Sentences with phrase «increase adaptive behaviors»

I want to help clients reduce their suffering and increase adaptive behaviors and decrease the problematic ones.

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Infants with untreated torticollis may be at increased risk for early motor delay, global delay, impaired balance and coordination, delay in acquisition of gross motor skills, and reinforcement of altered movement patterns due to adaptive motor behavior.

By giving children age - appropriate duties, parents and caregivers can increase the odds that kids will be able to engage in adaptive behaviors whether or not they have a learning disability.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

Fostering more adaptive mindsets will kickstart self - reinforcing cycles of increased motivation, improved academic behaviors, increased and more sustained effort, and better performance that enable students to be ongoing agents in transforming their academic trajectory.

In his book, titled Adaptive Market, Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought, behavioral finance authority Andrew Lo argues that market forces other than investor buying and selling behavior (based on corporate earnings profits)-- such as increased demand from retirement funds — can... Read More

Stereotyped behaviors are like behavioral cancers; as they progressively increase in frequency and squeeze most useful and adaptive responses from the dog's behavior repertoire until eventually the «brain - dead» dog spends hours on end barking, pacing, chewing himself, or simply staring into space.

Treatment focuses on both increasing prosocial and adaptive behaviors, as well as decreasing or eliminating inappropriate behaviors.

Increase child's adaptive responses (e.g., coping skills) and decrease maladaptive responses (e.g., self - destructive behavior, sexual behavior problems, sexually abusive behaviors) to traumatic experiences or triggers related to traumatic experiences