis of School - Based Universal Interventions (PDF).

Farmer, T.W., Dawes, M., Alexander, Q. and Brooks, D.S. (2016) «Challenges associated with applications and interventions: correlated constraints, shadows of synchrony, and teacher / institutional factors that impact social change.»

(Un) Commonly Connected: A Social Network Analysis of State Standards Resources for English / Language Arts AERA Open, November 2017 This article examines the results of two quasi-experimental studies of the implementation and impact of the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), an intervention designed to support secondary teachers» transition to Common Core State Standars in Enlish language arts.

They argue that exclusionary discipline practices such as suspension and expulsion can have detrimental impacts, and they discuss the use of restorative justice to address bullying Other topics include Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supporters (PBIS) and social and emotional learning.

The impact of enhancing students» social and emotional learning: A meta - analysis of school - based universal interventions.

The Impact of Enhancing Students» Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta - Analysis of School - Based Universal Interventions

The impact of enhancing social and emotional learning: A meta - analysis of school - based universal interventions.

He is particularly interested in understanding the ways in which the impacts of individual interventions vary across local educational contexts, both for insights into basic social processes and as a means to improving educational outcomes.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

As governor, I will explore the use of Social Impact Bonds for results - based care and other intervention programs serving at - risk children.

Zero Tolerance & Alternative Strategies: A Fact Sheet for Educators & Policymakers (National Association of School Psychologists) Prevalence of; problems associated with zero tolerance policies; impact on students; alternatives including violence prevention, social skills training and positive behavioral supports, early intervention strategies.

Social Ventures Australia, which directs philanthropic dollars into successful activities, has set up an education offshoot, Evidence for Learning, which ranks the impact of different interventions in school education.

A growing body of research has examined the impact on behaviour and school performance of educational, youth - development, preventive, and clinical interventions that promote social and emotional learning (SEL).

This year we are pleased to present the Nan Tobler Award for Review of the Prevention Science Literature to Dr. Joseph Durlak and Dr. Roger Weissberg for the paper entitled «The Impact of Enhancing Students» Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta - analysis of School - based Universal Interventions,» to be published in Child Development (In press).

So when we conceive of art as a productive tool for intervention we are already conceiving it as a field of collective involvement, preceding formal education, and with the intention of creating social impact.

With a preference for spontaneous, ephemeral interventions created in the public space, the artist tackles social themes like immigration, gender discrimination, the tension between modernity and tradition, and the impact of the capitalistic system on other cultures and societies.

Kicking off his multi-site project, the artist sits down with the Public Art Fund's director and chief curator, Nicholas Baume, to discuss the social impact of fences and the scope and symbolism of his citywide interventions.

The group recommends increased research on the technical potential and possible environmental impacts, but also expanded work on the ethical, legal and social implications of such interventions.

Even if, for argument's sake, there were to emerge a broad consensus that the impacts of SRM could be accurately predicted (which seems highly unlikely and endlessly contestable), the social and political impacts of such an intervention are essentially un-knowable, meaning that whatever level of physical scientific certainty or engineering know - how we might gain in this area, the whole enterprise will remain radically unpredictable and risky.

This failure to recognise extreme child welfare interventions as markers of social inequalities (and which may sometimes compound social inequalities) is not helped when the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, equates social workers «understanding of the impact of social inequalities with robbing «families of a proper sense of responsibility,....

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Impact of Neglect Children's Bureau (HHS) User Manual Series (2006) In Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention Addresses the impact of neglect on physical, intellectual, emotional, and social develoImpact of Neglect Children's Bureau (HHS) User Manual Series (2006) In Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention Addresses the impact of neglect on physical, intellectual, emotional, and social develoimpact of neglect on physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

This study is crucial for generating Australian evidence of an effective intervention to reduce the impact of social and environmental factors predisposing children to inequitable outcomes.

It is recognised that the opportunities for prevention and public health interventions will be enhanced the more we understand the early pathways to poorer health and development1 and that to have an impact on health inequalities will require us to address the social determinants of early child health, development and well - being.2 However, appropriate service and systemic improvements for reducing developmental inequalities requires an understanding of the patterns of child health and development across population groups and geographies in order to underpin a progressive universal portfolio of services.3

Advances in research methods designed to assess the impact of social settings and social networks have made such techniques available for studies of community - level interventions.

Several of the articles in this double issue specifically address issues of community milieu, school climate, social interactional variables, and other «extra-individual» influences that affect the implementation and impact of evidence - based intervention programs.

Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression with prevalence rates rising sharply from childhood to early adulthood.1 Many adult depressive disorders have their first onset in adolescence2 with longer episode duration being the strongest predictor of future problems.3 In addition to increasing the risk of later mental health problems, adolescent depression is associated with significant educational and social impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide.1 Providing effective early interventions to shorten the duration of episodes and potentially reduce the impact on later life is therefore important.3 This study explores this question and compares the effects of...

Effects of Social Support and Conflict on Parenting Among Homeless Mothers Marra, McCarthy, Lin, Ford, Rodis, & Frisman (2009) American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79 (3) Examines the impact of conflict and social support on parenting behaviors in a sample of mothers who are homeless and were involved in a study of case management interventions of varying inteSocial Support and Conflict on Parenting Among Homeless Mothers Marra, McCarthy, Lin, Ford, Rodis, & Frisman (2009) American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79 (3) Examines the impact of conflict and social support on parenting behaviors in a sample of mothers who are homeless and were involved in a study of case management interventions of varying intesocial support on parenting behaviors in a sample of mothers who are homeless and were involved in a study of case management interventions of varying intensity.

The impact of enhancing students» social and emotional learning: A meta - analysis of school - based universal interventions.

Parenting has an impact on emotional, social, and cognitive development, playing an important role in the aetiology of mental illness, educational failure, delinquency, and criminality.1 Parenting is to some extent socially patterned, 2,3 and interventions to support the development of «helpful» parenting therefore have a role to play in combating social inequalities in health.4 The best mental health and social outcomes are achieved by parents who supervise and control their children in an age appropriate way, use consistent positive discipline, communicate clearly and supportively, and show warmth, affection, encouragement, and approval.5 — 8

This review indicated that interventions have a substantial impact on a variety of outcomes, including aggression and disruption, social and emotional competence, school bonding, prosocial norms, disciplinary referrals, emotional distress, and academic achievement.

The impact of a preventive social problem solving intervention on children's coping with middle - school stressors.

These findings highlight the impact of maternal trauma on child functioning early in life, and suggest that interventions targeting depression and social support in mothers are potential ways to break the multigenerational impacts of adversity and violence.

Foster Care Re-Entry: Evidence and Implications (PDF - 430 KB) Bay Area Social Services Consortium (2008) Presents findings on risk and correlates of foster care reentry, resilience and correlates of successful reunification, and the impact of child welfare interventions and service models on reducing reentry, outcomes of kinship care are also shared.