Sentences with phrase «social adjustment problems»

Biracial youth withAsian American heritage, especially male biracial part - Asian American adolescents and male biracial adolescents with Black heritage had more social adjustment problems than did other biracial adolescents.

Male biracial adolescents were more likely to have elevated social adjustment problems than biracial females.

Play therapy has been widely researched as an effective and developmentally appropriate method for working with children dealing with the following types of concerns, among others: depression, grief and loss, social adjustment problems, speech difficulties, trauma, hospitalization, reading difficulties, selective mutism, enuresis and encopresis problems, fear and anxiety, abuse and neglect, aggression / acting out behaviors, attachment difficulties, autism, chronic illness and disability, and parental separation or divorce.

Children who are peer - accepted or popular have fewer problems in middle and high school, and teens who are peer - accepted have fewer emotional and social adjustment problems as adults.

Opposing attitudes were found for two clusters: first, grouping practices (with educators of the gifted favoring ability grouping and middle school educators opposing such grouping) and second, social development (with only middle school educators seeing the «gifted» label as creating social adjustment problems).

Experiences of peer victimization can therefore have an effect on their social relationships, and lead to various psychological and social adjustment problems.

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Such a child is also likely to experience serious problems of social and emotional adjustment, for he senses that in his language deficiency the very foundations for his participation in the life of relation — and hence for having any life worth living — are threatened.

The biological fact of the numerical equality, or near equality, of the sexes favors the monogamous relation, and precipitates problems of social adjustment regarding the unmated where there is deviation from it.

Researchers assessed children's development using multiple methods and measured many facets of children's development (social, emotional, intellectual, language development, behavioral problems and adjustment, and physical health).

For instance where and how much will we invest to assist those schools will high multilingual, social (and emotional - adjustment) problems?

Such information is important because the development of social competencies during middle childhood has been linked to adjustment to schooling and academic success, while the failure to develop such competencies can lead to problem behavior that interferes with success in school (Bennett et al. 2003; Carlson et al. 1999; Farrington 1989; Fors, Crepaz, and Hayes 1999; Malecki and Elliot 2002; McCord et al. 2000; Najaka, Gottfredson, and Wilson 2001; O'Donnell, Hawkins, and Abbott 1995; Trzesniewski et al. 2006; Wentzel 1993).»

Young people who are victimised have a higher likelihood than do other young people of experiencing adverse health outcomes (Rigby, 2006, McGrath, 2006) and social adjustment health problems.

Analysing the sleep behaviour of children born in 2004 until the age of six or seven, Dr Williams asked motheers to report on any sleep, emotional and attention problems, while teachers were asked to report on social - emotional adjustment in the school environment.

(3) other advisory and individual or group counseling assistance to enable students to benefit from the curriculum, to help students develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, to help students who exhibit any attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment problems and to encourage parental involvement, provided that advisory assistance shall be provided by teachers or counselors, or by certified teaching assistants under the supervision of counselors or teachers, and that such individual or group counseling assistance shall be provided by certified or licensed school counselors or by certified or licensed school psychologists or certified or licensed school social workers in cooperation with school counselors; and

Mean - ends problem - solving skills, life stress, and social support as mediators of adjustment in the normative transition to high school.

Individual or group counseling for gifted children whose emotional problems are interfering with their social or academic adjustment.

As noted earlier, a lot of our problems are not technical, they are social (adjustment mechanisms) and economic (pricing, protecting the poor), and ideological, as the postings in Dot Earth and the behavior of the Bush Administration amply demonstrates.

Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve legal puzzles.»

Responsible to assist children with problems in social adjustments and provide support to parent in child nurturing problems

Common issues that clients of Family Service Worker deal with are poverty, substance abuse, unemployment, social adjustment, medical conditions, and mental health problems.

Observed and assessed student performance and kept thorough records of progress.Implemented a variety of teaching methods such as lectures, discussions and demonstrations.Established clear objectives for all lessons, units and projects.Encouraged students to persevere with challenging tasks.Set and communicated ground rules for the classroom based on respect and personal responsibility.Identified early signs of emotional, developmental and health problems in students and followed up with the teacher.Tutored children individually and in small groups to help them with difficult subjects.Taught after - school and summer enrichment programs.Established positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers and school administrators.Mentored and counseled students with adjustment and academic problems.Delegated tasks to teacher assistants and volunteers.Took appropriate disciplinary measures when students misbehaved.Improved students» reading levels through guided reading groups and whole group instruction.Used children's literature to teach and reinforce reading, writing, grammar and phonics.Enhanced reading skills through the use of children's literature, reader's theater and story time.Differentiated instruction according to student ability and skill level.Taught students to exercise problem solving methodology and techniques during tests.Taught students in various stages of cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development.Encouraged students to explore issues in their lives and in the world around them.Employed a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction textual materials to encourage students to read independently.

Results showed significant improvements in substance use (both alcohol and drug), trauma - related symptoms, suicide risk, suicidal thoughts, social adjustment, family functioning, problem solving, depression, cognitions about substance use, and didactic knowledge related to the treatment.

The CASP membership is comprised of individuals who work in school districts, and in private practice throughout the state, helping school personnel — teachers, administrators, and counselors — support student education and solve related learning, social, and adjustment problems.

Results: Fewer daily hassles and higher social support predicted fewer adjustment problems.

More importantly, stress tackling through problem - focused coping, along with seeking social support and positive thinking which were found significantly increased in this study, has been suggested to enhance psychological adjustment to the disease (McCabe et al., 2004).

sexually abused children as adults tend to have fewer social resources, have fewer social interactions, and have problems with social adjustment (Abdulrehman & De Luca, 2001).

