Sentences with phrase «poor emotional functioning»

Reduced parental involvement due to poor emotional functioning can have an adverse effect on the deaf child's cognitive and socioemotional development (Koester & Meadow - Orlans, 1999).

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Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

Many common reasons for fatigue include poor adrenal function, low thyroid, chronic infection, leaky gut syndrome, elevated heavy metals, toxic overload, inadequate nutrition, not breaking down foods, poor absorption of nutrients, emotional stress, depression, structural imbalances, disease, low hormones, overuse of stimulants and poor lifestyle choices.

In order to understand the importance of learning how to beat depression and improve your thought processes — you need to know that chronic negative emotional states and poor brain function can lead to more serious neurodegenerative diseases.

Of the 3 to 10 million children (aged 3 - 17 years) who witness intimate partner violence (IPV) annually, 9 a disproportionate number are aged 5 years and younger.10 Exposure to IPV in childhood is associated with altered neuroendocrine system profiles, 11 impaired socioemotional development, cognitive functioning, attachment to caregivers, and emotional regulation, and poorer physical and mental health.12 - 16

Several local agencies offer assistance programs to families who are struggling due to financial hardship, physical or emotional trauma, or poor family functioning.

However, in the general population, adolescents with above normal body mass did not report poorer emotional, school, or social functioning.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

Finally, children with impulsive or emotional symptoms may elicit more impulsive reactions from their parents to begin with, but parents with poorer executive function may have more difficulty to inhibit such reactions.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

Compared to LD, HD participants reported significantly greater shame proneness, poorer functioning on emotion regulation competencies (emotional control, self - awareness and situational responsiveness), less healthy emotion regulation strategy use (less reappraisal and greater suppression), and lower levels of guilt proneness.

In addition, mothers» attachment insecurities to their own and their children's psychological functioning (both anxiety and avoidance) at the time of diagnosis were associated with their children's emotional problems and children's poor self - image 7 years later.

Substance Abuse - experimentation is normal with teens and adolescents, however substance use that interferes with functioning is an indication of poor coping skills and emotional distress

Participants also discussed a range of developmental issues that impact on the cognitive functioning and mental health of Indigenous young people and their communities such as Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, petrol sniffing, physical and emotional violence and poor nutrition.

Poor prenatal and early postnatal nutrition is not only associated with lower cognitive function (Barker et al. 2013), but also with higher conduct problems, emotional dysregulation, and hyperactivity (Liu and Raine 2011; Jacka et al. 2013).