Sentences with phrase «psychological interventions as»

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And, indeed, the most effective attachment - focused home - visiting interventions offer parents not just parenting tips but psychological and emotional support: The home visitors, through empathy and encouragement, literally make them feel better about their relationship with their infant and more secure in their identity as parents.

I believe that my mother actually suffered from post-partum psychosis as well as post-partum depression, and should have had serious medical / psychological intervention.

This may be the exception as opposed to the rule but, nonetheless, Rutter (1998), has found that developmental catch up following adoption after severe global privation will, in fact, occur in the younger child as long as families remain involved and provide developmental - psychological interventions.

As their nurse, the only thing I can offer is supplemental interventions and psychological support.

Other psychological interventions, including play therapy, cognitive therapy or cognitive - behavior therapy, have not been proven to work as well as a treatment for ADHD.

The EAET intervention was compared to both an educational intervention as well as the gold standard psychological approach in the field, cognitive behavioral therapy.

This finding also has implications for intervention work, since avoidance that is used as a coping mechanism is likely to further impair psychological functioning,» Valentino said.

«While there is evidence to support treatments for patients with active psychiatric disorders, interventions such as psychological first aid, psychological debriefing, crisis counseling, and psychoeducation for distressed individuals have not been adequately evaluated to determine whether they help or hurt in disaster settings.»

In addition, certain psychological interventions developed over the past few decades can often attenuate symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.

According to Professor Colver, «Clinicians should intervene early in childhood to ameliorate extremes of pain, psychological problems, and parenting stress, for which effective interventions are available... Attention should be directed to helping children with cerebral palsy, especially those who are more severely impaired, to maintain friendships with peers, and to develop new friendships as they move into adolescence

Further research is needed on larger patient groups to see if the psychological benefits of the intervention persist for a longer time — such as a month, which is the shortest time at which a PTSD diagnosis can be made.

Wrap this research up with 30 years of hundreds of psychological intervention trials, the study authors say, and you have a good case for promoting group therapy and stress reduction as a survival technique.

Although this study looked at college students, it's part of a growing body of research showing that this and similar strategies, known as wise psychological interventions, have an outsized impact on students of all ages.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

In addition to her research, Kate cofounded the first annual national conference on designing, implementing, and evaluating social psychological interventions through the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, directs the Lobel Undergraduate Research Fellowship program in the Psychology Department at Columbia, and serves as a Lead Teaching Fellow through the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning.

Psychological safety provides for the social - emotional well being of students and works to create positive school climates through measures such as asset development, bullying prevention, Positive Behavior Supports, and early identification and intervention for at - risk students.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

Noted for her ambitious interventions in public space, as well as her objects, films, photography, installations and ephemeral actions, Rajkowska's practice interrogates individual and collective bodies as politicised sites of historical, ideological and psychological conflict.

• Accompanied psychologist to cases • Provided preliminary support such as taking information and recording histories • Assisted in planning and implementing psychological intervention programs • Supported program development initiatives • Managed paperwork associated with managing intervention programs

Has gained a variety of skills such as medication administration, psychological intervention and back - up treatment scheduling through 5 + hands - on experience in caregiving arena.

• Assist the teacher in classroom activities while catering for emotional, psychological, social and cognitive needs of physically or mentally disabled students • Provide one to one tutoring and reinforce daily lessons in small groups • Identify weak areas of students and develop individualized lesson plans accordingly • Supervise the children during play and lunchtime • Inculcate strong moral and social values among the students to make them responsible citizens • Facilitate the teacher in conducting various classroom activities • Maintain all teaching aids in an organized manner • Devise need - based AV aids to facilitate teaching process • Assess multiple instructional strategies for effectiveness and change the teaching methodology as per requirement • Carefully record and gauge each student's progress and discuss the same regularly with teachers and parents • Encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities and boost their confidence in all possible ways • Communicate home assignments clearly, mark homework and test papers • Assist students in completing classroom assignments • Maintain daily attendance and early departure records • Discuss individual cases of individual needs and interests with teachers and parents of the student • Develop and implement targeted instructional strategies to cater for particular needs of each student • Observe students» behavior at playtime and chalk out a behavioral intervention plan to address any inappropriate, violent or disruptive behavior • Operate adaptive technological equipment single - handedly • Maintain complete confidentiality of student data • Aid physical, speech and rehabilitative therapists in their sessions and encourage the student to cooperate with them

About Blog Providing best - practice forensic psychology intervention & assessment The Forensic Psychology Centre (FPC) is a service that provides independent psychological assessment as well as treatment and training services for forensic and legal matters.

Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor

[3] The authorizing legislation for the property tax includes the following uses [RSMo 210.861.4]: (1) Up to thirty days of temporary shelter for abused, neglected, runaway, homeless or emotionally disturbed youth; respite care services; and services to unwed mothers; (2) Outpatient chemical dependency and psychiatric treatment programs; counseling and related services as a part of transitional living programs; home - based and community - based family intervention programs; unmarried parent services; crisis intervention services, inclusive of telephone hotlines; and prevention programs which promote healthy lifestyles among children and youth and strengthen families; (3) Individual, group, or family professional counseling and therapy services; psychological evaluations; and mental health screenings.

In 1993, Strayhorn, Strain, and Walker wrote The Case for Interaction Skills Training in the Context of Tutoring As a Preventive Mental Health Intervention in Schools, in which they studied a model of peer tutoring in psychological skills.

