Sentences with phrase «less child behaviour»

Using mothers» reports of child behaviour and parenting practices, mothers in the SD group reported significantly less child behaviour problems, less use of dysfunctional discipline strategies, and greater parenting competence than mothers in the WL group.

Not exact matches

Feinberg et al (under review) and Feinberg and Kan (2008) have found that when the couple are supported to develop positive «co-parenting», mothers are less depressed, boys exhibit fewer «externalising» behaviour problems at ages three and seven, and children of both sexes and at both these ages, exhibit fewer «internalizing» problems.

• Similarly, when the father's behaviour / personality characteristics are very negative, children are less badly affected when they do not live with their fathers / spend very little time with them (Jaffee et al, 2003).

Good parenting by fathers is associated with better mental health in children, higher quality of later relationships, less criminality, better school attendance and behaviour, and better examination results.»

Given that poor communication skills are strongly correlated with violent behaviour in men, it seems likely that a father with poor language skills will be more likely to act violently towards both his partner and his children; or for family interactions to be less productive and pleasant.

Studies show most home school students have fewer «problem behaviours,» when in mixed groups (of home schooled children and non-home schooled children), and home schooled children are much more likely to be better developed socially, more capable of functioning in the real adult world, and less affected by negative peer pressure.

By understanding that children are impulsive by nature and that they will grow and learn with time to be less so, we as parents need no longer feel the need to jump to punishment for behaviour that is completely age appropriate.

Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

After playing this fun game your child gets to release the stress and tension that caused their behaviour so it's less likely to happen in the future.

In their children, parents identified improved mood, confidence and being less withdrawn, a reduction in guilt and self - blame, reduced depression, anxiety and anger, improved sleep patterns and better understanding of appropriate sexual behaviour.

Out of all the children, boys, children from larger families, as well as those with more cognitive, motor or behaviour problems, and poorer parent - infant relationships in infancy, had fewer friends, met them less and were less accepted by them.

While we know from other research that teacher - student relationships are important for younger children in relation to learning and student development, much less was known about the specific effects on behaviours and even more specifically in adolescence.

Lead author of the study, Professor Bob Hancox said the exposure to microbes as a result of these behaviours may alter immune functions, resulting in the children becoming less prone to allergy.

And should it dawn on us that our behaviours don't match our beliefs — that we're not doing our bit to save the planet, even though we think we should — we find it far easier to adjust the belief (downgrading the importance of climate change) than the behaviour (flying less, having fewer children).

As an elementary teacher, teaching students with less extreme behaviours, I used complicated reward systems with bonus coupons that could be cashed in for rewards and privileges, praise, verbal reprimands at times, and sometimes resorted to the school version of time - outs — sending a child to the principal's office.

I have heard from other single adopters who have had to reduce their working hours, or take on less skilled employment because they are struggling with their child's behaviour.

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

Results were summarised for child development (behaviour, cognitive development, psychomotor development and communication / language) and parent — child relationship (relationship, sensitivity and attachment classification) outcomes for the following assessment times: postintervention (PI — immediately after intervention ending), short - term (ST — less than 6 months after intervention ending), medium - term (MT — 7 — 12 months after intervention ending) and long - term (LT — more than 12 months after intervention ending) follow - up.

The reductions in aggressive behaviour reported here could be attributable to change in the school's management of child behaviour or an increase in extracurricular activities which may, themselves, have preventive effects.4 None the less, the effects of reducing media exposure and its effect in combination with other effective school based programmes5, 6 merit additional studies.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

Their children tend to display more behavioural problems and less prosocial behaviour than children born to mothers with higher family incomes.1 - 13 To what extent and in what ways income differences may be the cause of children's behavioural problems are therefore crucial research and policy questions.

Talk less, listen more: Solutions for children's difficult behaviour.

Behaviour scores of preschool children are less stable over time than those in older children and changes may therefore be more difficult to detect.

In the discussion, lead author Martina Zemp and colleagues explore the idea that fathers may be less sensitive to child problem behaviours than mothers because they spend comparatively less time with their children.

Around the country, children also showed more helping behaviours and patience, as well as less anxiety and aggression.

The findings suggest that may be the case, with participation in Group Triple P leading to parents becoming more satisfied with their child's academic performance and the children showing less problem behaviours related to learning, according to the parents.

