Sentences with phrase «meaningful interventions in»

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The intervention comes amid concern among Remain - backing MPs that they will not be given a «meaningful» vote in October.

When we give a child a diagnostic label without opportunity to make sense of the behavior in the context of relationships, we miss an opportunity for prevention and meaningful intervention

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to continue to offer meaningful and purposeful interventions in Nigeria's higher education institutions...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to continue to offer meaningful and purposeful interventions in Nigeria's higher education institutions to realise government's desire to create knowledge based economy.

On the contrary: what sealed Labour's fate was more likely his only meaningful intervention, when he pointed out that there could be no cap on immigration as long as Britain remained in the EU.

The beneficiaries stated that with the new intervention of «Opon Imo» in education sector, public school students have been given a meaningful recognition and equal assessment with their counterparts in private schools.

Meanwhile, the monarchs who early commended the leadership and members of the State Police Community Relations Committee, PCRC for their prompt security intervention in the state, said their productive and proactive contributions towards the actualization of a secured state had yielded meaningful results in years past.

That massive impulse blacked out the entire power grid in Quebec in 92 seconds, giving operators «no time to even assess what was happening to the power system, let alone provide any meaningful human intervention,» said John Kappenman, author of a January 2010 report by Metatech Corp. prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

«Computerized cognitive training is a more feasible, portable and efficient intervention than we've had in the past and is likely to result in meaningful improvement in the cognitive problems survivors experience,» she said.

A telephone - delivered intervention, which included automated symptom monitoring, produced clinically meaningful improvements in chronic musculoskeletal pain compared to usual care, according to a study in the July 16 issue of JAMA.

Despite the worse status of the intervention group at baseline, the study showed a trend for improvement in quality of life at three months and clinically meaningful improvement at four months.

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

«Now that spinal stimulation has been successful in four out of four patients, there is evidence to suggest a large cohort of individuals, previously with little realistic hope of any meaningful recovery from spinal cord injury, may benefit from this intervention.»

Quality of life was significantly higher in participants randomized to the intervention group, who demonstrated a statistically and clinically meaningful increase in QOL at 12 weeks (P <.05 using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test).31, 32 Median survival was almost 5 months longer in the intervention group.

The results indicate the Between the Lions television series could be a meaningful part of reading interventions and is potentially most beneficial in kindergarten.

In general, a finding of meaningful long - term outcomes of an early childhood intervention is more likely when the program is old, or small, or a multi-year intervention, and evaluated with something other than a well - implemented RCT.

And they should hold them accountable if they aren't proposing meaningful interventions that ramp up in ambition, depending on whether or not the school makes progress.

Dr. Geoffrey Borman's recent meta - analysis of student achievement outcomes in 29 leading CSR models found that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations.»

The districts developed surveys for the student self - reports to be «measurable in less than 20 minutes, meaningful to academic and life outcomes, and malleable through school - based interventions,» according to Martin West of Harvard University's graduate school of education.

The Office of Special Education Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disabilities.

They are also creating the infrastructure for testing research - based interventions and for sharing their learning in meaningful, usable ways with networks of personalized learning educators.

Disnarda Funes and her fellow resource teachers are developing meaningful interventions and supports for students struggling in their math classrooms.

The intervention involved direct teaching of word meanings; teaching and raising awareness of words with multiple meanings; systemic teaching of word analysis skills including roots and affixes; engaging students in word games, riddles, and other activities designed to promote deeper understanding and use of the words in new and meaningful contexts; and finding the words outside of school.

According to John Hattie, acceleration is highly effective, coming in near the top of his ranked list of influences on student achievement, while enrichment does not reach the «hinge point» at which an intervention has a meaningful effect on achievement.

For example, a 2002 systematic analysis by Dr. Geoffrey Borman and his colleagues of the student achievement outcomes of 29 leading K - 12 CSR models — most of which operated in Title 1 schools — reported that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations» (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2002, p. 33).

This is where the importance of disaggregation comes into play because in order to provide meaningful interventions, schools need to clearly name and identify how groups of students are underperforming.

Whether students are on grade - level, require intervention, or are ready for additional challenges, DreamBox Learning ® Math empowers teachers to reach, teach, and engage all students in meaningful math learning that prepares them for success in Algebra 1 and beyond.

The purpose of the RtI ² framework is to increase access, participation and meaningful progress in the core curriculum for all students, while simultaneously emphasizing early intervention for students experiencing difficulties.

