Sentences with phrase «significant behavior problems for»

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Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Most of these behaviors are considered typical development for toddlers, but, sometimes, the issues can stretch a little farther and be a significant problem for toddlers.

With a recent poll showing that nearly 90 % of New Yorkers believe that unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government a month before former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos are sentenced for public corruption, the governor and legislative leaders have an obligation to New Yorkers to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos scheduled to be sentenced next month for public corruption crimes, and a recent poll showing that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government, Albany's political leaders have an obligation to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform, the good government groups said.

For example, students who were exposed to Hurricane Katrina evacuees with significant behavior problems experienced short - term increases in school absences and discipline problems themselves.

Children not helped to become less aggressive during school years are at significant risk for future life problems, including a higher likelihood of anti-social behavior and legal problems as adults.

While a book can help you begin to understand significant behavior issues, it is not a substitute for hands - on help when you have a serious behavior problem.

The idea of being the pack leader over your dog has also been thoroughly discredited for quite a while now, and doesn't play any significant role in the treatment of behavior problems in pet dogs.

Mattar said there are three causes for which people do not care about the environment: «They don't know their behavior has significant impacts in society and the environment; they know that, but they don't realize those are going to have an impact in their own lives; they know both those, but they find the problem too big for them to make a difference».

7/2011 to Present Benchmark Human Services, Nantucket, MA Behavior Analyst • Interview patients regarding their present, past and future aspirations in a bid to understand their motivations • Take notes to refer to during the assessment period • Measure specific influences such as environment and family life to determine cause of behavioral problems • Create psychological profiles for each patient to determine extent of behavior problems • Devise and implement programs to address behavior problems • Act as part of a coordinated care team to provide oral medication to patients • Monitor patients» progress and note down any significant changes for better or worse • Assist patients with chemical dependency issues to come to terms with their addiction through counseling services • Provide a one - on - one to patients with criminal backgrounds • Assist crime investigations by creating psychological profiles of criminals to determine motive and mode of oBehavior Analyst • Interview patients regarding their present, past and future aspirations in a bid to understand their motivations • Take notes to refer to during the assessment period • Measure specific influences such as environment and family life to determine cause of behavioral problems • Create psychological profiles for each patient to determine extent of behavior problems • Devise and implement programs to address behavior problems • Act as part of a coordinated care team to provide oral medication to patients • Monitor patients» progress and note down any significant changes for better or worse • Assist patients with chemical dependency issues to come to terms with their addiction through counseling services • Provide a one - on - one to patients with criminal backgrounds • Assist crime investigations by creating psychological profiles of criminals to determine motive and mode of obehavior problems • Devise and implement programs to address behavior problems • Act as part of a coordinated care team to provide oral medication to patients • Monitor patients» progress and note down any significant changes for better or worse • Assist patients with chemical dependency issues to come to terms with their addiction through counseling services • Provide a one - on - one to patients with criminal backgrounds • Assist crime investigations by creating psychological profiles of criminals to determine motive and mode of obehavior problems • Act as part of a coordinated care team to provide oral medication to patients • Monitor patients» progress and note down any significant changes for better or worse • Assist patients with chemical dependency issues to come to terms with their addiction through counseling services • Provide a one - on - one to patients with criminal backgrounds • Assist crime investigations by creating psychological profiles of criminals to determine motive and mode of operation

Parents reported significant reductions in child behavior problems for both internalizing and externalizing behaviors, as well as in total number of reported behavior problems.

There were no statistically significant treatment effects found, however, for internalizing problem behavior, such as depression or anxiety, or for clinical recovery rates for children in the clinical range.

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

There were no statistically significant program effects for the nurses on women's use of ancillary prenatal services, educational achievement, use of welfare, or their children's temperament or behavior problems.

Using the pre-later model, both conditions revealed significant reductions for all 5 outcomes, but DOCC (versus EUC) revealed significantly greater reductions in behavior, hyperactivity, and internalizing problems (Table 6).

Number of Children Who Are Positive (as Measured by CBCL and PSC) for Clinically Significant Behavior Problems

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 probleFor 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 problefor 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 problefor 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 problefor 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.

Two studies have identified groups of girls exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and early adolescence and having an increased risk for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending for such girls may be stronger than that among comparable boys and that such early problem behavior in girls should be considered a significant warning sign of potential future problems.62

Researchers, for example, recently subjected parent education programs that use video playback of parent - child interactions to a meta - analysis.72 They found that these programs have a sizable positive effect on parent behavior and a modest but significant effect on children's behavior — no less for children referred to clinics for conduct problems than for children referred from other sources.

[21] One promising, peer - led intervention for conduct disorder reported significant reduction of child behavior problems and improvement in parenting competencies.

Self - control appears to be similarly beneficial in this domain: for instance, having high self - control underlies one's ability to keep promises, a behavior that may foster trust between partners.4 High self - control in relationships would seem to discourage interpersonal problems, such as attentiveness to alternative partners, which may lead to lower relationship satisfaction and extra-relationship affairs.5 Perhaps if people like Tiger Woods and Bill Clinton had higher self - control, they would have stayed faithful in their relationships — and avoided significant public embarrassment.

