Sentences with phrase «programme improved behaviour»

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FRED — a four - week programme you can run with fathers of children in any year group — has been shown to improve children's reading accuracy, comprehension and rate of reading; their writing; and their behaviour.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Dr David Armstrong, PwC partner and one of the authors of the independent report said the review provided evidence that the activities of the Achieving Schools programme were effective: «If we focus on wider outcomes, such as improving self - esteem and confidence, and interventions that seek to address poor behaviour, these can contribute to achieving emotional intelligence in children and young people.

Pupils at six Bridgend county primary schools have improved their behaviour and learnt how to be nicer to each other thanks to programme delivered by children's charity Barnardo's.

Recently, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said that «leadership is absolutely critical» in improving behaviour.

Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning programmes, which focus on improving student behaviour and attitudes, and on the ethos of the school

Universal programmes which seek to improve behaviour and generally take place in the classroom.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said that «leadership is absolutely critical» in improving behaviour.

Do SEL programmes significantly improve participants» skills, attitudes, behaviours and academic performance?

Most of these dogs improve significantly with a behaviour modification programme which includes an enrichment package.

A need to improve efficiency and skill within service - dog programmes has motivated the desire to understand the genetic contribution to canine behaviour in working dogs.

The activities will include programmes, classes, counselling or guidance sessions that may assist a person in establishing, maintaining or improving contact and activities that may, by addressing violent behaviour, enable / facilitate contact.

Elaine McCann with her daughter Chloe who took part in the Preparing for Life, parenting mentoring programme in North Dublin which was found to dramatically improve children's IQ, health and behaviour.

Intervention Group - based parent training programmes that help parents to manage children's behaviour and improve family functioning, relationships and psychosocial health.

A comparison of the effectiveness of three parenting programmes in improving parenting skills, parent mental well - being and children's behaviour when implemented on a large scale in community settings in 18 English local authorities: the Parenting Early Intervention Pathfinder (PEIP).

Qualitative evidence indicated an increase in access related to ICDP activities such as the removal of cost barriers to medicines; removal of transport barriers to attend services; improved cultural safety in general practices; support and assistance from ICDP workforce for Indigenous people to access healthcare services; and more community programmes / resources to support healthy lifestyle choices and health - seeking behaviours.

The Family Links Nurturing Programme (FLNP; http://www.familylinks.org.uk/nurturing/index.htm) focuses on family relationships as well as behaviour management and may be better placed to improve educational and health outcomes in the context of universal provisional than the primarily behaviour management programmes.

Aspects of parenting with an adverse effect on health are surprisingly common in all social groups.12 The content of parenting programmes which could maximise health is therefore somewhat different from that of those which aim to improve behaviour.

The Fast Track prevention programme improved classroom atmosphere and peer reported behaviour problems

Group based parenting programmes, run both by professionals and by parents, are becoming increasingly popular in the UK and a range of different programmes are available.10 Four recent systematic reviews, one focusing entirely on group based programmes, 11 and three covering these programmes within wider reviews of mental health promotion and behaviour problem prevention12 — 14 have provided evidence that group based parenting programmes are an effective and cost effective way to improve parenting, and that such changes have a beneficial effect on children's mental health and behaviour.

It would appear that there is a need to develop alternative or additional strategies or programmes to improve anxiety, hyperactivity, and prosocial behaviour.

Review of a 16 - week training programme for foster and kinship carers to help them improve the way they deal with difficult behaviour.

At 1 year, the preventive programme led to improved outcomes for child social cognition and reading (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.54, p ≤ 0.04); child peer relations and social competence (effect sizes 0.27 to 0.28, p < 0.02); parenting behaviour (effect sizes 0.23 to 0.32, p ≤ 0.03); and child aggressive and disruptive behaviour (effect sizes 0.26 to 0.31, p ≤ 0.02) compared with no intervention; the effect sizes are shown for outcomes with ≥ 80 % follow up.

In children at high risk of developing long term antisocial behaviour, the Fast Track preventive programme improved some measures of social, emotional, behavioural functioning, and academic skills at 1 year

Programmes to improve parenting are effective in reducing antisocial behaviour in children under 10; adolescents are far harder to treat

This review provides evidence that group - based parenting programmes improve childhood behaviour problems and the development of positive parenting skills in the short - term, whilst also reducing parental anxiety, stress and depression.

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.

However, the potential of universal prevention in early childhood to improve mental health remains largely unexplored.2 5 7 We previously published short - term outcomes at toddler age11 of the first cluster randomised trial of a truly universal early parenting programme, Toddlers Without Tears, designed to be offered to all parents in the community and aiming to prevent externalising behaviours using anticipatory guidance before any developmental onset.

Participants in the Incredible Years programme reported improved children's behaviour and more positive classrooms and home life, according to the results of randomised controlled trials by the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

The Doodle Den programme also made a positive impact on improving concentration and reducing problem behaviours in school, according to findings from the randomised controlled evaluation conducted by the Centre for Effective Education at Queen's University Belfast.

These programmes improve family functioning, organization, communication and interpersonal relationships and have been found to have multiple positive outcomes for children and adolescents including decreased alcohol and drug use, increased child attachment to school and academic performance, decreased child depression and aggression, increased child social competence and pro-social behaviour and decrease d family conflict.

There is strong evidence that behavioural parenting programmes improve caregiver - child relationships, reduce child problem behaviour, and prevent physical and emotional violence against children.

Existing research points to many valuable outcomes of parenting programmes including improved maternal psychosocial health (Barlow and Coren, 2000), improved relationships (Grimshaw and McGuire, 1998; Smith, 1997) and reduced child behaviour problems (Barlow, 1999; Patterson et al., 1993; 2002b).

Various interventions have been used to treat conduct disorder including behaviour therapy, residential treatment, drugs, family therapy, multisystemic therapy and programmes which aim to improve parenting.

Programmes that strengthen family relationships and improve parenting skills are considered to be among the most effective strategies for addressing youth problems, such as delinquency and substance abuse.23, 24 Studies have shown that parent interventions can decrease negative disciplinary behaviour in parents and increase the use of a variety of positive attending and other relationship - enhancing skills to improve child behaviour.27 — 29

Could scale - up of parenting programmes improve child disruptive behaviour and reduce social inequalities?

After - school programmes succeeded in improving youths» feelings of self - confidence and self - esteem (0.34), school bonding (positive feelings and attitudes towards school, 0.14), positive social behaviours (0.19), reduction in problem behaviours such as aggression, non-compliance and conduct problems (0.18) achievement test scores (0.18), school grades (0.11) and school attendance (0.10).