Sentences with phrase «psychological health risk»

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If so, what health risks are you worried about and how would they outweigh the psychological benefits of the more frequent se.x?

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

The health of hundreds of patients is put at risk by lack of dietary advice and psychological support is often unavailable.

Childhood bullying may lead to long - lasting health consequences, impacting psychosocial risk factors for cardiovascular health well into adulthood, according to a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

The RISK researchers examined mental health trajectories, in particular whether those women had returned to their level of psychological functioning from before the storm.

«A number of adolescents are both victims of cyberbullying and perpetrators of cyberbullying, but victims are at higher risk for psychological and behavior health problems, like substance abuse, after six months of bullying.»

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.

«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.

«Shortened telomere length and reduced telomerase predict a host of health risks and diseases, and new findings suggest they may be regulated in part by psychological stress, stress appraisals, and well - being.»

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.

Tossing and turning not only causes women more psychological distress, it also raises their insulin and inflammation levels — risk factors for compromised health, found a 2008 study of 210 people led by Edward Suarez at Duke University.

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).

She suggests looking at gut health as a factor in mental health; she explores how psychological issues can be approached without the use of drugs; and she discusses the risks and benefits of decreasing medication.

Disabled / Special Health Needs: The imbalanced nature of physical and psychological power can often leave disabled students at an even greater risk for being bullied.

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

where a lawyer believes upon reasonable grounds that there is an imminent risk to an identifiable person or group of death or serious bodily harm, including serious psychological harm that substantially interferes with health or well - being... where it is necessary to do so in order to prevent the death or harm.

Furthermore, recent court rulings are holding employers accountable for the psychological health of their employees and placing responsibility on businesses to adequately and effectively deal with psychosocial risk factors that manifest in the workplace.

Her previous work within the mental health field has also allowed her to gain insight and experience into cases concerning the failure to section and undertake an adequate risk assessment and treat psychological disorders.

The Member Assistance Program (MAP) provides resources including a health risk assessment, information on stress, depression, anxiety, separation / divorce, and psychological challenges, and peer counselling.

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).

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

The xTEND project enabled the establishment of a unique set of mental health - related data from two large community samples across rural and urban regions of New South Wales in which to explore the role of community and interpersonal networks, adversity and depression as potential risk factors for suicide and poor physical and psychological outcomes.

In addition to the normal developmental challenges of adolescence, young people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at risk of a range of negative psychological outcomes including depression, behavioural problems and lower health - related quality of life.

Consequently, little is known about not only whether resilience directly affects partners» psychological distress but also whether resilience can function in protecting partners» mental health even in adversity, such as encounters with risk factors shown in current evidences.

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

With a psychological evaluation, you can learn if there are mental health diagnoses, level of risk for re-offending, if you can reunify with your children, if you are fit for duty, meet criteria for disability, if there are hardships placed upon you or family members due to immigration, and I provide expert witness testimony.

To address this issue, we used data from a large sample of health maintenance organization members to examine the ACE — IHD association and to assess whether both established traditional and psychological risk factors that are related to ACEs mediate this relation.

This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at high risk in the general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological disHealth Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological dishealth.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological distress.

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 Close the Gap (CTG) Campaign calls for the proposed changes to be scrapped on health grounds, noting that racism is linked to anxiety, depression, poor mental health, psychological distress, suicide risk, diabetes, smoking, alcohol and substance misuse and emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Main outcome measures: Mother — child interaction, maternal psychological health attitudes and behaviour, infant functioning and development, and risk of neglect or abuse.

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.

Psychological Evaluation Services: Psychosexual Risk Evaluation (Pre-Trial, Post-Conviction / Pre-Sentence, Post-Sentence and for DCFS); Sex Offender Evaluation (State and Federal Cases); Psychosexual Evaluation (Sexually Problematic Behaviors / Addiction); Violence Risk and Threat Assessment (Workplace, K - 12, University, and Private Individuals); Mental Health Certification for Firearm Possession Evaluation (IL - FOID); Fitness for Duty Evaluation (Public Safety Personnel and Corporate Employees); Independent Medical Examination (IME); and General Evaluation (Mental Status, Cognitive Functioning, Psychopathology, Substance Use).

Jennifer's primary research interests examine relationship behaviors that put people at - risk for physical and psychological health problems.

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

Although the dynamic interplay between various risk and protective factors in refugee psychological health is not fully understood, there is widespread agreement that of those pre-migration factors that pose serious risk, trauma exposure is the single most identified (Berman, 2001).

The new provision requires abortion counseling to include information on any research showing that some women (based on their «physical, psychological, demographic or situational» characteristics) may be at higher risk of negative mental health outcomes associated with an abortion.

Third, certain risk and protective factors appear to exist that temper or aggravate poor psychological health.

Sexual Health and Sexual Freedom: AASECT believes that healthy sexual activity is always ethically conducted, freely chosen, individually governed, and free from undue risk of physical or psychological harm.

This includes considering issues such as family violence, safety, equality of bargaining power, risks to children, the emotional and psychological health of participants and any other issues that they think may make FDR unsuitable.

Dr. Jennifer Harman - Science of Relationships articles Website / CV Dr. Harman's research examines relationship behaviors that put people at - risk for physical and psychological health problems, such as how feelings and beliefs about risk (e.g., sexual risk taking) can be biased when in a relationship.

A total of 301 people completed a self - report questionnaire, which measured psychological distress, mental health lifetime risk factors and socio - demographic data.

We examine alterations in biological stress regulatory systems; alterations in the neural regulation of stress responses; and expression of genes related to stress responses, both as latent indicators of impending health risks and as indicators of psychological and biological stress - reactive processes that may accelerate those risks.

Researchers looked at various Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's include (a) psychological abuse, (b) physical abuse, (c) sexual abuse, (d) substance abuse by a household family member, (e) mental illness of a household family member, (f) spousal or partner violence, and (g) criminal behaviour resulting in the incarceration of a household member) and how they are related to adulthood health risk behaviours and disease outcome.

Survivors of abuse, who are at heightened risk for developing mental health issues like depression, are likely to encounter one or more of the following psychological issues:

I was referring to providing home - based services to families from low socioeconomic backgrounds who were also characterized by child maltreatment, mental health difficulties, or other psychological risks.

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.

intensive mobile youth outreach services providing intensive outreach mental health case management and support to adolescents who are showing substantial and prolonged psychological disturbance, and have complex needs that may include challenging, at - risk and suicidal behaviours

The defendant is then evaluated by The Program to determine whether the mental health criteria is satisfied; evaluations include The Program's preferred interview and psychological assessment battery, which examines symptom validity, psychiatric symptoms, cognitive ability, and risk factors.