However, the association remained significant after controlling for these behaviors as well as a history of psychological problems, use of psychotropic medications, current depressive symptoms, and other covariates.

Based on age and sex findings, cutpoints were set to identify approximately 25 % of children in the at - risk range for problems and 10 % to 15 % as low in competence, a higher threshold than for problems, due to an expectation that significant social - emotional delays will be less common than significant problem behaviors.

In addition, a number of mean differences between Russia and U.S. with respect to temperament and behavior problem scores, as well as significant interactions between culture and gender for Fear and Low Intensity Pleasure, emerged.

Results indicated that a significant reduction in parenting stress occurred for mothers as a result of the intervention and parents reported increased empathy for child problem behaviors.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of the Parenting Young Children Program (PYC)[now called the Early Pathways Program (EPP)-RSB- for very young children with behavior problems, most of whom also had significant developmental delays and were living in poverty..

Parents of children with disruptive behavior problems, including oppositional and defiant and conduct problems, externalizing and internalizing behavior problems, and delinquency; families and children at risk for developing the above problems; families undergoing significant transitions; homelessness

Comparisons between the Early Start and control series over the 36 - month follow - up period revealed that families in the Early Start program showed significant benefits in the areas of improved utilization of child health services, reduced rates of hospital attendance for injury / poisoning, increased preschool education, increased positive and nonpunitive parenting, reduced rates of severe parent / child assaults, and reduced rates of early problem behaviors.

Second, while this study was not designed to test hypotheses regarding reasons of comorbidity, the results provide support for the notion that common risk factors underlie the development of disruptive behavior problems insofar as they showed a significant overlap in the early stages of antisocial behavior.

Significant reductions in anxiety symptoms and behavior problems were found for those children who reported clinically elevated levels of anxiety at pretest.

Analyses showed a significant reduction in child problem behavior and improvement in foster carers» depression levels for intervention families at follow - up, compared with control.

The current findings have significant implications for family - based intervention programs targeting CU traits and associated problem behavior.

Results revealed a significant increase in parental satisfaction, efficacy, and parenting knowledge and a reduction in child problem behavior for both the group and individual formats of the program.

Results indicated at 6 - month follow - up that compared to the waitlist control group, significant effects were found for measures of problem child behavior, dysfunctional parenting styles, and parents» confidence in the parenting role in the Level 3 Triple P Discussion Group.

Results showed significant levels of improvement in levels of conduct disorders, attention problems, anxiety and psychotic behavior, as well as improvements in family cohesion, but only for elementary school families.

Results include significant decreases in problem behaviors for those children who showed severe or moderate levels of behavior problems at the beginning of the program.

Significant reductions in anxiety symptoms and behavior problems were found for those children who reported clinically elevated levels of anxiety at pretest (n = 6).

No significant differences were found between groups for emotional problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, or prosocial behaviors.

For teacher - reported behavior problems, results showed that both parent training (PT) and teacher training (TT) led to a significant decrease from pre-test to initial post-test in classroom behavior problems when compared with the no - treatment control group.

No significant differences were found between the groups for teachers» reports of total behavior problems or for home observations of child deviance with mothers.

No significant differences were found among groups for parent - reported conduct - problem scores or for observer - rated negative child behavior.

However, there were mixed results on disapproval of misbehavior and substance use, and no significant differences found for petty misbehaviors or friends» problem behaviors.

Separate linear regression analyses for the preterm children with regard to mothers» reports of children's total problem behavior showed that gestational age was the most important predictor of children's problem behavior (β =.15, p =.016), accounting for a small but significant percentage of the variance (R 2 =.02 p =.016).

The R2 change for each step was significant, indicating that family conflict, temperament, and the interaction between family conflict and temperament contribute independently to the prediction of child behavior problems.

With regard to fathers» reports of children's total problem behavior, maternal smoking during pregnancy emerged as the most important predictor (β =.13, p =.036), accounting for a small but significant percentage of the variance (R 2 =.02 p =.036).

While the mechanisms responsible for behavioral maladjustment may derive from problems connected with prenatal or postnatal brain development (Breslau, Chilcoat, Del Dotto, Andreski, & Brown, 1996), research indicates that environmental conditions experienced by LBW / PT children, such as family conflict, add significant risk to the development of behavior problems (Adams, Hillman, & Gaydos, 1994; Miceli et al., 2000).

However, only for externalizing behavior problems a homogeneous data set was obtained, indicating that significant moderators were present with respect to overall and internalizing behavior problems.

For example, Van IJzendoorn et al. (1999), analyzing 12 studies, found a significant link between disorganized attachment and externalizing problem behavior.

All children in the current study presented with clinically significant levels of EBP pre-treatment, providing initial support that brief, intensive PT interventions may be helpful for children experiencing more severe behavior problems.

Results Statistical analyses yielded evidence for a significant reduction of disruptive problem behaviors (aggression, delinquency) that is more prominent in DBD children with high heart rate scores compared to patients with low heart rate scores.