Peer victimization is a risk - factor that contributes to a variety of internalizing and externalizing problems including lower self - esteem, higher levels of social anxiety, depression or aggression, deficiencies in social skills and adjustment problems.

Family structure — single motherhood in particular — has been identified in a number of studies as an important correlate of children's behavioural and social adjustment.18 Substance abuse, 19 genetic differences, 20 and exposure to early trauma21 are other possible factors that may account for the link between low family incomes and children's behavioural problems.

Therapy for adolescents and adults emphasizes evidence - based treatments for problems such as generalized anxiety, panic disorders, social phobias, major depression, dysthymia, bi-polar disorder, identity struggles (sexual, gender, life transition), and general adjustments to major life situations.

Older studies showed boys had greater social and academic adjustment problems than girls.

The two were matched up by Youth Assisting Youth, an organization that links «at risk» children aged 6 to 15 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioural or cultural adjustment problems with volunteers aged 16 to 24 who can help them.

Maternal depression is demonstrated to contribute to multiple early child developmental problems, including impaired cognitive, social and academic functioning.3 - 6 Children of depressed mothers are at least two to three times more likely to develop adjustment problems, including mood disorders.3 Even in infancy, children of depressed mothers are more fussy, less responsive to facial and vocal expressions, more inactive and have elevated stress hormones compared to infants of non-depressed mothers.7, 8 Accordingly, the study of child development in the context of maternal depression is a great societal concern and has been a major research direction for early childhood developmental researchers for the past several decades.

Researchers assessed children's development using multiple methods and measured many facets of children's development (social, emotional, intellectual, language development, behavioral problems and adjustment, and physical health).

Results indicate for Study 1 significant improvements were shown in overall adjustment, family adjustment, relationship with parents, number of offenses, social competence, and number of problems at home.

Such problems often result in significant impairments in the individual's emotional, social, academic, and occupational adjustment.

Parental depression has extensive consequences on family life and on offspring social adjustment and mental health in childhood and in later life, depression and anxiety being the major psychiatric problems [5, 19, 39].

Amy delivers cognitive behavioral therapy and other evidence - based treatments for adults, adolescents and children with a wide range of emotional, behavioral, and adjustment difficulties, such as anxiety, depression, grief and loss, acute stress, social adjustment, ADHD and relationship problems.

I specialize in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for a variety of issues including: generalized anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, phobias, trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, attention - deficit / hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), Behavior problems, and general adjustment issues.

It is well established in the literature that conduct problems are multi-causally determined and reflect the aggregate effects of social, family (including genetic), individual, peer and other factors that act in combination to influence and determine levels of behavioral adjustment in childhood and adolescence.

Because early adolescence is not only a period of major physical change for girls, but also a time in which peer relationships become increasingly significant, a key question linking these two aspects of development is whether signs of pubertal maturation are related to one's social reputation among peers and, furthermore, whether such reputational factors might help us understand why early maturing girls display emotional adjustment problems.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Children with early onset conduct problems whose parents received The Incredible Years parent treatment program when they were 3 - 8 years were contacted and reassessed regarding their social and emotional adjustment 8 - 12 years later.

Prospective associations between peer victimization and social - psychological adjustment problems in early childhood.

Results also indicated that at follow - up, PMTO treatment produced benefits to children's adjustment assessing behavior problems, depressive symptoms and social skills.

Children from dissolved families generally have more internalizing and externalizing problems, lower academic achievements and poorer social adjustment, compared with children from intact families (Frisco et al. [2007]; Størksen et al. [2006]; Sun and Li [2002]-RRB-, and the negative association between parental divorce and adjustment persist into adulthood (Amato and Sobolewski [2001]; Størksen et al. [2007]-RRB-.

Studies demonstrating the efficacy of PMT interventions show improvements in parental perceptions and parenting skills, improvements in children's social skills and school adjustment, and reductions in behaviour and attention problems.66, 67 PMT interventions are associated with large effect sizes, 68 the effects often generalize to a variety of home and community settings, 69,70 they are maintained over time, 71 and are associated with high levels of consumer satisfaction.72 PMT has been successfully used with two - biological - parent families, step - parents and single parents.

[30] When comparing such children to the children of opposite - sex parents there tends to be no difference «on measures of popularity, social adjustment, gender role behavior, gender identity, intelligence, self - concept, emotional problems, interest in marriage and parenting, locus of control, moral development, independence, ego functions, object relations, or self esteem.»

The aims of the project are to (1) develop a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems, (2) evaluate implementation feasibility and initial efficacy of the intervention in a pilot study, (3) develop and refine measurement methods for assessing Latino individual family processes, and (4) test an integrative theoretical model that hypothesizes how social and acculturation contexts, family stress processes, and parenting practices are linked to predict Latino youngster adjustment.

Finally, social anxiety and behavioral inhibition in infancy and early childhood may contribute to difficulties in peer relationships and adjustment problems of an internalizing nature such as loneliness and depression.2, 3,4

Additionally, Lynne has completed training pertaining to O.C.D, panic disorders, social anxiety, major depressive disorder, shopping addictions, anger management, personality and adjustment disorders, PTSD, Bi-Polar Disorder and various other mental health or social problems or concerns.

I have worked as a school Social Worker since 1992, helping students of all ages and their families deal with emotional, behavioral, and academic issues, such as ADHD, learning problems, conduct disorders, peer relationships, and adjustment issues.