Sentences with phrase «rates of emotional problems»

Her New York Times bestseller, The Price of Privilege, explores the reasons why teenagers from affluent families are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems.

Soaring rates of emotional problems among our young people are disturbing enough in their own right, but they are also harbingers of even greater problems as these children grow up to be university students, workers, partners and parents themselves.

Her New York Times best - selling book, The Price of Privilege, explores the reasons why teenagers from affluent families are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems.

Not exact matches

The affluence and power that permeate River Oaks bring with them expected problems of emotional breakdowns, divorce, substance abuse, and a high teen suicide rate.

At any rate it was a sudden clinching of the emerging solution of his emotional worries and intellectual problems.

Our nation faces serious challenges with our children and their parents with rising rates of depression, anxiety, aggression, abuse and other serious emotional and behavioral problems.

They tend to have better academic results, fewer emotional and behavioral problems, and lower rates of incarceration as they mature.

The authors state: «Contrary to expectations, those children who had not had previous professional attention for emotional or behavioral problems coslept more frequently than did children who were known to have had psychiatric intervention, and lower parental ratings of adaptive functioning.

The clearly emotional writer explains the problem with the cuts to the High Rate Mobility component of Disability Living Allowance.

The addition of occlusion therapy, or patching 1 eye, increases the response rate to 2 thirds, but not all individuals comply and people who do could experience reverse amblyopia or emotional problems.

• Troubleshooted a hemodialysis machine component which broke down mid-treatment, without letting the process affect the patient • Changed fluid removal rates and positioned the patient according to the demands of the dialysis procedure • Communicated concerns regarding emotional, medial and nutritional problems to the nurse on duty • Ascertained that all disposable apertures and supplies are properly disposed of at the end of the procedure • Cleaned, sterilized and maintained dialysis room and equipment according to standardized procedures

The CBCL, TRF and YSR are well evaluated rating scales for the assessment of a broad spectrum of child behavioral and emotional problems as perceived by parents and teachers respectively.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

Rates of adolescent depression appear to be rising1, 2 with the 1 - year prevalence suggested to be between 2 — 4 %.3, 4 Early treatment is important because adolescent depression has high levels of future morbidity including further emotional disorders, suicidality, physical health problems, substance misuse and problems in social functioning.4, 5

Even when a child or adolescent is well known in a pediatric practice, only 50 % of those with clinically significant behavioral and emotional problems are detected.23 Other investigators have found similarly high failure of detection rates ranging from 14 % to 40 %.22, 24 Surveyed pediatricians, however, overwhelmingly endorse that they should be responsible for identifying children with ADHD, eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, and behavior problems.26

Risk factors associated with placement disruption Research on individual child factors that increase risk for placement disruption shows that increased age and the presence and severity of behavioral and emotional problems are significantly related to higher rates of placement disruption (Pardeck, 1984; Pardeck, Murphy & Fitzwater, 1985).

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

In contrast, rates of parental concerns about emotional, developmental, or behavioral problems were much higher; for example, 41 % of parents had concerns about learning difficulties and 36 % about depression or anxiety.

The most recent National Survey of Children's Health mirrored results of previous surveys regarding rates of diagnosed emotional, developmental, and behavioral problems, including an escalating diagnosis of autism among children.

Random effects models were constructed to examine the influence of brain development (both absolute brain volumes and growth rates) on children's maladaptive behavioral and emotional problems as measured by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).

Thus, the high rate of emotional and behavioural problems shown later may be a consequence of vulnerability deriving from a combination of genetic risks and seriously adverse experiences in early life.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Research from the United States reported prevalence rates as high as 9 % for anxiety disorders and 2 % for depression among preschool children.4 A recent study in Scandinavia also found 2 % of children to be affected by depression, but rates for anxiety disorders were much lower (1.5 %).5 While most childhood fears and transient sadness are normative, some children suffer from emotional problems that cause significant distress and impairment, limiting their ability to develop age - appropriate social and pre-academic skills and / or participate in age - appropriate activities and settings.

The Longford Westmeath Parenting Partnership made Triple P available free to all parents of children under the age of eight to reduce prevalence rates of clinically elevated social, emotional and behavioural problems in children, estimated to be one in five children in Ireland.

Is the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in 2 — 3 - year - old children with developmental delay higher than that for children developing at an expected rate?

