Given the importance of social functioning in adolescence, psychologists and other health professionals should be alert to
social difficulties among those with chronic illnesses, and these adolescents should be encouraged to participate in social activities.
For instance, student support deans may consult with professors experiencing behavioral or
social difficulties among their students or may assist in mediating housing issues when conflicts arise.
Not exact matches
The «Critical incidents
among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are:
difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and
social support,
difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,»
among others.
Academic problems are common
among abused children, as are
difficulties with concentration and
social interactions.
Misuse and addiction is a key contributing factor to the leading causes of death
among teens and leads to negative health,
social, and behavioral outcomes including physical and mental health problems, and
difficulty achieving success in school and in the workplace.
It has long been recognized that
social interactions are
among the most troubling
difficulties for those with Asperger's syndrome and many programs have addressed them in multiple ways.
In preschool and school - age children,
social withdrawal, negative peer relations, academic
difficulties, and depression are more common
among neglected children relative to abused victims.
Children of depressed mothers also are more likely to have insecure attachment with their mothers, experience high
social withdrawal, have poor communication and language skills, perform poorly on cognitive tasks, and show more disruptive behaviors across developmental periods.2 Particularly
among low - income families, financial
difficulties and related resource scarcity increase the detrimental impacts of maternal depression on the children's adjustment, the mother's health status, and the family's functioning as a whole.3
She continued: «An evaluation of the KidsMatter Primary pilot program finalised in 2009 showed that the initiative was successful in boosting
social and emotional wellbeing
among children and in reducing the numbers at risk of mental health
difficulties.
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.
What is the extent and nature of
social, emotional and behavioural
difficulty among Scottish schoolchildren around the age they enter primary one?
This report investigates the extent and nature of
social, emotional and behavioural
difficulties among Scottish school children around the age they enter primary one, and shows which children are most likely to have these
difficulties.
What is the extent and nature of
social, emotional and behavioural
difficulties among Scottish school children around the age they enter primary one?
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.
Promoting
social and emotional competencies and intervening in cases of
difficulty very early in life seems particularly effective for fostering positive experiences
among children.
Objective To examine the relationships
among negative attributions of friend and peer reactions to diabetes management in
social situations, anticipated adherence
difficulties, friend support, diabetes stress, and metabolic control.
Difficulties with friendships and
social participation are well documented
among children with ADHD and those with externalizing behaviors [20].
As adolescence is a period marked by significant biological, cognitive, emotional, and
social changes (Holmbeck et al., 2006), researchers should attend to the implications of negative affect and adjustment
difficulties among those with diabetes for metabolic control.