Today Gober's poignant intervention is made even more meaningful by its place in history; it was created precisely 20 years before the Times allowed announcements for gay marriages to run in its «Vows» section.

Enclosed in a distinctive jute - fibre canvas pouch, the artist book provides a meaningful entry point to Ibrahim Mahama's ground - breaking interventions.

These positions are entrenched, reflecting vastly opposing ideologies in relation to both climate change and international relations, thus precluding any meaningful intervention.

(c) Useful contribution without causing injustice: The Court was not satisfied that the proposed intervention would assist in any meaningful way.

I believe wholly in «coordinated care» which is why I ensure that I maintain meaningful relationships with my patients» healthcare providers so that the effectiveness of both types of medical intervention programs is optimal.

I look for those areas and use research based interventions in order to help couples build their friendship, understand negative cycles in their conflict and communication, and work on overcoming damaging patterns in their relationships so that they can create a meaningful life together.»

Existing SNHV trials show relatively modest effects (effect sizes of 0.2 — 0.4 SDs) for outcomes such as child mental health and behaviour, and cognitive and language development, from infancy to mid - childhood.19 While effect sizes of 0.25 — 0.3 SDs can be meaningful and impactful at the whole of population level, 59 targeted public health interventions such as SNHV include a cost and intensity such that larger effects in the short - to - medium term might be necessary to justify implementation at a population level.

There was, however, a clinically meaningful difference in the mental development of children of mothers who were psychosocially distressed antenatally in the comparison group, who had poorer mental development compared with their intervention group counterparts.

The Intervention to prevent Depressive symptoms and promote well - being in EArly - stage dementia (IDEA) programme supports people with dementia and their family carers in identifying and scheduling enjoyable and meaningful activities.

Meaningful reductions in child problem behaviors occurred over 5 months providing promising support for the intervention.

This course «presents a framework for understanding personality disorders in children, distinguishing them from more frequently diagnosed problems, and delivering effective interventions... Strategies are described for integrating individual psychotherapy, family treatment, and pharmacotherapy to provide meaningful help to this highly challenging population».

Intervention effected significant and clinically meaningful symptomatic amelioration in OCD, depression, and anxiety symptoms.

Calma said the ATSISPEP report now needs a «meaningful implementation plan» but he also expressed hope that the Federal Government would not «just charge off» with a unilateral response as the Howard Government did with the controversial Northern Territory Intervention in response to the landmark Little Children are Sacred report.

Although the use of negative discipline strategies was low, we believe that reductions in yelling in anger, threatening, slapping in the face, and spanking with an object are meaningful given the associations of early discipline strategies with later socioemotional development, mental health, and parent - child relationships.30 These treatment effects were observed in families who participated in a universal intervention broadly focused on development and behavior.

Clinical videos will illustrate how various interventions promote change and healing with the following issues: Beliefs and attitudes Attachment security in children and adults Traumatic emotions, behaviors, mindsets, and brain / biochemistry Self - regulation Communication and resilience Family dynamics Controlling, defiant and resistant clients Through video case studies, presentation and discussion, you will leave this seminar with practical and effective techniques you can use to help clients achieve symptom reduction, fulfilling lives and meaningful relationships.

The implications of this study are many: (1) it shows that empirically supported treatments developed in the Western world can be adapted, applied and tested in developing countries; (2) it shows that the adaptations of interventions, when done systematically and thoughtfully in collaboration with members of the targeted population, can be translated into culturally meaningful treatments; and (3) it provides preliminary evidence that a group model of interpersonal psychotherapy can be effective in treating a depression - like syndrome in adolescents who have been affected by war and poverty.

While Bernstein thinks the study's findings are meaningful and could potentially serve as a model for schools, he says that collectively getting a school system, teachers, parents and students all motivated enough to take part in an intervention like Fast Track is challenging.

The first wave of indicated prevention (targeting those showing early signs and symptoms) and early intervention (those with full - syndrome disorder) studies for borderline personality disorder in adolescence are notable for challenging fears about diagnosing and treating borderline personality disorder in young people, and demonstrating that appropriate diagnosis and intervention can lead to clinically meaningful improvements for patients.

Universal interventions in mental health promotion in schools are increasingly gaining salience as schools seek to provide more relevant and meaningful education matched to the realities of the twenty first century.