Sentences with phrase «of positive health behaviors»

In contrast, those with higher plant protein intake demonstrated a clustering of positive health behaviors and had a substantially healthier diet than those with lower plant protein consumption.

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Alcohol: The Alabama Course of Study: Health Education (2003) sets the minimum content standard for teaching about the harmful effects of substance abuse and promoting positive healthful behavior in grades K - 12.

The AAP states that «although there are potential benefits from viewing some television shows, such as the promotion of positive aspects of social behavior (such as sharing, manners, and cooperation), many negative health effects also can result,» including increases in:

«This positive behavior meant that the children of light and moderate drinkers had less emotional and behavioral problems through childhood and adolescence,» Dr. Monique Robinson, from Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in West Perth, Western Australia, told Reuters Health by email.

Additionally, BabyCenter is currently participating in a number of maternal health projects around the globe including text4baby in the United States, collaboration with the Grameen Foundation in rural Ghana, and a new mobile program in India in an effort to reach underserved women and empower them to take control over their own health by implementing positive behavior changes.

Dr. Kang has helped hundreds of children, adolescents, and parents move toward positive behaviors and better mental health.

The tweets could have gone different ways: towards more positive health decisions or to risky behavior that may increase a person's chance of contracting the disease.

An instructional program for parents helps young children retain the literacy skills and positive learning behaviors acquired in Head Start through to the end of the kindergarten year, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Strategies include helping children solve problems and manage strong feelings, reinforcing positive behavior, setting clear rules and expectations, and providing effective consequences for misbehavior,» says Spring Dawson - McClure, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone and co-author of the study.

Both doctors and parents reported that they saw positive changes in all of the participants» stomach health and behavior autism symptoms that lasted eight weeks after the fecal transplant treatment was done.

Understanding your life purpose can instantly increase your self - esteem, enhance your health and well - being, support your making positive life choices, let go of stress and limited thinking and behaviors, challenge your mental blocks and performance blocks, enhance your every relationship, teach you to understand the motivations of others to enhance your family and work life, and even help you understand and easily deal with challenging or difficult people in your life.

Supporting positive health behaviors in those dealing with the emotional and physical effects of a cancer or infertility diagnosis (two of my areas of expertise) is very meaningful work.

This is a trend that creates incentive programs to stimulate positive healthy behavior change as part of employer - based health promotion programming and health care benefits.

The challenge before us is to understand why and how disadvantaged environments lead to impaired learning, poor health, and maladaptive behavior, and to use that knowledge to increase the probability of more positive outcomes for all children.

In the long run, greater social and emotional competence can increase the likelihood of high school graduation, readiness for postsecondary education, career success, positive family and work relationships, better mental health, reduced criminal behavior, and engaged citizenship (e.g., Hawkins, Kosterman, Catalano, Hill, & Abbott, 2008; Jones, Greenberg, & Crowley, 2015).

The report outlines that students who fully participate in high - quality ASES or 21st CCLC after school program gain the equivalent of up to an extra 90 days of school, and experience positive impacts on academic achievement, attendance and positive behaviors, health and nutrition, STEM learning, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

The report outlines that students who fully participate ASES or 21st CCLC after school program gain the equivalent of up to an extra 90 days of school, regular attendance in expanded learning programs increases student achievement, attendance and positive behaviors, and narrows the achievement gap, and expanded learning programs in California increase health and nutrition and offer innovative learning opportunities all year round.

Coordinated by the Boston Public Health Commission's Division of Violence Prevention, the collaborative will strengthen students» skills so that they are empowered to promote positive behaviors and healthy relationships at school and in their community.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

SPED 220 Introduction to Special Education SPED 223 Learning Environments and Differentiated Instruction SPED 224 Curriculum & Methods for Students with Moderate & Severe Intellectual Disabilities SPED 225 Introduction to Behavioral Disorders and Learning Disabilities SPED 251 Assessment, Diagnosis, and Evaluation SPED 253 Applied Behavior Analysis and Positive Behavior Support SPED 254 First Aid, Health & Safety for Individuals with Moderate & Severe Disabilities EDUC 275 Literacy Assessment and Instruction I SPED 272 School, Families, Communities and Disabilities SPED 275 Career, Vocational, and Transitional Planning SPED 276 Coordination of Cooperative Occupational Programs SPED 229 Practicum in Behavioral Disorders and / or Learning Disabilities

HB 4056 by Rep. Toni Rose / Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. enhances the list of best practices programs for addressing mental health concerns in schools by requiring the inclusion of programs and practices relating to building skills relating to managing emotions, establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and responsible decision - making; trauma - informed practices; positive school climate (including interpersonal relationships, teaching / learning practices, and organizational structures as experienced by students, parents and personnel); and positive behavior supports.

