Sentences with phrase «relationships by reducing stress»

Jeremiah Gibson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who works with couples and families to create fulfilling, happy relationships by reducing stress and improving communication and intimacy.

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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
How to manage misbehavior (and reduce teacher stress) by building the strong relationships preschoolers need
Clinical psychologist Amanda P. Williford offers two strategies for teachers to manage behavior problems — and reduce the stress these problems cause — by building strong, positive relationships with students.
Using curriculum provided by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard, leaders guide parents through biweekly workshops that focus on reducing stress, improving responsiveness of relationships, and building core life skills.
As a therapist, I collaborate with you in finding balance and fulfillment in your life by reducing stress, overcoming trauma, navigating transitions, improving communication, and building healthier relationships.
An article by Andrew Garner in Pediatrics supports Bornstein's contention that a healthy and emotionally supportive parent - child relationship reduces the risk for toxic stress, and highlights the ways that policy interventions can improve child outcomes by mitigating the toxic stress children experience.
The Child Contact Service (CCS) can reduce stress by providing a safe and supportive way for children to move between separated parents and to maintain a relationship with the parent they do not live with and with other family members.
By practicing these two steps and liberally applying mindfulness to your interactions, you can greatly reduce the damage of this kind of chronic stress to your relationship — and save yourself and your partner from going nuts.
How will you reduce the stress in your life that is caused by your relationship?
Couples come together to focus on their relationship by learning how to stay in tune with one another, reduce stress, and begin a more positive journey towards parenthood.
While some couples attempt to deter these negative outcomes by concealing their relationship, concealment exasperates negative consequences, and leads to reduced commitment, increased substance use, risk taking behaviors, and negative somatic symptoms relating to stress (Lehmiller, 2009, 2012).
Parent education programs help reduce conflict by building better communication, developing closer relationships between parents and children, reducing stress and allowing for a better adjustment throughout the different stages of divorce or separation.
By helping families meet these basic needs, the Community Services League helps reduce the stress and worry of financial and home instability, so family members can focus instead on building positive relationships, planning a future for their children, and strengthen their ability to cope.
Because relationship conflict reduces teamwork quality [1] and is an important interpersonal stressor associated with group work [13]; [14], we build on the differential exposure - reactivity model to argue that personality influences both the engagement in relationship conflict (stress exposure) as well as the coping strategies mobilized to deal with the stress triggered by it (reaction to stress).
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