Sentences with phrase «place children at risk»

This Policy Brief outlines the implications of this critical time, identifies factors that place children at risk, and recommends a coordinated approach that addresses children's needs in order to optimise their health and wellbeing, now and into the future.

Further research should be conducted regarding factors that may emerge as early as infancy, factors that may place children at risk for subsequent behavioural and emotional problems.

If the balance tilts toward risk factors, either because they increase or because protective factors decrease, the child may lose his or her resilience... Thus, rather than believing that children who have experienced multiple moves with seemingly minimal adverse emotional consequences are resilient and somehow immune, it should be evident that disrupted caregiving may place children at risk for further trauma and consequently decrease the child's capacity for resilience.»

Further, an understanding that social development is influenced by culture may aid host communities to develop sources of information (and possibly intervention) for parents (and children) whose belief systems may place children at risk for rejection, exclusion, discrimination, and victimization by members of the host community or country.

Our latest Policy Brief outlines the implications of this critical time, identifies factors that place children at risk, and recommends a coordinated approach that addresses children's needs in order to optimise their health and wellbeing, now and into the future.

In contrast, mothers who already have children or who were enrolled postnatally may already be acting on ingrained patterns of poor parenting that place their children at risk.

The unfit parent is also unlikely to believe that their issues place their children at risk, which would prevent them from being awarded legal or physical custody of their children, absent some guidance from the court and their own attorney.

The scale of natural disasters has also increased because of deforestation, environmental degradation, urbanization, and intensified climate variables.20 The distinctive health, behavioral, and psychosocial needs of children subject them to unique risks from these events.21 Extreme weather events place children at risk for injury, 22 loss of or separation from caregivers, 21 exposure to infectious diseases, 23 and a uniquely high risk of mental health consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and adjustment disorder.24 Disasters can cause irrevocable harm to children through devastation of their homes, schools, and neighborhoods, all of which contribute to their physiologic and cognitive development.25

Oral language impairments also place children at risk for difficulties in reading comprehension.

«We believe and have fear that this staff reduction would strain agency workers who are already overburdened and potentially place children at risk,» she said.

No one wants to place their children at risk and all of us strive to do the best we can.

Lynn, dressed in all black and wearing a priest collar, listened intently as Coelho argued that he knowingly covered up incidents of sexual abuse, including alleged acts by Brennan, and «ignored common sense and placed children at risk.»

The investigations revealed that the schools identified provided a sub-standard education, placed children at risk and undermined the government's effort to ensure all schools promoted British values.

Instead, the trial judge was required to make a finding that unsupervised access placed the children at risk for serious harm before a trial court may order a parent to have supervised visitation with his or her children.

«In other words, it does not matter where you go in Canada, no parent will be allowed to place a child at risk and / or infringe upon that child's rights with impunity.»

Objective: Maltreatment, family violence, and disruption in primary caregiver attachment in childhood may constitute a developmental form of trauma that places children at risk for multiple psychiatric and medical diagnoses that often are refractory to well - established evidence - based mental health treatments.

Conceptualized as separate constructs, temperament can either place a child at risk for developing anxiety or influence the stability or severity of anxiety disorders once they have emerged.10 Alternately, these terms may simply refer to different aspects of the same underlying construct with distinctions between them simply imposed from the field.21

These effects not only determine physical health but also emotional and cognitive development.3 — 5 Maternal separation and nonbonding have a significant impact on early brain development, which places children at risk of emotional and cognitive deficit.

For example, a child who experiences maltreatment may develop primary emotional responses such as anxiety or fear.5 Ever vigilant for signs of threat, the child may display aggressive or submissive behaviours as a means of self - protection, and such behaviours may place the child at risk for future status as a bully or victim.

Though they lack an extensive academic background, which places their children at risk for low education, their positive attitude manifested in daily pro-educational behaviors overcomes their low education level because they both motivate their children to pursue academic success and participate in their children's learning.

While divorce itself places children at risk for various psychological difficulties, research has shown that the strongest predictor of child maladjustment after divorce is exposure to high levels of inter-parental conflict, particularly when the conflict is hostile, aggressive, poorly resolved, and focused on issues pertaining to the children.

