Sentences with phrase «psychological health increases»

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Breastfeeding should be continued for at least the first year of life and beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child... Increased duration of breastfeeding confers significant health and developmental benefits for the child and the mother... There is no upper limit to the duration of breastfeeding and no evidence of psychological or developmental harm from breastfeeding into the third year of life or longer.»

Interventions are known to increase the chances of harm to the physical and psychological health of mothers and babies.

Throughout the world, physical punishment is associated with increased psychological maladjustment and mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, as well as drug and alcohol abuse.

Break your life - long habit of self - criticism and reap the benefits of increased happiness, reduced stress, and improved psychological health.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

Capacity building within primary health care and justice services needs to address psychological trauma, increase resilience and recovery through support groups, trauma counselling and improvement to mental health policies.

The most significant control variables indicated an increase in the expected psychological distress score among those who were younger, female, in fair or poor personal health, had at least one chronic health condition, were current smokers or did not average the recommended range of seven to nine hours of sleep per day.

«Even modest increases in psychological distress are noteworthy for both researchers and policy makers since we know that even small increases in stress can impact health.»

Although an increase in knowledge is important, programs need to be able to contribute to actual behavior change,» said De La Rue, «It is well established in the educational and psychological research literature and in public health, that changes in knowledge and attitude are not associated with reductions in actual behavior.

Lastly, increased systemic inflammation seen during ageing is also apparent in chronic infections such HIV or cytomegalovirus, 10,15 obesity7 and individuals enduring chronic psychological stress.16 Similarly, the main features of immunosenescence are apparent in many of these conditions, including decreased antibody responses, increased infections, malignancies and also incidences of inflammatory associated disorders such as cardiovascular disease.7, 10,15,16 Inflammation and premature immunosenescence are, therefore, prevalent features of many common conditions of modern life, such as obesity and stress, and could have negative health consequences for large proportions of society well before old age is reached.

She is a national advisor to the Department of Health for Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies for people with medically unexplained and long term conditions.

The predictive nature of genetic testing poses a risk to the psychological health of children who are at increased risk for disease onset as adults.

â $ œTheater of Warâ $ is an interactive program intended to increase awareness of post-deployment psychological health issues, disseminate information regarding available resources and foster greater family, community, and troop resilience.

From improving your heart health to increasing your lung capacity to the psychological effects of going on a nice long run, you should never neglect cardio completely.

«Some of the health conditions documented to be associated with shift work include an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, a number of psychological and mood disturbances, reproductive problems and most recently the evidence related to cancer was evaluated.

As we mentioned above, regardless of your motives and goals, whey protein is an excellent way to speed up the effects of your training by stimulating muscle growth, increasing strength and contributing to greater fat loss, while also enhancing your health and well - being by reducing the risk of prostate and colon cancer, strengthening the immune system and promoting psychological balance and stability.

Ashwagandha — It is an ingredient that helps in increasing semen volume as well as improving your psychological health.

It is recognized that a syndrome of increasing stress and psychological symptoms is not restricted to the traditionally highly stressed groups of junior hospital doctors, but may affect senior hospital consultants, general practitioners and other health professionals.

'' Increasing amounts of research have demonstrated that various supplements may enhance overall physical prowess, health, and offer quicker recovery in the face of corporal or psychological extremes.»

By eating more bananas, you can thus increase your vitamin B6 level, which leads to more production of serotonin, which then lowers the risk of depression and improves your mental, brain and psychological health (15).

However, if I said eating more bananas can increase serotonin and directly impact your brain, mental and psychological health, it wouldn't be all that accurate.

These practices are associated with a number of physical and psychological health benefits such as increased positive emotions, improved sleep, mental and physical stamina, improved relationships, bolstering the immune system, and reducing the impact of certain health conditions.

Students who have parents deployed to a war zone are more vulnerable to a range of psychological, emotional and social issues, including an increased level of stress and anxiety, health problems, behavioural disorders and academic under - achievement.

This increase in concern among school leaders correlates with a recent Department for Education (DfE) research finding that young people's health and wellbeing was worse in 2014 than in 2005; girls in particular recorded higher levels of psychological distress.

According to the American Psychological Association, stress can have serious health consequences, increasing someone's chances of serious conditions such as heart disease and depression.

Improved medical assessment and research on the economic and physical health consequences of psychological illnesses has resulted in increased compensation.

Tom Tyler has also discussed how implementing procedural justice prinicples can lead to increased physical and psychological health of employees in large organizations in his paper, «Mechanisms of Legal Effect: Theories of Procedural Justice.»

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Once the paradigm shifts to an AB - PA diagnostic model, the CPS system will increasing be receiving suspected child abuse reports from mental health professionals with a confirmed DSM - 5 diagnosis of V995.51 Child Psychological Abuse.

The risks of ordinary therapy to alienated children not only includes increasing psychological harm but may now include medical / health ramifications in the form of consequences from what is referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

Our therapists employ evidenced - based techniques to explore your values, aid you in goal achievement and increase psychological health.

In this way companies can invest in prevention thus increasing the psychological resources needed to maintain employee health and wellness.

