Sentences with phrase «reducing youth mental health»

Results indicated that MST - CAN was significantly more effective than EOT in reducing youth mental health symptoms, parent psychiatric distress, parenting behaviors associated with maltreatment, youth out - of - home placements, and changes in youth placement.

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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

Therefore, in order to reduce rates of behavioural and mental health problems among children and youth, broad based community and family intervention strategies, that encourage breastfeeding amongst other strategies, are likely be the most effective approaches.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

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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.»

Counseling services have proven effective at preventing youth suicide, and as a part of a comprehensive physical and mental health program, counseling has been shown to reduce violence in schools and in communities.

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Using Evidence to Accelerate the Safe and Effective Reduction of Congregate Care for Youth Involved With Child Welfare (PDF - 527 KB) Chapin Hall & Chadwick Center (2016) Highlights the steps necessary to reduce the use of congregate care as a needed placement, ensure youth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for yYouth Involved With Child Welfare (PDF - 527 KB) Chapin Hall & Chadwick Center (2016) Highlights the steps necessary to reduce the use of congregate care as a needed placement, ensure youth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for yyouth are screened quickly and properly for mental health status, and broaden the scope of community - based treatment options for youthyouth.

Reviews and meta - analyses of the prevention of substance abuse (Gottfredson & Wilson, 2003; Lochman & van den Steenhoven, 2002), violence and antisocial behavior (Fagan & Catalano, 2013; Wilson, Lipsey, & Derzon, 2003), poor mental health (Greenberg et al., 2001; Hoagwood et al., 2007), and positive youth development (Catalano, Berglund, Ryan, Lonczak, & Hawkins, 2004) have shown that both universal and targeted prevention programs can substantially reduce the rate of problem behaviors and symptoms, as well as build protective factors that reduce further risk in child and adolescent populations.

Providing greater access, early identification, effective and appropriate mental health services to children and youth will help reduce the need for more expensive services, such as emergency rooms and juvenile detention, and better ensure success in school and life.

Resources in this section focus on educating children, youth, and families about the harmful effects of substance use; highlight prevention and early intervention strategies to reduce the impact of substance use disorders; and point to evidence - based programs that address both substance use disorders and mental health.

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.»

Assist children alleged to be delinquent or unruly and their families to access needed services identified with the assistance of a mental health and substance abuse screening conducted by the Juvenile Court Youth Service Officer or other juvenile court staff, thereby reducing recidivism and increasing diversion of children from the juvenile justice system.

Reducing parental anxiety using a family based intervention for youth mental health: A randomized controlled trial

Parental involvement was reported as increasing, effectiveness for pro-social youth development (Catalano et al., 2002 ***; Durlak et al., 2007 ***), universal interventions to promote mental health (Wells et al., 2003 ***; Adi et al., 2007a ***), stress and coping interventions (Adi et al., 2007a ***), interventions to reduce violence and bullying (Adi et al., 2007b ***; Blank et al., 2009 ***; Farrington and Ttofi, 2009 ***) targeted approaches to prevent mental disorders (Greenberg et al., 2001 **; Shucksmith et al., 2007 ***) and conduct disorder (Waddell et al., 2007 **).