Sentences with phrase «psychosocial problems in»

Induced abortions and birth outcomes of women with a history of severe psychosocial problems in adolescence.

Use of information about maternal distress and negative life events to facilitate identification of psychosocial problems in children.

Short comprehensive instruments that are appropriate to measure psychosocial problems in children of preschool age are limited [17].

Use of the pediatric symptom checklist to screen for psychosocial problems in pediatric primary care: a national feasibility study.

Psychosocial problems in refugee children exposed to war.

Bower, P., Knowles, S., Coventry, P.A. and Rowland, N. (2011) Counselling for Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems in Primary Care.

The Physician Belief Scale and psychosocial problems in children: a report from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings and the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network.

Use of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist to Screen for Psychosocial Problems in Pediatric Primary CareA National Feasibility Study.

The objective of the Bachelor of Physician Assistantship programme is to train graduates who will possess the ability to evaluate the health status of an individual, diagnose and treat acute illness as well as life saving interventions, manage chronic diseases, deliver preventive care and counsel individuals on psychosocial problems in independently or in collaboration with a physician.

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Her particular areas of interest are the neurobehavioral and health consequences of sleep problems in children, pharmacologic treatment of pediatric sleep disorders, and cultural and psychosocial issues that affect sleep.

While Duncan and Magnuson indicate that family income has a preponderant causal effect on both children's cognitive and economic development and on their academic achievements, they also suggest that economic improvement will not, in itself, necessarily resolve psychosocial development and behavioural problems.

Children who grow up in low income environments may be at greater risk of having psychosocial or behavioural problems.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

In repeated RCTs with samples ranging from clinically referred middle - class preschoolers to low - income Head Start preschoolers at risk for psychosocial adjustment, significant improvements have repeatedly been found one to two years following the intervention in promoting children's prosocial adjustment and reducing children's problem behaviourIn repeated RCTs with samples ranging from clinically referred middle - class preschoolers to low - income Head Start preschoolers at risk for psychosocial adjustment, significant improvements have repeatedly been found one to two years following the intervention in promoting children's prosocial adjustment and reducing children's problem behaviourin promoting children's prosocial adjustment and reducing children's problem behaviours.

The majority of sleep problems are psychosocial in nature and tend to co-occur.

«We know toxins in the environment can contribute to disease, but this study suggests that kids can experience physical and mental health problems from exposure to psychosocial «toxins,» too,» she said.

The Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology review notes that the tentative definition of IGD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM - 5) is a good starting point for diagnosing the condition, with the most stringent criteria including a build - up of tolerance (more time needs to be spent playing computer games), loss of control, giving up other interests, and excessive use despite clear - cut psychosocial and health - related problems.

Published in the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, «Development and Initial Evaluation of a Telephone - Delivered Behavioral Activation and Problem - solving Treatment Program to Address Functional Goals of Breast Cancer Survivors,» covers two studies looking at feasibility and potential efficacy.

The assessment will obtain data on environmental and psychosocial factors that may account for socioeconomic, racial and ethnic differences in problem behavior.

According to the Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, adults who engage in activities that challenge the brain are less likely to have memory problems as they age.

The purpose of this section is to continue the discussion of issues in developmental psychology by focusing on personality development The current study examines whether adolescents who report sexting exhibit more psychosocial health problems, compared to their non-sexting counterparts.

Another study, Increasing Identification of Psychosocial Problems: 1979 - 1996, published in the journal Pediatrics in June 2000, found the number of children identified with psychosocial problems nearly tripled between 19Psychosocial Problems: 1979 - 1996, published in the journal Pediatrics in June 2000, found the number of children identified with psychosocial problems nearly tripled between 1979 aProblems: 1979 - 1996, published in the journal Pediatrics in June 2000, found the number of children identified with psychosocial problems nearly tripled between 19psychosocial problems nearly tripled between 1979 aproblems nearly tripled between 1979 and 1996.

Matthew effects in children with learning disabilities: Development of reading, IQ, and psychosocial problems from grade 2 to grade

Preschoolers» Psychosocial Problems: In the Eyes of the Beholder?

Assisted primary health care providers in recognizing and treating mental disorders and psychosocial problems

• Highly skilled in providing direction to students and enable them to study independently • Well versed in utilizing various instructional equipment and Audio Visual Aids effectively to reinforce learning in the classroom • Proficient in designing and implementing supportive learning activities in collaboration with the teacher • Competent at handling and addressing behavioral problems in young learners and enhancing motivation to learn • Thorough understanding of various cognitive and psychosocial developmental milestones connected with child's age along with associated needs • Hands on experience in activity moderation, teacher's assistance and progress record keeping • Substantial knowledge of various behavior control techniques and strategies • Efficient in designing and executing individualized correctional programs • Proven ability to devise need based learning strategies for physically or mentally challenged children • Demonstrated skills in classroom organization, testing and evaluation • Track record of conducting reinforcement lessons in small groups, covering core subjects including English, math and basic sciences • Excellent skills in analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of designed program and changing the instructional strategies based on the learner's response and progress • Expert in maintaining updated and fully structured classroom bulletin boards to facilitate learning • Adept at determining Individualized learning goals for each student and gauging progress in learning • Well practiced in communicating home assignments to students, answering their queries regarding the same and marking the work done • Effective listening skills along with profound ability to communicate clearly with students, parents and teachers involved

Cultural psychiatry is concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the range of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.

