Sentences with phrase «promote adaptive behavior»

Our bodies respond to it by releasing chemicals and activating brain circuits that promote adaptive behavior.

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empower families to respond to their child's behavior in a manner that acknowledges past trauma but promotes the learning of new, more adaptive reactions to stress.

These optimal outcomes include increased IQ, increased adaptive and social behaviors as well as promoting the normal development of the brain and behavior that optimizes a child's potential to participate meaningfully in the community into their adult years.

These results complement cellular and physiological data and show that dopamine at encoding promotes the prioritization of events in memory, with implications for understanding the role of memory in adaptive behavior.

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child housed at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University is a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration committed to closing the gap between what we know and what we do to promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

The mission of the Council is to synthesize and communicate science to help inform policies that promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child is a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration committed to closing the gap between what we know and what we do to promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child is a multidisciplinary, multi-university collaboration committed to closing the gap between what we know and what we do to promote successful learning, adaptive behavior, and sound physical and mental health for all young children.

Play therapists strategically utilize play activity to help children express difficult thoughts and feelings, learn more adaptive behaviors when emotional or social skills deficits are present, promote cognitive development and provide insight and resolution to inner conflicts or dysfunctional thinking.

Discuss how neural process evaluates risk in the environment and triggers adaptive neural circuits which promote either social interactions or defensive behaviors

Findings of this investigation suggest that decreasing the stressors associated with parenting, particularly for fathers, may be an effective means of promoting more adaptive changes in parenting behaviors over time.

Taken together, these findings suggest that although family conflict may negatively impact the parenting behavior a caregiver utilizes in the short term, such conflict may serve to promote a restructuring of the parent — child relationship over time in adaptive ways within healthy functioning families (Cooper, 1988; Holmbeck, 1996).

Despite early diagnosis and intervention, it is possible that better adaptive behavior due to higher intelligence level can deteriorate to some degree when the caregiver is clinically depressed and does not promote the deaf child's cognitive and behavioral development.