Keynote presenters include: Kirke Olson, author of «The Invisible Classroom: Relationships, Neuroscience, and Mindfulness in Schools;» Chip Brewer, The Smart Cube, Inc.; Karen Williams a writer developer of the brain - based Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Model Program curriculum Protecting You / Protecting Me, and the «brain - friendly and trauma - informed» Positive Behavior in School and Society (PBSS); and Charity Bell who has been recognized as an «Everyday Hero» by Brian Williams of NBC and featured in Good Housekeeping Magazine for her work with more than 100 foster children in Massachusetts.

From the benefits of service animals for veterans with post-traumatic stress, to increased positive social behaviors in children with autism when an animal is present, this groundbreaking research is helping the medical profession and the insurance industry understand the positive role pets play in improving human health.

Such litters can have a positive impact on a cat's general health and well - being and save thousands of cats from losing their homes and landing in shelters as a result of undiagnosed medical issues, which are often incorrectly labeled as deviant litter box behavior.

The benefits of being active include: Weight control Digestive health Restful sleep Being limber and agile Mental stimulation Positive behaviors Keeping your pets active can Read the full article...

Our Guiding Values • Compassion for cats: We focus on the individual welfare and future of each cat in need • Expertise: We strive to be experts in cat welfare, health, behavior, sheltering, and related programs • Respect for people: We treat our employees, volunteers, donors, clients, and community with respect • Impact: We have a significant and measurable positive impact on the cats in our community • Collaboration: We work with other individuals and organizations to save more lives • Integrity: We act with integrity and value transparency • Excellence: We strive for excellence in every aspect of our work

This position will provide services to patients and providers, room patients, identify and document chief complaint, allergies and medications, measure and record vital signs, weight and measurement, summarize assessment data, document and share with the provider, provide immunizations, assist with prescription refills, perform preventative health screenings and nursing treatments, assist with patient examinations, perform detailed documentation, patient and family education, obtain consents for procedures, exhibit cooperation and positive attitude toward co-workers, providers, patients and visitors, adhere to the KHC Standards of Behavior at all times with internal and external customers, promotes good public relations for the Clinic and Hospital, assure patients are seen in an orderly and fair manner and explain delays and waiting times, ensure that acutely ill or injured patients are triaged and seen first, completes required competencies annually, all other duties as assigned.

Forensic Health Services (Waterbury, CT) 7/2006 — 6/2009 Clinical Supervisor • Implemented differentiated instruction while creating and applying Positive Behavior Support Plans to provide accommodations for students on varying academic levels • Fostered the development of parent / teacher relationships to promote further at - home learning strategies • Employed a wide variety of instructional and assessment strategies

So if you are hoping your spouse will make more positive health changes, one of the best things you can do is engage in healthy behaviors yourself.

The latter are critically important for a number of positive life outcomes, including school persistence, full - time employment, lifetime wages, better health and positive social behaviors.

The book is based on research on the interaction among the various aspects of good health and intelligently weaves in the research in positive psychology on self - regulation, goal pursuit, and successful change to help people make sustainable change to their behavior.

In this direction, some recent studies investigated that children and adolescents who attended educational programs focused on the promotion of self - efficacy in life skills reduced the onset of at - risk and maladaptive behaviors (Griffin et al., 2003; Botvin & Griffin, 2004; Yankah & Aggleton, 2008; Menrath et al., 2012; Jegannathan, Dahlblom, & Kullgren, 2014): it was possible to observe a significant and positive effect for the reduction of health - risk behaviors in the intervention group, compared to control group (see Menrath et al., 2012), confirming the efficacy of school - based on life skills programs.

The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) examines that school psychologists help schools to improve academic achievement, promote positive behavior and mental health, support diverse learners, create a safe and positive school climate, strengthen family - school partnerships, and to help improve school - wide assessment and accountability for student progress in academics and behavior.

Finally, this model proposes that positive mental health is not an integral state or factored, but a process of individual development in which psychosocial factors influence the individual and generate behaviors, beliefs and learning that end in wellbeing states that in the long term facilitate the generation of a personal philosophy of life at work taken of the model leaders.

They also learn what behaviors are appropriate to expect of their children and how to practice positive discipline.35 Nicola Conners and her colleagues found that women who participated in CARES not only made gains in employment and mental health but also decreased risky behaviors and substance abuse.36 The longer the women stayed in the program, the more they improved.

