One study compared two active interventions: group and individual.42 The authors found no difference between the two
interventions on cognitive development, psychomotor development or the parent — child relationship.
Not exact matches
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.
Their work was published in an article, «New Evidence About Language and
Cognitive Development Based
on a Longitudinal Study: Hypotheses for
Intervention» in the online edition of the American Psychologist.
Sharafeldin recently received a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society career
development award that will support her future research at UAB
on intervention strategies to improve
cognitive function in transplant recipients.
Offering specific
interventions, the book focuses
on boys physical, emotional,
cognitive, and social
development and the unique problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD, and postadolescent males.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Children and foster parents were randomly assigned to receive the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch - up (ABC)
intervention or to a comparison group which received the Developmental Education for Families (DEF) program which focuses
on cognitive and language
development.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Children and foster parents were randomly assigned to receive with the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch - up (ABC)
intervention or to a comparison group which received the Developmental Education for Families (DEF) program which focuses
on cognitive and language
development.
Experiences in the first 1000 days of life have a crucial influence
on child
development and health.1 Appropriate early child
development (including physical, social and emotional, language and
cognitive domains) has consistently been shown to be associated with good health and educational outcomes in childhood and consequent health and employment outcomes in adulthood.2 — 4 Adopting a life course approach, including early
intervention, is essential, 5 and investment is therefore needed in effective prenatal and postnatal services to optimise child health, well - being and developmental resilience.6
In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and
cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the
intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced
cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the
intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects
on children's
cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large
cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107
Much of the research and
development work in the sex offender field has focused
on adult sex offenders and has centered
on the
development of actuarial risk protocols, behavioural -
cognitive intervention programmes and relapse prevention programmes.
From a community health and public policy perspective, about half of the effect of family income
on children's
cognitive ability is the home environment.46 Thus,
interventions to improve
cognitive development in low - income children must focus
on the parents» mental health and their ability to provide the children with adequate learning opportunities.
Care and
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on smacking / Children's voices / Children's work and child labour / Choices in caring / Choices for youth / Circular effect behavior / Clare Winnicott / Class teacher / Classroom meetings / Clear thought / Client self - determination / Clinical application of humour / Coaching approach / Coercion / Coercion and compliance (1) / Coercion and compliance (2) /
Cognitive - behavioral
interventions and anger /
Cognitive skills / Collaboration / Commissioner for children / Commitment to care / Common needs / Common profession?
The meta - analysis
on cognitive development included five studies (online supplementary figure 3).27 46 — 48 55 There was no significant difference between
intervention and control groups (d = 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.08 to 0.41).
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
Maternal postnatal depression (PND) is common with a prevalence in the developed world of around 13 % 1 and a far higher prevalence in some developing world contexts.2, 3,4 There is a considerable body of evidence attesting to the fact that PND limits a mother's capacity to engage positively with her infant, with several studies showing that PND compromises child
cognitive, behavioural and emotional
development.5 It has proved difficult to predict PND antenatally6 and, in any event, preventive
interventions have largely proved ineffective.7 Research and clinical attention has, therefore, been focused
on the treatment of manifest PND.
To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care
on language,
cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of
interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in
cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.
Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health Similar results are linked to weekly
interventions by home visiting professionals; their visits focus
on parenting skills and encouraging
development of
cognitive and social - emotional skills.
Yet while many recent preschool
interventions have been found to have short - term effects
on young children's language, literacy, mathematics, executive function, and social - emotional
development, studies show that impacts
on cognitive and academic skills tend to diminish in early elementary school — a phenomenon commonly known as fade - out or convergence.
Intensive, high - quality, center - based child care
interventions that provide learning experiences directly to the young child have a positive effect
on early learning,
cognitive and language
development, and school achievement.
A cluster - randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of delaying onset of adolescent substance abuse
on cognitive development and addiction following a selective, personality - targeted
intervention programme: the Co-Venture trial.
We recommend that future research focus
on the following three areas: (1)
development of standardized measures of skill acquisition and utilization from a «common elements» perspective that can used across EBTs; (2) assessment of the predictors, correlates, and outcomes associated with skill acquisition and utilization; and (3)
development of innovative
interventions to enhance the acquisition and utilization of
cognitive - behavioral and parent management skills.