Planning ahead can be a powerful behaviour management tool to help you and your child get through challenging situations with less stress.

The costs to society of childhood behaviour problems (the most common form of mental illness in children) is high.8 It has been proposed that there is an urgent priority to shift from reactive intervention to prevention, since the later the intervention, the costlier and less effective it is.9

Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting list control design, and as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.

Understanding the meaning behind this behaviour and responding appropriately assists the child to manage their emotions and experience less distress (e.g., by speaking softly to the child about their feelings, stroking their hair and providing a comforting hug).

Children may express their responses through a range of behaviours, including withdrawing, performing less well or better than usual at school, behavioural problems or feelings of sickness such as headaches or stomach aches.

Specifically, children were reported as engaging significantly less intensely in significantly fewer difficult behaviours following parent and carer training.

Understanding the meaning behind this behaviour and responding appropriately assists the child to manage their emotions and experience less distress (eg by speaking softly to the child about their feelings, stroking their hair and providing a comforting hug).

Children in Sure Start local areas were more likely to be immunised, less likely to have accidents requiring treatment, and had significantly higher scores on measures of positive social behaviour and independence / self - regulation.4

«Psychological control can limit a child's independence and leave them less able to regulate their own behaviour.»

A child designated with a moderate behaviour label will receive less service than a child who is categorized as severe.

As well as reporting reduced symptoms of emotional distress and difficult behaviour in their children, parents in counties where Triple P was delivered were also more likely to use appropriate discipline strategies, their levels of psychological distress were less and they were more likely to find parenting a good experience.

Studies have shown repeatedly that maternal depression is linked with less optimal parenting and less secure mother - child attachment.5, 15,16 Depressed mothers are more likely to be inconsistent, lax, withdrawn or intrusive, and ineffective in their parenting and child discipline behaviour.

Allowing children flexibility and freedom may result in positive outcomes when children live in safe areas and their peers are less likely to engage in dangerous behaviour, but in high - risk neighbourhoods, higher degrees of parental control might be necessary.

Although children who have been maltreated show different brain activity in response to facial emotion than nonmaltreated children, 22 we know little about children's neural processing of a wide variety of parenting behaviours, and we know even less about temperament - related differences in such neural processing.

Eron et al concluded that without early family treatment, aggressive behaviour in children «crystallises» by the age of 8, making future learning and behavioural problems less responsive to treatment and more likely to become chronic.5 Yet recent projections suggest that fewer than 10 % of young children who need treatment for conduct problems ever receive it, 6 and an even smaller percentage receive empirically validated treatments.

Children whose parents receive mentoring are likely to have a higher IQ and less health and behaviour problems, a new early childhood programme has found.

Although much research has focused on differential reports of child behaviour, discrepancies between parent and teacher reports of children's school readiness are less explored.

Parents in families with higher adversity scores were less likely to have a warm relationship with their child, to share joint activities, to have low conflict and avoid smacking and to exercise control over their child's behaviour.

Children who were reported to have higher levels of adversity were more likely to have poorer health outcomes - particularly poorer mental and dental health - and less healthy behaviour - higher screen time, lower fruit and vegetable consumption and greater snacking.

Of course, this body of research does not really explain why certain behaviours are problematic or stressors for parents and families.2 Moreover, parent distress may be the antecedent rather than the outcome of child behaviour problems: High parent distress is associated with less optimal parenting and more negative parent - child interaction which, in turn, predicts child behaviour problems.

Taylor et al argue that the important facets of positive parenting are undermined by the presence of certain socioeconomic conditions, in particular that unemployment, low income, and lack of social support is associated with more punitive and coercive discipline, more rejecting, less warm behaviours, and more aggressive parenting strategies affecting the behavioural, educational, and social development of children.

It might also help to know that children of all ages who have good communication with their parents and talk with them about what they're doing are less likely to engage in antisocial behaviour.

Third, although there are some data about various child and family characteristics that predict outcome (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, severity of child behaviour, maternal adjustment problems, treatment barriers), there has been a relative dearth of attention paid to a) the actual processes of change that are induced by PMT and b) whether there are certain subgroups (e.g., based on child gender or minority status or family socioeconomic status) for whom PMT is more or less effective.15 - 17