Sentences with phrase «positive maternal child»

This is the key to a child's development, as many researchers and clinicians feel that a positive maternal child bond helps to form the basis for future relationships.

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While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

While many families have extremely positive experiences after adopting the younger child, there are many families who try very hard to force the child into their arms for comfort and nurturing when the child's innate capabilities for this type of infant - maternal attachment are not yet formed.

For instance, in a study of American children (aged 9 - 11 years), researchers found that kids with secure attachment relationships — and greater levels of maternal support — showed «higher levels of positive mood, more constructive coping, and better regulation of emotion in the classroom.»

But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

It has a positive impact on childhood obesity, infections and allergies, is linked to a lower likelihood of mothers getting ovarian or breast cancers later in life and to a more positive maternal - child relationship.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The positive impact of sustained high levels of maternal responsivity from toddlerhood through middle childhood was true even for children with more autistic symptoms and lower nonverbal cognitive development levels.

These include a new «at - risk» code in Oregon that allows young children to receive Medicaid - covered mental health services before they have a full - blown mental health disorder; Medicaid coverage in Oregon and Michigan for evidence - based parenting programs that can help parents learn parenting practices that promote a positive parent - child relationship and address challenging child behavior; and extensive training and support for pediatricians in Minnesota who want to conduct maternal depression screening during well - child visits and respond appropriately when the screen indicates that the mother needs further evaluation and support.

Participating families had lower rates of maternal anxiety and safer home environments than other families, and they showed more positive parenting behaviors, such as comforting or reading to their child.

When we analysed the association between maternal free sugar intake and the number of positive reactions to cat, grass and dust mite allergens, we observed a stronger association for children with two or more positive reactions (table 5).

The evidence is irrefutable, whether you look at the positive impact on poverty alleviation, child and maternal health, HIV prevention, later age of marriage, income, productivity, civic engagement.

Maternal depression and early positive parenting predict future conduct problems in young children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder.

Studies conducted on different populations have generally demonstrated that parenting support programmes encourage positive parenting practices, strengthen parent — child relationships and promote the mental health of parents.11 — 17 Previous studies have linked parenting support programmes with an improvement of parents» sense of competence, 18 19 which, in turn, has an impact on parents» mental health.20 According to Bandura's theory on self - efficacy, stronger self - efficacy in child rearing leads to better satisfaction in parenting and decreased stress and depression.21 Some studies have found a positive relationship between parents» sense of competence and parenting behaviour22 and that increased maternal self - efficacy is associated with decreased depressive symptoms in postpartum mothers.23 To date, it is unclear whether parenting support programmes are effective in improving the mental health of parents directly or via increased self - efficacy and satisfaction in the parenting role.

The success of home visiting programs is often measured by positive long - term outcomes such as improved school readiness, maternal and child health, and decreases in family violence.

Study findings show that home visits can impart positive benefits to families by way of influencing maternal parenting practices, the quality of the child's home environment, and children's development.

Furthermore, mothers who did not receive help from the child's father with parenting duties were 1.19 times as likely (95 % CI, 1.05 - 1.35) to screen positive for maternal depression than mothers who did receive help from the child's father.

Thus, it seems that the active involvement of the father in the child's upbringing may decrease positive maternal depression screens somewhat.

Having a large number of children in the home (ie, ≥ 4) vs having only 1 child in the home significantly elevated the risk of a positive maternal depression screen (OR, 1.29; 95 % CI, 1.07 - 1.57).

In 1986, Olds et al published the results of a rigorous trial showing that nurse home visitation extending from pregnancy to the child's second birthday can produce positive effects on maternal and child health among disadvantaged families.1, 2 The study was conducted in a semirural area and involved predominantly white women.

The effect was small, but was identified in the whole program group, instead of only in a smaller subgroup.86 In Memphis, more positive interactions were observed in the subgroup of women who possessed low psychological resources.87 Likewise, home - visited mothers in Early Head Start were rated as more supportive during play with their children than controls, though the effect was small.88 Maternal sensitivity was also examined in Hawaii Healthy Start, the Healthy Families evaluations in San Diego and Alaska, and the Comprehensive Child Development Program, though none identified significant effects.

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.

Maternal ability to maintain positive caregiving processes in this context may buffer the effects of violence on child asthma risk.

The supportive caregiving factors included in the current analyses — positive maternal - child activities and cognitive stimulation — have been associated with the development of optimal child self - regulation abilities.26 - 29

At short - term follow - up, one study found no significant effect on the parent — child relationship.45 At medium - term follow - up, one study found significant positive effects on maternal acceptance (d = 0.58; 95 % CI 0.14 to 1.03), accessibility (d = 0.60; 95 % CI 0.15 to 1.04) and cooperation (d = 0.91; 95 % CI 0.46 to 1.37).50 At long - term follow - up, one study did not find a significant effect on the parent — child relationship.54

Homes with 4 or more children showed slightly higher odds of positive maternal depression screens than those with 1 child (OR, 1.32; 95 % CI, 1.11 - 1.57).