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.

Prior research from both ASPN and PROS confirms the comparability of patients, clinicians, and practices participating in primary care networks studies with those identified in national samples.34 - 37 A survey conducted as part of the Child Behavior Study38 showed no difference in demographic factors, practice characteristics, or attitudes toward psychosocial problems among participating pediatricians and a random sample of primary care pediatricians from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Results of these studies have consistently demonstrated that about 1 of every 8 children seen in primary care have significant levels of psychosocial problems.

Transcultural Psychiatry provides a channel of communication for psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, and social scientists concerned with the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.

In relapse prevention pharmacotherapies for the treatment of addiction problems, the effects on outcome are modest compared with other influences (such as patient characteristics, active follow - up and social stability) 1 and complicated by the effects of psychosocial interventions that are always recommended alongside any prescribing.2

Proctor et al have provided an easily replicable psychosocial intervention to address the behavioural problems associated with depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment in nursing home patients.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experienceIn 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiencein 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiencein poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experienceIn families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiencein which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiencein military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiencein children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

As with other screening (developmental and behavioral, psychosocial) initiatives in practice, there have been perceived barriers to implementation, including lack of time, incomplete training to diagnose / counsel, lack of adequate mental health referral sources, fear that screening means ownership of the problem, and lack of reimbursement.36 However, since 2000, there have been many successful models of screening in primary care practices, including developmental and behavioral screening, maternal depression screening, and psychosocial screening.

Our findings are even more sobering because the prevalence of psychosocial problems among youth seems to be increasing.110, 111 The US Surgeon General reports that the unmet need for services is as high now as it was 20 years ago.112 Even youth who are insured often can not obtain treatment because few child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in poor and minority neighborhoods.113, 114

A method to improve the primary care pediatrician's ability to recognize and appropriately refer children with behavioral or psychosocial problems is to systematically screen all children with a standardized instrument designed for this purpose.16, 21 One such screening tool, developed by Jellinek and Murphy, 22 is the 35 - item Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), designed specifically for use by the pediatrician to screen for mental health problems in children ages 4 to 16 years in the primary care setting.

Only a limited number of well - validated screens suitable for use in primary care for broad screening of family psychosocial risk and family support and functioning are available, although a few show promise.54 — 56 There are screening measures for specific psychosocial stressors, such as maternal depression, and these have been shown to be feasible in pediatric settings.57, 58 Family screening for psychosocial risk within pediatric settings, however, raises a number of dilemmas, including concerns about liability and payment and who is responsible for an adult's well - being after a problem is detected.59

Early detection and treatment of family psychosocial risk may potentially avert the emergence of problems in the child.

The Physician Belief Scale (PBS) documents provider attitudes about delivering psychosocial treatment in primary care (eg, beliefs and feeling about treatment, service burdens).29 PCPs completed a Provider Practices Survey targeting changes in management and skill in addressing behavior problems and ADHD (α =.81 to 84) that was modified from a previous survey.30 The Mental Health SKIP (MH - SKIP) assessment examines changes in treatment obstacles, use of outside referral, and competency and effectiveness in delivering psychosocial services (α = 0.77).

While Duncan and Magnuson indicate that family income has a preponderant causal effect on both children's cognitive and economic development and on their academic achievements, they also suggest that economic improvement will not, in itself, necessarily resolve psychosocial development and behavioural problems.

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.

Nonetheless, the above evidence suggests that smoking status in treatment - seeking gamblers is an interesting and potentially useful indicator of the extent and breadth of psychosocial problems.

In addition, because past studies have focused primarily on whether poverty affects young children's problem behaviour, research is also needed to investigate the links between low family income and other psychosocial outcomes in childreIn addition, because past studies have focused primarily on whether poverty affects young children's problem behaviour, research is also needed to investigate the links between low family income and other psychosocial outcomes in childrein children.

Depression in young people is a problem with such pervasive features that one can find abnormalities in almost any domain (eg, cognitive, family) to justify any treatment.1 A great variety of psychosocial interventions have therefore been used with depressed children, including CBT, psychotherapy, and family therapy.

Research with young children has found that low family income and poverty are associated with a variety of psychosocial outcomes.1 - 13 To date, more studies have concentrated on the effects of income on problem behaviour1 -3,5-13 than on positive behaviour.2,4 - 5, 8 However, there is some evidence that income is associated with both types of behaviour in young children.2,4 - 5

A key policy question in this area of research is whether steps to redistribute income from richer to poorer families are more cost - effective than intervention programs designed to prevent or treat psychosocial problems.

Children who grow up in low income environments may be at greater risk of having psychosocial or behavioural problems.

Several of the most commonly identified risk factors in previous research were identified in this study, including being male, membership in a single - parent or stepfamily, 5 high levels of parent - reported childhood activity, 23,24 maternal mental health problems, 25 and a history of teenage parenthood.26 What is relatively novel about this report is the consideration of the joint effects of psychosocial risk factors, while controlling for multiple indicators of social class and the assessment of both accidents and illnesses in a large community sample followed prospectively since pregnancy.