This rate appears to be reasonable, based on an expectation that 15 % of infants and toddlers would have clinically significant social - emotional / behavioral problems and / or delays in competence (Briggs - Gowan et al., 2001; Roberts et al., 1998) and that an additional 15 % would have problems in the at - risk range that, while meriting follow - up, are unlikely to require clinical referral.

According to Post-Crescent, the increasing rate of divorce highlighted the persistence of psychological effects on children, citing more emotional and behavioral problems.

The Foundation for Accountability screener identified children with special health care needs.24 The Child Behavior Checklist for children 1.5 to 5 years of age measured parents» perceptions of their child's behavioral problems with regard to emotional reactivity, being anxious or depressed, sleep, attention, and aggression.25 Parents rated their child regarding how true (often, sometimes, or never) each item was at the time of the interview.

It was hypothesized that the BITSEA would (1) have acceptable test - retest and interrater reliability and (2) demonstrate acceptable construct - related, predictive, and discriminant validity, relative to a more lengthy measure of social - emotional / behavioral problems and independent ratings of child problems and competencies.

BITSEA / P correlated significantly with evaluator ratings of social - emotional / behavioral problems and negatively with competence ratings.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

The results suggest that the control condition was significantly less effective in retaining cases than the two treatment conditions, which were apparently equivalent in reducing behavioral and emotional problems as well as in improving psychodynamic ratings of child functioning.

As young as preschool, children from food insecure homes have high rates of social and emotional problems such as aggression, anxiety, depression, and hyperactivity.

Empirical studies have documented prevalence rates of emotional and behavior problems among preschool children as high as 20 to 40 percent, such that four to seven children in any given Head Start classroom may require additional assistance in managing their emotions and behavior.

At the same time, the control group showed no significant improvements in measures of social — emotional competence, prosocial skills, and coping, and actually showed higher ratings of problem behaviors at the posttest.

We obtained parent ratings of children's behavioral and emotional problems at Time 1, and self - ratings of behavioral and emotional problems at Time 5 and Time 6.

As for ODD, studies have shown, as early as preschool age, that, compared to children with low levels of CU traits and ODD, those with higher levels of CU traits have more severe ODD problems, showing deficits in processing emotional stimuli, such as fearful faces, having lower levels of fearfulness and anxiety, manifesting insensitivity to punishment and displaying physiological hypoarousal, such as low stress reaction — lower heart rate at rest and during reactivity to emotional stimuli (Fanti, 2016).

Social and emotional learning programming also results in reduced problem behavior, improved health outcomes, a lower rate of violent delinquency, and a lower rate of heavy alcohol use.

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; [19, 20] is a 25 - item parent - rating scale of emotional and behavioral problems as well as abilities and strengths in children aged 3 — 16 years.

Therefore, given that only these four parameters were significantly associated with CU traits and ODD problems (teacher rate), we further conducted four separate multiple hierarchical regression analyses, one for each of these parameters, in order to examine the contributions of CU traits, anxiety, ODD - related problems and their interactions on attentional processing of emotional faces as indexed by these parameters.

A study in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences found «The most satisfied couples were those who did not avoid discussion of relationship problems and who rated their partners high in EI [Emotional Intelligence].»

Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.

There was no main effect of age on teacher rated emotional symptoms or conduct problems.

This study, from a sample of ∼ 22 000 children and their mothers and fathers representative of the entire US population, demonstrates that living with fathers with depressive symptoms and other mental health problems is independently associated with increased rates of emotional or behavioral problems among school - aged children and adolescents.

Prevalence rates of behavioral and emotional problems and disorders in early childhood are similar to prevalence rates in older children [1, 2, 3, 4].

This checklist gathers parents» ratings of a child's competencies and behavioral / emotional problems.

This study revealed an independent association between fathers» mental health problems and depressive symptoms and increased rates of child emotional and behavioral problems among a large nationally representative sample of children in the United States.

Moreover, parent — child dynamics were predictive of chronic behavior problems as rated by parents in middle childhood, but not emotional problems.

In contrast, data on the association between higher rates of child emotional and behavioural problems and poorer parental psychological well - being are more consistent (Estes et al. 2013; Lecavalier et al. 2006; Peters - Scheffer et al. 2012; Hartley et al. 2012).

Similarly, the literature on the high concordance between mothers» and fathers» mental health and the transmission of depression within families might suggest that mental health problems in general, and depression in particular, when occurring in both mothers and fathers in the same family, is associated with even higher rates of child emotional or behavioral problems.27, — , 29