In addition, programs that alter parenting behaviors such as responsivity, sensitivity, and harshness, as well as those that improve the quality of the home environment and maternal mental health, will likely also be associated with positive effects on children's well - being.

The results show that intervention through the elementary grades can have enduring positive effects on the academic development and health - risk behaviors of urban children.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

Dr. Brown's research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth with hemophilia: Theory, intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment; Heroin use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review

The health goal of the curriculum is to promote positive sexual health behaviors and beliefs among students who have participated in the Get Real middle school comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, resulting in a delay of sexual initiation, a reduction of unintended pregnancies, and higher use of protection methods.

Reviews and meta - analyses of the prevention of substance abuse (Gottfredson & Wilson, 2003; Lochman & van den Steenhoven, 2002), violence and antisocial behavior (Fagan & Catalano, 2013; Wilson, Lipsey, & Derzon, 2003), poor mental health (Greenberg et al., 2001; Hoagwood et al., 2007), and positive youth development (Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 2004) have shown that both universal and targeted prevention programs can substantially reduce the rate of problem behaviors and symptoms, as well as build protective factors that reduce further risk in child and adolescent populations.

Research has long suggested that saying «I do» to a significant other is similar to saying «I do» to better health.1 Married people — especially married men — report better health and live longer than single people.2, 3 But marriage itself is not necessarily the reason for these differences; there are many explanations for the health benefits of marriage including increased social support, improved health behaviors by folks who are married, more positive attitudes about health by the married, as well as the benefits of having a partner to help provide health insurance.4, 5

In the home visits, the nurses promoted 3 aspects of maternal functioning: (1) positive health - related behaviors during pregnancy and the early years of the child's life, (2) competent care of their children, and (3) maternal personal development (family planning, educational achievement, and participation in the workforce).

Positive self - esteem is not only seen as a basic feature of mental health, but also as a protective factor that contributes to better health and positive social behavior through its role as a buffer against the impact of negative infPositive self - esteem is not only seen as a basic feature of mental health, but also as a protective factor that contributes to better health and positive social behavior through its role as a buffer against the impact of negative infpositive social behavior through its role as a buffer against the impact of negative influences.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers (EIP) Child Trends (2010) Explores the Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers as an intense home - visiting program by nurses extending through pregnancy and 1 year after delivery and is designed to improve the health of pregnant adolescents through promoting positive maternal behaviors.

Comprehensive theoretical models of adolescent problem behavior propose risk and promotive factors at multiple levels of the social environment, including the family, peer, school, and neighborhood contexts.1 — 3 In addition, growing attention is focused on promoting positive youth development, encouraging health - promoting behavior, and investing in resources for youth.4 — 7 Thus, a holistic and comprehensive approach to optimizing adolescent development requires an understanding of factors related to both reducing problem behavior and increasing positive, competent youth behavior.

Evaluation results demonstrated both enhanced quality of care and promotion of more - favorable parenting practices related to perceptions of children's behavior at 30 to 33 months, discipline at 30 to 33 months, and health care seeking at 2 to 4 months and 30 to 33 months.4 — 7 In addition, HS reduced income disparities in the use of preventive services and enhanced parents» satisfaction with care at 30 to 33 months.8 Using observational data and a longitudinal sample, Caughy et al9 reported that participation in HS was associated with positive child development outcomes, including greater attachment and fewer child behavior problems when children were 34 to 37 months of age.

We use the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) to assess the simultaneous impact of family, school, and community risk and promotive factors on several commonly studied positive (social competence, 25,26 self - esteem, 27,28 health - promoting behavior29) and negative (externalizing and internalizing behavior, 30 academic problems31) developmental outHealth (NSCH) to assess the simultaneous impact of family, school, and community risk and promotive factors on several commonly studied positive (social competence, 25,26 self - esteem, 27,28 health - promoting behavior29) and negative (externalizing and internalizing behavior, 30 academic problems31) developmental outhealth - promoting behavior29) and negative (externalizing and internalizing behavior, 30 academic problems31) developmental outcomes.

A meta - analytic review of Fischer and colleagues [15] demonstrated positive associations between risk - glorifying media and risk taking behaviors for a number of health related risky behaviors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and reckless driving, both on the short and long term and across different research methods (experimental, correlational, longitudinal).

In this section we discuss the role of positive self - esteem as a protective factor in the context of stressors, the developmental role of negative self - esteem in mental and social problems, and the role of self - esteem in models of health behavior.