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A spokesperson for Bercow told the Mail on Sunday: «The Speaker doesn't expect MPs to be Trappist monks, but he would like to open a discussion about improving behaviour at PMQs.»

There is a grimly predictable ritual that takes place in British politics whereby all party leaders declare themselves in favour of improving behaviour at prime minister's questions, while doing everything they can to encourage the opposite.

It will improve their behaviour at the table, too.

Not exact matches

Baby Milk Action informed the UN Global Compact Office that, while it would continue to copy the Office into its ongoing «dialogue» with Nestlé and encourage the Office to exclude Nestlé, the correspondence with the Office had demonstrated that it was incapable or unwilling to take any action to stop the violations and that far from improving corporate behaviour it was, in this instance at least, complicit in allowing violations to continue by providing legitimacy to misleading reports — which it refused to evaluate — and public relations cover.

Some proponents of sleep training that I have had contact with say, or imply at the very least, that sleep training is beneficial because it can prevent sleep problems and therefore improve behaviour, concentration and / or quality of life for the child.

Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt problems.

The study suggests that interventions aimed at improving parent - child interaction in the early postnatal period may be beneficial to the child's behaviour later in life.

Ms Blears said: «There isn't a single service or development in Britain which hasn't been improved by actively involving local people who are best placed to spot problems and come up with ideas to solve them, whether it's tackling antsocial behaviour or litter, or providing more services at a time people want them.

Improving everyone's quality of life includes looking at how people treat each other, he argued, including tackling bad behaviour.

He added he is «determined» to continually review and improve the party's culture and processes to «make sure that we reach the gold standard of how to protect volunteers and staff at every level of the party from harassment and inappropriate behaviour».

Toby Jayaratne, a specialist in health behaviour at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, worries that some people will adopt a fatalistic attitude if told that they have a genetic predisposition to a particular disease, and become less likely to act to improve their health.

In a study published in the journal Environment & Behaviour, a team of researchers at the Universities of Plymouth, Exeter and Birmingham worked with Torrington Dental Practice in Devon to find out whether experiences like these could improve the patient's experience during routine dental procedures, such as fillings and tooth extractions.

«Our results support previous arguments for interventions aimed at improving the eating behaviours of preschool - aged children,» write the authors.

In collaboration with Zoe Kinias, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, and Sigal Barsade, the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Hafenbrack conducted four studies to test the idea that mindfulness meditation could improve decision - making by increasing resistance to the sunk - cost bias.

The researchers found that prisoners after a ten - week yoga course reported improved mood, reduced stress and were better at a task related to behaviour control than those who continued in their normal prison routine.

Those data, to be collected this year and next, could improve climate models, which account poorly for these atmospheric interactions and contain «horrific» uncertainties about the levels and behaviour of water vapour at stratospheric altitudes, Austin says.

Co-author Professor Richard Marais, director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute at The University of Manchester, said: «Understanding the complex behaviour of melanoma cells is vital to improving survival.

The breakfast clubs also significantly improved behaviour and concentration, and reduced absences — and did so at around one - tenth of the cost per pupil of universal free school meals.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

Pupils at six Bridgend county primary schools have improved their behaviour and learnt how to be nicer to each other thanks to programme delivered by children's charity Barnardo's.

This free CPD is an in - depth and stimulating look at how and why students behave the way they do and what we, as educators, can do to improve their behaviour.

Improved behaviour strategies, particularly those targeted at individual young people who are persistently misbehaving

And Rosemary Pritchard, deputy headteacher at St Margaret Ward Catholic secondary academy in Stoke - on - Trent, said pupils» behaviour had improved since staff were trained in emotion coaching and pupils learnt about the basic neuroscience of emotion.

According to Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of London's Institute of Education, and a former teacher, the evidence suggests that most new teachers improve for the first two to three years of their career, as they learn how to manage classroom behaviour, and then stop improving.

The impact of mobile phones on pupils» behaviour in lessons is to be investigated as part of a wider inquiry aimed at improving teachers» classroom management.

But I am weak and a sucker for rewards, and I now marvel at their brilliance: by using a carrot rather than a stick, the automakers improve our behaviour which, in turn, improves range which, in turn, makes the car that more useful.

To further improve its sporting behaviour, the new 911 GT3 RS comes for the first time with a purpose - built and specially set up PASM suspension, with wider track not only at the rear, but also on the front axle.

Stop and think how to improve your Dogs behaviour and you will be surprised at what you come up without reading about online Dog training.

