Sentences with phrase «psychological health of our children»

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.

The psychological health of our children is a priority, but denial of the truth exposes our children to even greater risk.

The complex role that culture plays in the psychological health of child and adolescent refugee and asylum seekers is highlighted by Rousseau, Drapeau and Corin (1997).

This paper outlines major international research findings of the past ten years reflecting knowledge gathered about the psychological health of child and adolescent refugee / asylum seekers.

Whether you are seeking advice about common childhood or teen stressors or developmental transitions, or your concern is related to the psychological health of your child, LEAP Clinic can help.

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The American Psychological Association notes that women who experience miscarriage are vulnerable to a whole host of other mental health issues such as postpartum depression, general anxiety / depression, and difficulty caring for existing children.

Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.

The authors of the report say that «obesity represents a significant threat to the present and future health of children and leads to a wide range of physical and psychological consequences.

She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Society for Infant Studies, the American Psychological Association, and the World Association for Infant Mental Health.

Regular physical activity in children and adolescents promotes physical and psychological health and fitness, and improves some aspects of academic performance.

This level of membership is open to anyone whose job impacts the physical, psychological, or emotional health of children and families.

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.»

Speakers include: Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire — Having a baby in prison: women's need to love, care and breastfeed their baby Dr Amy Brown, Associate Professor Child Public Health, Swansea University - Examining psychological, social and cultural barriers to responsive breastfeeding Helen Crawley, First Steps Nutrition Trust - The constituents of formula milk: busting the myths.

Week 15 — An overview of the significance of the mother / infant bond and the impact on the parent / child relationship and the psychological health of mother and child if this bond is interfered with.

Many children develop diabetes and other health issues, to say nothing of the emotional and psychological impact of going through childhood and adolescence with an obvious target for peers to pick on.

Research has shown that when a child forms a strong attachment with a stable and loving caregiver in the first five years of life, his psychological health will be influenced for the better.

Forming an attachment with your child is not only important to the psychological health of your baby, but it is also one of the deepest and most unique bonds you can form with another individual.

When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code of conduct than children since child bullies do not have control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position of teacher or coach.

Breastfeeding Older Children can make a critical difference for children and for the physical and psychological health of ouChildren can make a critical difference for children and for the physical and psychological health of ouchildren and for the physical and psychological health of our world.

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Dr. Kendall - Tackett is a Research Associate at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in both the Divisions of Health and Trauma Psychology, Associate Editor of the journal Psychological Trauma, and Editor - in - Chief of Clinical Lactation.

Your health care providers will try to make your child comfortable and provide relief from symptoms (like pain and shortness of breath) and will talk to you about ways to receive emotional, psychological and spiritual support.

Working with your children to build resilience and manage their emotions can be beneficial for the psychological health of the whole family.»

On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay parents and their children, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation.

The Academy was an anchor organization on an amicus brief for the case signed by child health and education organizations, outlining harms to children whose parents face deportation and arguing that lifting the circuit's injunction would provide millions of children with the family stability and security essential to their psychological, physical and emotional well - being.

Mental health doesn't sound that important, compared with the physical safety of mother and child, but when you consider the affects of post natal depression, psychosis and PTSD, as well as bonding issues, you start to see that the effects of poor psychological / mental health support in traditional maternal hospitals is a major factor pushing women towards less safe birthing options.

Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects on the competence, efficacy and psychological health of the parents, as well as on the behaviour of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of substantiated child maltreatment, abuse injuries and out - of - home placements.51

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

Many times this can affect the mental health or social development of the child and may even leave lifelong psychological scars.

Recent conversations about mental health in the university — depression, loneliness, suicide — have largely flailed to consider in any holistic way the distance imposed on families within such systems, as life - partners live apart for months and often years at a time, with one spouse shouldering the burden of childcare alone while the other manages the psychological pain of loneliness and distance from the children and partner.

When the way we are working starts interfering with normal functions such as sleeping, eating, relationships, social interactions, and physical health, «we know we've tipped the balance,» says Cullen, a past chair of the Division of Education and Child Psychology at The British Psychological Society.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

Children as young as 4 years old may reap better health from altruistic giving, a behavior that tends to be less common among kids from high - income families, according to new research on the nature and nurture of altruism published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

«The findings provide us with a new understanding of how children's altruistic behaviors, family wealth, and physiological health are intertwined,» says psychological scientist and lead researcher Jonas Miller of the University of California Davis.

Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child's behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

«Loss of control eating is related to a variety of psychological health concerns, including depression and anxiety,» said Richard E. Boles, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist in the Bariatric Surgery Center at Children's Colorado.

Turns out there are some health and psychological benefits of coloring, a fact that children may instinctively know (like so many other life lessons we should learn from our kids!).

Many of the activities focus on health issues, like water and sanitation, diarrheal disease and preventing accidents, but Child - to - Child has also been successful in meeting the social and emotional needs of children such as addressing the prevalence of psychological problems including PTSD.

McCartney's research has been published in numerous academic journals including Child Development (2000, 1997), American Journal of Public Health (1999), Merrill - Palmer Quarterly (1997), and Psychological Bulletin (1990).

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Every child deserves to have their health checked, or to have the services of a speech pathologist or social worker or psychological intervention — those things should be provided.

Indeed, the National Institute of Health finds that childhood anxiety is on the rise and is now the most prevalent psychological disorder in children and adolescents.

Promoting Student Achievement through Improved Health Policy is a quick primer of the CDC's «Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child» model, which highlights 10 important areas for connecting health and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvHealth Policy is a quick primer of the CDC's «Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child» model, which highlights 10 important areas for connecting health and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvhealth and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvhealth education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvhealth services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvement.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

Toward Dynamic Adaptation of Psychological Interventions for Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health

Maybe you are not aware of this, but some children do not sleep enough simply because they have some health and psychological problems that many of us are not aware of.

This exhibition focuses on the food the children ate and reveals a connection not only to questions of economy, nutrition and health, but also to the beliefs and science that informed what the children were fed and the physical and psychological impact.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

The appeals court in the Gove case held that a parent places their physical, mental, and psychological condition before the court when they participate in a child custody case as a result of the legislature specifically including the parties» mental and physical health as an issue the court is required to consider.