For eligible psychological interventions, we used the Cochrane Depression and Neurosis Group classification.21 For CAM, we were interested in any intervention that the non-profit patient advocacy group beyondblue listed as a «non-medical» intervention for treating depressed patients.24 Online supplementary file 1 lists the 87 eligible psychological interventions and the 56 eligible CAM interventions.

Studies of these two psychological interventions used waiting lists as control interventions.

The American Psychological Association (APA) further identifies counseling psychologists as engaging in individual, group, and family counseling and psychotherapy providing many services such as crisis intervention and trauma and disaster management while consulting with organizations and providing program evaluation and tracking client progress.

Most of the literature on psychological interventions is merely descriptive, and the few studies that include a control group usually compare intervention vs waiting list controls.5 - 7 This design does not control the effect of the time spent with the therapist or meeting other patients, which may be therapeutic in itself for some patients, as shown by the increasing popularity of self - help groups for bipolar patients.17

«The worst thing you can do is nothing,» he said noting psychological research showed people who harass or abuse others in public took lack of intervention as «endorsement or support».

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Question: Question 1: How effective are interventions to reduce psychological distress in people with cancer who meet a minimum threshold of distress, such as would be identified through screening programmes?

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

Resource - oriented psychotherapy focuses on current concerns and tries to strengthen personal skills in order to achieve set goals.37 Self - management therapy has a long tradition in the treatment of depression, 38 and elements such as behavioural goal setting or activity monitoring are frequently applied in blended interventions.39 40 Finally, psychoeducational cognitive - behavioural group therapy has recently been applied in a stepped care service model41 within the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.

Using common comparator as usual care would allow to indirectly compare home - based psychological intervention with home - based exercise intervention.43 Treatment effects for each study were estimated using a two - stage network meta - analysis.

Each of these applied aerobic exercise as a home - based exercise intervention but psychological therapies differed among them (PST in two studies, 37 38 CBT in one study30 and family therapy with bereavement counselling and social interventions in one study18).

For the pharmacological interventions, the control condition is always a pill placebo, while the psychological control conditions are waiting - list (WL), treatment as usual (TAU), psychological placebo or attention placebo or no - treatment (NT).

Much of the available review evidence only addresses predetermined categories of interventions (eg, group, 10 psychological, 11 media15), and do not address other potentially important parent and family support functions such as social support, chronic illness education and skill development or support with relevant common parenting issues.

Positive Psychological Interventions (also known as Positive Psychology Interventions - PPIs) are theoretically - grounded and empirically - validated instructions, activities, and recommendations that are designed to enhance wellbeing (Lomas, Hefferon & Ivtzan, 2014).

As noted in the Introduction to this Special Series (Cohen et al., in press), scholars have sought to document the evidence - based status of psychological interventions in the fields of clinical child psychology and pediatric psychology (Chambless & Ollendick, 2001; Spirito, 1999).

When implemented based in whole or in part on the recommendations of a mental health practitioner, these become experimental psychological interventions challengable as such because they are designed to accomplish an unethical and inappropriate purpose — what in actuality are political or legal demands unrelated to child well - being.

In those publications, a blend of psychological techniques was applied, with particular emphasis on hypnosis.19 20 24 25 In fact, there is considerable evidence for the effectiveness of hypnosis as an empirically supported clinical intervention in managing symptoms such as pain, 26 — 35 and also in promoting psychological well - being across a variety of illnesses and disorders.36 — 43 Among PWH, studies have shown that hypnosis can contribute to control pain and to reduce frequency and severity of bleedings and factor consumption.19 20 24 Concurrently, by promoting better disease management, hypnosis can contribute to better coping and less distress.24

This article over simplifies the complexity of Functional Family Therapy as an intervention for youth and their families who present with behavioural / emotional or diagnosed psychological disorders.

For psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Index - 1S, the effect of the Intervention on the trajectory of distress for patients was associated with participant educational attainment.

Areas of particular passion include: sleep disorders (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia - CBT - I, medication tapers, behavioral interventions for pediatric sleep disorders), chronic or severe health conditions (e.g. chronic tinnitus, fibromyalgia, heart disease, cancer, neurological conditions), and psychological conditions that have strong behavioral or physical symptomology, such as anxiety, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder and depression.

Patients had to fulfil the following criteria: a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, or delusional disorder according to criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edition, revised11; no evidence of organic brain disease; substance abuse not identified as the primary problem; age between 18 and 65 years; presence of persistent hallucinations or delusions, or both, for a minimum of 6 months and at least 1 month of stabilisation if they had experienced an exacerbation during this period; stable medication; no psychological or family intervention; their responsible medical officer had given permission for them to enter the study; no serious threat of violence towards the assessors; and they had given informed consent to participate.

First, the effect sizes are smaller both in absolute terms and in comparison to effect sizes reported elsewhere — for example, in the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence reported effects of 1.7 for waiting list versus trauma focused psychological therapies and 1.18 for other active interventions for PTSD.1 Second, there are problems with the small number of trials in key areas (for example, TAU / WL n = 5), with the combining of different outcomes from the same study in the meta - analysis and the failure to consider clinical as opposed to statistical significance.

Psychological issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, anger, or feelings of low - esteem have been treated effectively with cognitive - behavioral interventions.