The paper looked at the importance of understanding human behaviour to improve workplace culture and productivity in mines.

I firmly believe if he was to spend some time with us, or indeed, any claimant clinical negligence practice, going through some of the cases we deal with; taking a proper look at the investigation that is often necessary; taking on board the hurdles we have to overcome in order to bring a successful action and was briefed on the defendants» behaviour, that he would gain an understanding of the negligence encountered by patients, the tactics employed by defendants and on a more positive note, witness the direct changes to NHS procedures and improved outcomes as a result of litigation.

Practitioners of Rational - Emotive Behaviour Therapy therefore encourage the pursuit of «responsible hedonism,» seeking a balance between short - and long - term personally meaningful goals that improve the young offender's world or, at least, cause it no undue harm.

Conclusions Interventions offered to at - risk families in the first year of the child's life appear to improve child behaviour, parent — child relationship and maternal sensitivity post-intervention, but not child cognitive development and internalising or externalising behaviour.

FLNP49 is a structured, manualised course comprising of an introductory «coffee morning», followed by 10 weekly 2 h sessions for groups of 6 — 10 parents which aims to help parents understand and manage feelings and behaviour, improve relationships at home and in school, improve emotional health and well - being and develop the self - confidence and self - esteem which are essential for effective parenting and learning.

This free live webinar also looks at new parenting behaviour, and ways to improve communication and problem - solving skills with other significant adults in your child's life.

Drawing directly from personal experience, this book suggests ways to improve behaviour of children with ADHD both in the classroom and at home.

At 1 year, the preventive programme led to improved outcomes for child social cognition and reading (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.54, p ≤ 0.04); child peer relations and social competence (effect sizes 0.27 to 0.28, p < 0.02); parenting behaviour (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.32, p ≤ 0.03); and child aggressive and disruptive behaviour (effect sizes 0.26 to 0.31, p ≤ 0.02) compared with no intervention; the effect sizes are shown for outcomes with ≥ 80 % follow up.

In children at high risk of developing long term antisocial behaviour, the Fast Track preventive programme improved some measures of social, emotional, behavioural functioning, and academic skills at 1 year

My colleagues and I have focused our research program on parent support of vulnerable groups and have found, through the use of randomized control trials, that systematic interventions directed at parenting behaviours improve parental contingency in low - income parents and in adolescent mothers.12, 13 Similarly, we have found that systematic intervention on family problem - solving behaviour, what Trivette and Dunst call participatory help - giving practice, also improves contingency of parent - child interactions.14

Design (and evaluate) prevention and intervention programs to promote a secure parent - infant attachment relationship in order to improve developmental outcomes of infants and children who are at risk for poor developmental outcomes and prevent behaviour problems and psychopathology.

At the final assessment significant subjective improvement («much improved» or «very much improved») was reported by 60 % (18/30) of the patients who received cognitive behaviour therapy and 23 % (7/30) of the patients who had only medical care.

It has been shown that these children's behaviour also improves significantly after their parents have implemented the skills learned at training sessions.

However, the potential of universal prevention in early childhood to improve mental health remains largely unexplored.2 5 7 We previously published short - term outcomes at toddler age11 of the first cluster randomised trial of a truly universal early parenting programme, Toddlers Without Tears, designed to be offered to all parents in the community and aiming to prevent externalising behaviours using anticipatory guidance before any developmental onset.

At 1 - year follow - up, initial treatment effects on child behaviour problems were maintained, while parenting continued to improve.

As well as the broad aims of improving pupil and teacher well - being, Changing behaviour in schools also looks at teaching practices that will strengthen the connection to school and learning for at - risk pupils.

The Doodle Den programme also made a positive impact on improving concentration and reducing problem behaviours in school, according to findings from the randomised controlled evaluation conducted by the Centre for Effective Education at Queen's University Belfast.

The children of parents in the parenting - focused groups improved in positive self - image, and were less likely to show shy, withdrawn, depressed behaviour at school.

Attempts at improving caregiver sensitivity have been largely through targeting caregiver representations and / or caregiver behaviour during interactions with their children.5 However, while caregiver sensitivity is linked to the organized types of attachment (secure, avoidant, resistant), it may not be as robustly linked to disorganized attachment.6 Thus, attachment - based interventions that target child - caregiver interactions to date may not have focused on the most clinically significant caregiver behaviours to prevent or reduce disorganized attachment.

An assessment of the mediating role of maternal behaviour in interventions aimed at improving child socioemotional and cognitive development