Studies of high intensity EBHV programs focused on at - risk families have found that these programs have positive impacts on maternal care, as demonstrated by increased maternal responsiveness, warmth / sensitivity toward the child, and maintaining focus on the child; subsequently improving the cognitive and social behavioral functioning of the child (Guttentag et al., 2014; Black et al., 2007).

Conclusions Remission of maternal depression has a positive effect on both mothers and their children, whereas mothers who remain depressed may increase the rates of their children's disorders.

* Opportunity to develop a HEALTHY ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIP with your child before your child is born * Learn BONDING TECHIQUES that ENABLE YOU to COMMUNICATE with your child BEFORE BIRTH * INTERACTIVE SUPPORT GROUP discussions to share your maternal experiences * Learn STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES to cope with difficulties that may arise throughout your Maternal Experience * Learn POSITIVE PARENTING and COMMUNICATION SKILLS to develop Healthy Relationships — PREVENT PROBLEMS * Be familiar with the MOST RECENT RESEARCH on pregnancy and child development * Learn and Practice PRENATAL MEDITATION TEmaternal experiences * Learn STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES to cope with difficulties that may arise throughout your Maternal Experience * Learn POSITIVE PARENTING and COMMUNICATION SKILLS to develop Healthy Relationships — PREVENT PROBLEMS * Be familiar with the MOST RECENT RESEARCH on pregnancy and child development * Learn and Practice PRENATAL MEDITATION TEMaternal Experience * Learn POSITIVE PARENTING and COMMUNICATION SKILLS to develop Healthy Relationships — PREVENT PROBLEMS * Be familiar with the MOST RECENT RESEARCH on pregnancy and child development * Learn and Practice PRENATAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUES

The increasing number of children in formal ECEC is largely attributed, on the one hand, to the convergence of research showing the positive influence of early education on school readiness and, on the other, to the rise in maternal employment, although even children of stay - at - home mothers are likely to attend some type of child care.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13

Prior research has documented an association between prenatal father involvement and positive outcomes for maternal and child health, including increased prenatal care usage, decreased smoking and alcohol consumption, and a reduction in low birth weight, preterm birth, and infant mortality.

Professionals educate and facilitate group discussions on maternal and infant health topics including breastfeeding, child development, family planning, goal setting, labor & delivery, positive parenting, safe sleep, and more.

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).

They address issues such as maternal and child health, positive parenting practices, safe home environments, and access to services.

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.

These studies suggest that positive relationships with infant child care caregivers may compensate for insecure maternal attachments.

However, there were agency - specific positive program effects on several outcomes, including parent - child interaction, child development, maternal confidence in adult relationships, and partner violence.

Specifically, a lack of a warm positive relationship with parents; insecure attachment; harsh, inflexible or inconsistent discipline practices; inadequate supervision of and involvement with children; marital conflict and breakdown; and parental psychopathology (particularly maternal depression) increase the risk that children will develop major behavioural and emotional problems, including depression and conduct problems.

«It's good that there have been some positive gains already made in areas like child and maternal health.

It will cover a review of MTB research results, including positive outcomes for secure attachments, parental reflective functioning, maternal life - course, and maternal and child health.

The results of this evaluation of the Early Start service showed that, despite clear benefits of the program for parenting - and child - related outcomes, as described in our earlier article, 1 there was no evidence to suggest that the program had a positive impact on a wide range of family - related outcomes, including maternal health, family functioning, family economic circumstances, and susceptibility to family stress.

A score of four, that is a positive relation to the child on all four items, was taken as showing good maternal attachment.

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.

These programs have been critical in improving maternal and child health outcomes in the early years, leaving long - lasting, positive impacts on parenting skills; children's cognitive, language, and social - emotional development; and school readiness.

In addition, reductions in maternal depression mediated improvements in both child externalizing and internalizing problem behavior after accounting for the potential mediating effects of improvements in positive parenting.

More specifically, they found positive associations in boys between maternal report of internalizing problems and hostile - competitive coparenting (r =.36, p <.05) and between self - reported child anxiety and hostile - competitive coparenting (r =.42, p <.05).

There were five measures: maternal warmth, described as the degree to which the mother demonstrates positive regard and emotional support for the child; maternal respect for autonomy, describing the degree to which the mother maintained appropriate control while providing the child the opportunity to negotiate what he / she wanted to do; maternal structure and limit setting, defined as the adequacy with which the mother established her expectations for the child's behavior and demonstrates a capacity for effective leadership that engenders child compliance; and synchrony / quality of assistance, described as the ability of the mother to assist the child's performance in a manner that protects the child's self - esteem and demonstrates that she is attuned to the child's needs.

Mother — child mutually positive affect, the quality of child compliance to requests and prohibitions, and maternal control as correlates of early internalization

Because the literature showed that maternal psychological distress increases with child sleep and behavioral disturbance, it was hypothesized that mothers» attendance at the program would have a positive effect on their psychosocial well - being and parenting satisfaction, while mothers who were in the waitlist control group would experience no change in maternal distress over the waiting period.