The family should be supported to carry out the plan, unless it would place the child at risk of significant harm.

Poor regulatory abilities often place the child at risk of developing pathologies such as disruptive behaviour problems or ADHD.9 In relation to behaviour problems, it is important to distinguish between reactive aggression (emotionally - driven conduct problems) and proactive aggression (unprovoked, unemotional aggression that is used for personal gain or to influence and coerce others).

In other words, when the state places any child at risk of failing at human connection, we are effecting an irreparable harm.

Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes including maternal psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.

The research reviewed thus far indicates that: 1) having positive peer relationships is developmentally important for all children, whether ADHD or not; 2) low acceptance or rejection by peers places children at risk for a host of serious negative outcomes; 3) peer impairment is present in both boys and girls with ADHD; 4) once rejected, overcoming a negative reputation with peers is extremely difficult; 5) once labeled «ADHD» by peers, a negative process is set in motion whereby children suffer more negative treatment by peers; and 6) treatment of peer problems in children with ADHD is extremely difficult — we have yet to identify a treatment method that normalizes the peer functioning of children with ADHD.

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Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Christians have successfully eroded child protection laws for so called faith healing placing childrens lives at risk.

There are many uses for such a questionnaire, such as: a) helping place at - risk children (e.g., abused, neglected, diagnosed) with safe and nurturing parents, b) potentially reducing the number of failed adoption placements, c) protecting children from at - risk adults, and d) screening foster / adoptive families to reduce the possibility of abuse and / or neglect.

Parents and coaches should be aware that being involved in sports may place their children at greater risk for excessive alcohol use and the many problems that can result.

Because some of these problems may place my child or myself at risk, transfer to a physician or hospital may be necessary.

Rather than dismissing schoolyard bullying as «a phase» that children will eventually outgrow, parents have the unique opportunity to alter these behaviors by helping young children overcome the very fears, anxieties, and insecurity that place them at risk.

There isn't data confirming the safety or lack of safety of bed - sharing multiples, but other studies have shown that bed - sharing with other children places an infant at higher risk of SIDS.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

Poor oral motor skills places a child at a greater risk for having difficulty saying certain speech sounds.

On the other hand, families with authoritarian or permissive parenting tend to have children who do less well in school, have lower self - efficacy, less self - control, and lower self - esteem — placing these children more at risk when dealing with life's adversities.

Formula - fed babies are at risk for the introduction of solid food too early in life (3 to 4 months old), and early solid food introduction places children at a higher risk of obesity later in life.

«Children will also grab dogs and not recognize warning signs such as a growl or a snarl, placing them at higher risk for bites,» he says.

Moms who struggle with addiction, incarceration, domestic violence, mental illness, homelessness or other challenges are at a high risk of having their child removed and placed in foster care.

Poor nutrition during these critical growth and developmental periods places infants and children at risk of impaired emotional and cognitive development and adverse health outcomes.

These are children at immediate risk of being placed in institutional care.

Local gay rights advocates and supporters described programs designed to turn gay teens straight as programs that engage in mental and spiritual child abuse, promote self - hatred and place LGBT teens at high risk for suicide.

«We have children's lives that are being placed at risk.

The $ 1 million contract audited by the comptroller involved preventive services: home visits and counselling to families that the Department of Social Services has determined are at risk of having children placed in foster care because of child abuse or neglect.

Nine «communities of concern» have been identified in Erie County as places «where children are at exceptionally high risk for lead poisoning.»

Previous research cited in the study suggests that children placed in special education are at higher risk for dropping out of school and for committing crimes as adults.

Prolonged exposure to aggression between parents was also linked to children's ability to regulate their own feelings of sadness, withdrawal, and fear, placing them at greater risk for symptoms of anxiety and depression later on.

«Given that supine sleep positioning significantly reduces an infant's risk for SIDS, it is worrisome that only two - thirds of full - term infants born in the U.S. are being placed back - to - sleep,» said lead author Sunah S. Hwang, MD, MPH, FAAP, a neonatologist at Boston Children's Hospital and South Shore Hospital, and instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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