Mothers most commonly reported that their children were in the care of relatives (65 %) with 11 % reporting that their child was in the child protection system.15 Disruption to a child's living arrangements, including separation from parents and siblings, can result in psychological and emotional distress.16 17 A recent systematic review and meta - analysis of 40 studies that investigated child outcomes when either parent was incarcerated found a significant association with antisocial behaviour (pooled OR = 1.6, 95 % CI 1.4 to 1.9) and poor educational performance (pooled OR = 1.4, 95 % CI 1.1 to 1.8).18 Other research indicates that children of incarcerated mothers are at risk of increased criminal involvement, mental health issues, physical health problems, behavioural problems, 19 child protection contact20 and poorer educational outcomes.21

Increased referral and improved access to evidence based e-mental health psychological interventions will assist 45,000 people over five years.

They join an ever - increasing number of other health organisations that have publicly stated their support for marriage equality and / or opposition to the plebiscite, including for example a broad coalition of LGBTIQ organisations, Victorian AIDS Council, cohealth, Drummond Street Services, Indigenous Allied Health Australia, The Australian Sociological Association, Relationships Australia, Mental Health Carers NSW / ARAFMI, MIND Australia, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Medical Students Association, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, among many, many ohealth organisations that have publicly stated their support for marriage equality and / or opposition to the plebiscite, including for example a broad coalition of LGBTIQ organisations, Victorian AIDS Council, cohealth, Drummond Street Services, Indigenous Allied Health Australia, The Australian Sociological Association, Relationships Australia, Mental Health Carers NSW / ARAFMI, MIND Australia, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Medical Students Association, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, among many, many oHealth Australia, The Australian Sociological Association, Relationships Australia, Mental Health Carers NSW / ARAFMI, MIND Australia, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Medical Students Association, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, among many, many oHealth Carers NSW / ARAFMI, MIND Australia, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Medical Students Association, Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, among many, many others.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

The struggle to meet the increasing demand for psychological therapies, particularly during financial downturns, has driven interest in how therapies can be delivered more efficiently and effectively.3 Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) is a rapidly advancing field that has been recommended within National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines for depression.4 Proponents of cCBT have highlighted increased access for patients and the potential of these treatments to empower patients, 5, 6 while others have been sceptical that therapy can work in the absence of a therapeutic relationship with a professional.7

Higher stress exposure and perceived stress during pregnancy have been linked to GDM and / or higher glucose levels in women.43 — 45 Psychological stress and negative life events can be associated with higher salivary cortisol levels during pregnancy, which might relate to higher glucose levels.46 Higher depression scores early in pregnancy also increase the risk for GDM.9 47 On the other hand, social support has been shown to be protective regarding mental health and depression in particular.9 48 49

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

The study results revealed that as the child's problem behaviors increased, parent's psychological acceptance decreased, resulting in an increase in parent's mental health problems.

Such realities underscore the increased risk to psychological health, given the added burden faced by these children and adolescents.

Specifically, when people perceive that their romantic relationship is marginalized, not only do they report worse physical and psychological health [1] and less commitment to their relationship [2], but they also have an increased likelihood of breaking up in the next year [3](see here for a more detailed summary of some of this research).

Parenting programmes are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as evidence - based interventions for several child psychological problems including for parents of children with ASD8 and children with intellectual disability.9 Group - based parent programmes can be effective in reducing behavioural problems in children with ASD, 10 improving dysfunctional parenting styles, 10 increasing parents» ability to facilitate their children's development of communication skills11, 12 and increasing children's vocabulary.11 Group parent programmes also have the added benefit of providing social support for the parents.13 This is especially important given that parents of children with ASD are more likely to experience depression and stress, particularly parents of young children and of children with high levels of behavioural problems.4 — 6 Therefore, group interventions show promise as a valuable resource to help parents.

Problems with communication, specifically non-verbal cognitive ability, are a strong predictor of externalising behaviour problems.3 Children with ASD exhibit more severe internalising and externalising behaviours than non-ASD children, as well as a high prevalence of aggressive behaviour.3 These behavioural challenges can often cause caregivers more distress and mental health problems than the core ASD symptoms.4, 5 Increased child behaviour problems and parental (especially maternal) psychological distress compared with children without autism is established early in life — by the time that children are aged 5 years.6 These co-occurring, behaviour problems are of concern in early childhood because of the importance of these early years for longer term child developmental outcomes.7

Research on positive emotions variables has increased vastly over the last years due to the role that these variables play on psychological health.

Results indicated improved mental health scores, decreased psychological distress scores, and increased social support scores.

In addition, as mental health care gains parity with physical health care under the Affordable Care Act, demand for psychological services may increase.

Whereas adolescents from democratic households reported the most favorable health outcomes, adolescents from authoritarian, overprotective, and psychologically controlling families (all characterized by relatively high levels of psychological control) showed an increased risk for poor perceived health over time.

CPS is not going to know what to do about the increasing number of Child Psychological Abuse reports they're receiving from mental health professionals.

Chronic psychological distress may place parents at increased risk of marital disruption, family dysfunction, and for a number of physical and mental health conditions.